Cook

Description:

This position is located in the Nutrition and Food Service at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Walla Walla, WA. The person in this position prepares nutritious, high-quality meals for service to the Veterans.

Requirements:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.

EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards .

SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, the ability to do the work of a WG-6 Cook, without more than normal supervision (SCREEN-OUT), which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Related experience includes, quantity food service setting such as restaurant, military, Nursing/Residential home or other similar quantity food service/kitchen environment, performing the following duties: Independently performing quantity food preparation and servicing in a restaurant/other institution environment. Responsibilities include cooking a variety of menu items including regular and special diet entrees and dessert items; portioning and serving food into standard service sizes; roasting, broiling, baking, frying, boiling, steaming, and stewing meats, fish, and poultry; preparing soups, stocks, broths, gravies, sauces, and puddings without the use of packaged mixes; adjusting standardized recipes for the number of servings required in large quantity cooking; slicing meat items by hand conforming to a specific size requirement or weight specification; maintaining proper temperature for all foods during holding, transport, reheating, and serving to assure quality control and food safety. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements:

• Dexterity and Safety
• Interpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)
• Materials
• Technical Practices
• Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
• Without more than normal supervision
• Work Practices

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; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.