This is a full-time position located in La Jolla, varied shift and schedule including weekend availability required.

Join the Scripps Health team and work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-centered healthcare. Receive endless appreciation while you build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations nationwide.

Why join Scripps Health?

AWARD-WINNING WORKPLACE:

• #5 in Fortune Best Workplaces in Healthcare 2023
• #78 in PEOPLE Companies that Care 2023
• #95 in Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for 2023
• Recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity in 2024
• Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.

Scripps Health provides what matters most: career growth, delivering superior care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits, and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand-in-hand. Scripps Memorial La Jolla has been one of Southern California's premier medical centers for more than 90 years.

Our Cook team coordinates, preps a volume production of meals for patients, cafeteria, catering/special events. Performs job functions to support the following Food Service operational systems; safe food handling, volume food production, menu development and modification, meal assembly and portion control, inventory management and infection control/sanitation. Follows established policies and procedures to ensure compliance with food and safety regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• 6 months of experience in quantity food preparation or graduation from an approved culinary program
• Food Handlers Card or ServSafe Certificate or able to pass Food Handlers Test given by verified manager or designee

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in quantity food preparation in healthcare
• ServSafe Certificate
• Formal culinary/quantity cooking education