Early Head Start Cook - Montgomery County

## Description

Summary/Objective

The cook will perform all duties and responsibilities necessary for daily food service operations.

Essential Functions

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
• functions.
• ● Comply with CACFP/Head Start requirements
• ● Ensure nutritional meals are served to all children, parents, and staff
• ● Monitor kitchen supplies and food expenditures
• ● Maintain current and accurate records of all required documentation
• ● Ensures materials are provided to implement family style meals in the classroom setting
• ● Ensure the food service area is clean, neat, and attractive.
• ● Participates in assigned meetings, events, and training as required
• ● Ensure that a minimum of 15 clock hours of allowable professional development is completed
• annually.

Competencies

1. Ethics/Integrity
2. Attention to detail
3. Organizational Understanding
4. Professionalism
5. Problem Solving
6. Reliability
7. Tact

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibility

Work Environment

• This position operates in a professional center based environment. This role may occasionally require
• work within a classroom setting.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
• successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use
• hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance;
• stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift or
• move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision,
• color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

• This is a regular part time position. Days and hours of work are planned in advance and schedule is
• provided at the beginning of each program year. In order to meet the needs of the agency, permanent or
• temporary changes and/or modifications to the schedule may occur as dictated by management.

Travel

• Travel is primarily local during the business day, although out-of-area travel may be expected upon
• notice.

Required Education and Experience

High School Diploma/General Education Degree

Preferred Education and Experience

Food Service Certification

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

CACFP training

Additional Requirements

• Must have a valid Kentucky driver’s license, reliable transportation, and satisfactory background checks.
• Pass a pre-employment drug test and random drug testing as required. State required minimum vehicle
• liability insurance and uninsured motorist insurance. Any/all other testing or applicable checks required
• by local, state, or federal law.

AP/EEO Statement

• Gateway Community Action provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants
• for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color,
• religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation,
• gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
• This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement,
• promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Other Duties

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities,
• duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and
• activities may change at any time with or without notice.