Cook - Limited Duration

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Are you passionate about creating nutritious and appetizing meals while making a positive impact on young lives? Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility in Albany, Oregon, is seeking a dedicated and talented Full-Time Cook to join our diverse team. In this role, you will cook and serve meals based on state and federal guidelines, train and supervise youth in custody participating in vocational food-related work experience programs, and prepare foods for special diets. Your contributions will help maintain a dynamic environment that fosters responsibility, healthy habits, productive lifestyles, and socially acceptable conduct among our youth. Join us in our mission to support and guide youth in custody towards a brighter future.

Your Role As A Cook:

• Supervises and trains youth in the preparation and serving of meals.

• Trains vocational youth in proper usage of kitchen tools and equipment, including knives, slicers, food choppers, ovens, and food service chemicals. This training also includes proper food safety and sanitation practices, and proper cleanup after each meal.

• Assures proper transportation of residents in a safe and secure manner. Wears duress system and radio anytime supervising youth. Knows whereabouts at all times of youth during their assignments to the kitchen.

• Works independently using common Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) menu and standardized recipes to cook, prepare, and coordinate nutritious, appetizing, and visually appealing meals every day.

• Prepares special diets for medical, dental, and religious needs.

• Coordinates service and delivery of meals effectively, in a timely manner, and on schedule.

• Maintains health and sanitation standards in food preparation including food, utensils, and equipment. Responsible for the sanitation of the kitchen area.

Additional Information:

• Limited Duration: This is a limited duration appointment that is expected to end twelve (12) months from appointment date. Limited duration appointments are regular status, benefits eligible, with a designated maximum length of service. This position has the potential on becoming permanent.

• Comprehensive and equitable base salary offer within the listed range based on your experience, skills and education. For more information on pay equity, click here.

• The salary range listed is the non-PERS participating rate. If you are already a participating PERS member or once you become PERS eligible, the salary range will increase by 6%. Please review the Classification and Compensation page for more details.

• This position receives annual increases on anniversary date until the maximum of the salary range is reached.

• Please save a copy of this job announcement for your reference, as it may not be available for you to view after the job closes.

• This recruitment will be used to fill multiple current and future vacancies as they occur.

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Tentative IN-PERSON Interview Schedule:

• First round interview: October 2, 2024
• Second round interview: October 9, 2024

About Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility:

Oak Creek is one of nine Oregon Youth Authority Correctional Facilities. It holds the distinction as the sole facility that serves young women in Oregon. Located in the city of Albany within Linn County, Oak Creek serves approximately 50 female youth in the juvenile and adult justice systems. Like the seven facilities that serve males, Oak Creek houses youth who are adjudicated for criminal behavior in juvenile court, as well as youth serving sentences that originated in adult court from various jurisdictions. These youth have either been waived to adult court from juvenile court or by virtue of their age and severity of the criminal offense automatically remanded to adult court.

Unique among the OYA facilities and unlike their male facility counterparts, is Oak Creek's capacity and challenge to address all aspects of a correctional facility. Stated another way, Oak Creek is the sole facility in OYA that engages in the functions of Intake, Long Term Care, Mental Health, Behavior Management, and Transition. While some OYA facilities may do most of the five functions listed above, no OYA facility aside from Oak Creek addresses all five areas as part of its ongoing practice.

ABOUT OYA

At OYA, diversity, equity, and inclusion are more than just words on a page.To meet our mission and live our values as an agency, DEI must be at the heart of all we do. We support cultural competence, develop teams and cultivate leaders in ways that are equitable to everyone, especially people of color, those who identify as LGBTQ+, or those from other marginalized communities. We are explicit and intentional as we identify resources that all our youth and staff need to grow and prosper. Our DEI work connects closely with our culture of positive human development, with safe and supportive environments where everyone is held accountable and connected to their community. The end goal is to protect the public and reduce crime by holding youth accountable and providing opportunities for reformation in safe environments.

If you are looking to join a team that values individual and cultural differences, with the opportunity to contribute to youth reformation by enriching our workforce with diversity, OYA wants to hear from you! People of color, women, and other members of historically marginalized communities are strongly encouraged to apply!

For more information please visitwww.oregon.gov/oya.

