Cook Shifts Vary | Rotating & Weekends

Job Description - Cook (Full-Time | Shifts Vary | Rotating Holidays & Weekends)

Job Description

Cook (Full-Time | Shifts Vary | Rotating Holidays & Weekends) - )

Prepare, cook, store and inventory food for patients, cafeteria, and catering as directed in retail and patient services. Perform serving duties in retail and patient services as assigned.

Minimum Education
High School Diploma or GED (Required)

Minimum Work Experience
1 year Related experience (Required)

Culinary

• Prepare food according to standardized recipes and production sheet needs to include portion control, garnishing and presentation.
• Continue to improve cooking skills through flexibility in assignments.
• Store leftovers and prep food using proper labeling and within time frames.
• Inventory food items as assigned.

Safety/Sanitation

• Maintain appropriate records of food temperatures, production, waste and usage.
• Maintain and ensure food safety standards.
• Maintain a clean, sanitary work environment throughout shift according to the standards of the department, hospital and regulatory agencies.

Communications

• Communicate to Management all food quality and availability issues, equipment status, customer and staffing issues.

Safety

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance.
• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation.
• Stop in the face of uncertainty and take time to resolve the situation.
• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication.
• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers.
• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance.

Organizational Commitment/Identification

• Anticipate and respond to customer needs; follow up until needs are met.

Teamwork/Communication

• Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior.
• Partner with all team members to achieve goals.
• Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions.

Performance Improvement/Problem-solving

Cost Management/Financial Responsibility

• Use resources efficiently.
• Search for less costly ways of doing things.

Safety

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance.
• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation.
• Stop in the face of uncertainty and take time to resolve the situation.
• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication.
• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers.
• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance.

District of Columbia-Washington

CN Hospital (Main Campus) 111 Michigan Avenue NW Washington 20010

Organization:
Children’s National Hospital

Position Status : R (Regular) - FT - Full-Time

Shift :
Rotating

Work Schedule : 40 Hours

Feb 4, 2026, 5:00:00 AM

42224 - 82430.4

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Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.