Cook

Summary

This TERM position is located at the Phoenix Area Regional Treatment Center in Sacaton, Arizona. The cook is responsible for performing a wide variety of food services and cooking functions including food preparation, sanitation, and service duties. The cook performs tasks involving several steps, and routinely follows established patterns of work. The cook prepares items for regular and modified diets and identifies foods to be served on commonly prescribed diets.

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Duties

• Sets up and serves cafeteria lines and tray lines with hot and cold food items including breakfast items, entrees, vegetables, soups, sauces, salads, desserts, breads, hot and cold beverages, and condiments. Portions food items into standard serving sizes using proper utensils and containers, following established regular and modified diet menus. Reads and understands diet cards, menus, and serves appropriate food items for modified diets.
• Makes final check of assembled trays and nourishments prepared by lower grade food service workers. Refers diet and/or meal questions from the patient to the diet technicians.
• Assembles, weighs or measures ingredients and prepares food items such as eggs, breakfast meats, cooked cereals, sandwiches, grill items, broiled meats, vegetables, soups, sauces, gravies, pureed foods, salads, fruit cups, gelatins, convenience foods, and hot and cold beverages.
• Assembles and prepares patient nourishments, desserts, modified diet items, meat, fish and poultry. Stores food and supplies in accordance with established policies and procedures. As assigned, may order, receive, and store food and supplies. Operates a variety of powered and mechanical equipment such as mixers, steamers, ovens, fryers, coffee brewers, grills, ranges, dish machines, freezers, refrigerators, knives and scales.
• Transports soiled dishes to the dish room after meals. Cleans, sanitizes, and stores dishes, trays and silverware by setting up dishwashing area, filling dish machine tanks, maintaining dish machine water and detergent levels, loading, unloading, stacking, and storing dishes and silverware and cleaning dish machine inside and out.
• Monitors and records dish machine temperatures.
  
  

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

Must pass pre-employment examination.

Selectee may be subject to a probationary/trial period

ESEP appointees typically serve a two year trial period

U.S. Citizenship is required

Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959

This is a TERM position that is not to exceed 2 years with a 2 year extension available. The extension is at management's discretion.

This is a designated position covered by Public Law 101-630, requiring contact or control over Indian children. Due to this requirement, the agency must ensure that persons hired for these positions have not been found guilty of or pleaded nolo contendere or guilty to certain crimes.

Confidential Financial Disclosure Form required.

Measles and Rubella immunization required for selectees born after 1957 and seasonal influenza immunization is required for all staff working in Indian Health Service health care facilities.

Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify/ .

You will need to set up direct deposit so we can pay you.

Background Investigation: If you are selected for this vacancy, you must undergo a pre-employment fingerprint check and background investigation. Fingerprint results and background investigation documentation must be cleared prior to hire. After you begin your employment, your continued employment is contingent upon the outcome of a complete background investigation as determined by the sensitivity level of your position. The investigation must find that you are suitable for Federal employment in your position. If you are found not suitable, you will be terminated after you begin work. If you make a false statement in any part of your application, you may not be hired; you may be fired after you begin work; or subject to possible criminal charges. You may be subject to a credit check as a part of the background investigation process.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

BASIC REQUIREMENT(S):To qualify for this position you must meet both of the screen-out elements listed below: Your resume must demonstrate you possess the skills and ability to perform the functions of this position.

• Ability to do the Work Without More than Normal Supervision: experience and/or training to perform most duties of the Cook, including quantity cooking, on own initiative subject to only intermittent supervision.
• Technical Practices: this pertains to the knowledge of preparing and serving food for consumption.
  
  

These screen-out elements are a critical self-assessment of the applicant's experience and are essential for satisfactory job performance.

You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.

Education

This position has an education requirement. You are strongly encouraged to submit a copy of your transcripts or a list of your courses including titles, credit hours completed, and grades. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required from all selectees prior to receiving an official offer.

Only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education may be credited. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: https://www.ed.gov/accreditation .

If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/ .

Additional Information

Additional selection(s) of candidates may be possible within 240 days from the date the certificate of eligibles was issued for this announcement.

Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. IHS may offer newly-appointed Federal employees credit for their directly related previous non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave.

This position is covered by a Bargaining Unit.

This position has no promotion potential.

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How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

If you meet the minimum qualifications requirements for this position, your application will be evaluated and rated under Category Rating selection procedures. Once the application process is complete, a review of your qualifications will be conducted to determine if you are qualified for this job. Qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The quality categories are: Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified. Within each of these categories, applicants eligible for veteran's preference will receive selection priority over non-preference eligibles.

Please note that if, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your category rating can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities, or you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

To determine if you are qualified for this position, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against the qualifications as defined in the qualifications section of this vacancy announcement and your responses to the assessment questions. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume (your resume must state specific duties that relate to this position) and your responses to the assessment questions will be evaluated against the duties you provided in your resume, along with your submitted documentation to determine your ability to demonstrate the following.

• Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (Screen-out Element)
• Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (other than blueprints)
• Ability To Lead Or Supervise (Screen-out Element)
• Knowledge of Materials
• Work Practices (includes keeping things neat, clean and in order)
  
  

The following links below provide information on how you may be eligible for various hiring authorities. If you are a Veteran, qualified CTAP and ICTAP eligible, or an individual with a disability, please refer to the following links below for additional guidance. CTAP and ICTAP candidates will be eligible for selection priority if it is determined that they have exceeded the minimum qualifications for the position by attaining at least a "well qualified" rating of 85 out of 100. Information about CTAP and ICTAP eligibility is on the Office of Personnel Management's Workforce Restructuring Career Transition website at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ . CTAP/ICTAP documentation requirements are listed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.

• Veterans, i.e. (VEOA, VRA, and 30% or more disabled) - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/veterans-services/vet-guide-for-hr-professionals/
• Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) - http://www.ihs.gov/jobs/support-documents/
• Interagency Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/
• Schedule A Appointments for the Disabled - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/disability-employment/hiring/
  
  

Click here to view vacancy questions: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12486216 . All documents above MUST be received by 11:59 pm (Eastern Standard Time) of the closing date of, 08/01/2024, to be considered.