What's in it for You?
OYA values our employees. We believe that your time outside of the workplace is as valuable as it is inside the workplace. We offer a great work/life balance with flexible work schedules on most positions and a competitive benefits package, including low-cost, high-coverage health insurance, generous time-off, and a competitive retirement plan.

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Working Conditions:

Must be able to work under the following condition with or without reasonable accommodations:

• OYA facilities are tobacco free environments.

• Shift work in a 24-hour, 7-day a week operation, with night shifts, weekends, holidays, and overtime as required.

• Adhereto the dress code of the specific work site.

• Frequent exposure to verbal abuse, threats, and dealing with impulsive, rebellious, assaultive youth.

• Theuse ofreasonable force in the performance of duties or during a disturbance or other emergency situation may be required.

• Physical standards for vision, hearing, dexterity, push/pull, running, and jogging.

• Transport youth as requested, and, if in a security position, operate state vehicles.

This position is represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU/OPEU). By joining and maintaining your membership with SEIU Local 503, the following benefits are available to you such as:

• $2,500 life insurance policy paid for by your union, SEIU Local 503. This policy is in effect if you are an active member.

• Up to $200,000 of additional life insurance can be purchased. Up to $100,000 member life, $40,000 spouse and $10,000 child is guaranteed within the first 90 days of new union membership.

• Short Term Disability insurance is guaranteed if purchased within the first 90 days of new union membership.

• Legal insurance enrollment is available to purchase within the first 90 days of new union membership.

• Tuition reimbursement.

For more information on SEIU, please click here.

What You Need To Qualify:

• One year of experience as a cook in a food service facility OR

• possession of a Certificate of Completion in culinary arts and/or Foods and Hospitality Service from a certified community college or technical school.

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS
This position requires a food handler's card, must have the ability to obtain the appropriate county food handler's card within 30 days of hire.

What We Are Looking For:
Let us know if you possess any or all of these desired attributes! This will determine who will move forward for an interview!

• Knowledge of the principles, policies, procedures and state regulations of food preparation and cooking in a volume dining/food service setting.

• Experience in food preparation and cooking in a volume dining/food service setting.

• Experience and high level of responsibility in the use of kitchen equipment, hazardous chemicals and disinfectants.

How to apply:

• If you are applying internally, update your employee Workday profile and submit your application. You can upload your resume and the system will parse your information into the Job History section of your profile.

• If you are applying through the external job site, you can upload/drag and drop your resume. The system will parse your information into the application-make sure your work experience appears correctly in the application.

• Complete questionnaire.

• After you submit your application, be sure to respond to the public records request authorization. This screen will come after you submit and will complete the process. If you are an employee, the PRR task will come to your Workday inbox.

Additional Information:

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we are here to serve. OYA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be individualized based on merit, competence, performance, and business need.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law." The more diverse we are, the better our work will be.

Applicants with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hiring process. For assistance regarding reasonable accommodation or for alternative format please contact OYA Recruitment at 971-345-1236. Oregon Relay Service can be reached by calling 7-1-1.

Pre-employment Checks:

In keeping with our mission, OYA will conduct a criminal record check, per OAR 416 Division 800, a driving record background check and a vulnerable population abuse and neglect check. Information obtained about an individual is confidential. An individual who refuses to consent to a criminal records/background check shall be disqualified from consideration in the position for which you applied. All applicants are subject to additional pre-employment check(s) such as fingerprint based on criminal records check, pre-employment drug screening and/or education verification as required for the position.

In 2003 Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), the first federal civil statue focused specifically on addressing sexual violence in juvenile facilities, jails, prisons, and other facilities. In recognition of the rights, safety, and well-being of the youth we serve you will be asked specific questions about your background to ensure our hiring and promotion practices comply with the National PREA standards.

All positions in OYA will require the incumbent to serve as a "mandatory reporter" of child abuse.

Visa Sponsorship:

We do not offer Visa sponsorship. If you are hired, you will be required to fill out the US Department of Homeland Security's I-9 form confirming you are able to work in the US. OYAuses E-Verify to confirm that applicants are authorized to work in the United States.

Have Questions?:

For questions about the job announcement, contact our Recruitment Team OYAjobs@oya.oregon.gov