Culinary Associate - Part Time, 2nd Shift

About the role

This position is the designated point of contact with the residents, offering service excellence and quality meals.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates the knowledge and skill necessary to provide dietary services to the needs of both internal and external customers.
• Demonstrates leadership and personal accountability for performance to ensure quality food service is given to each and every customer.
• Maintains the dietary department in a safe and sanitary manner.
• Serves meals as needed to comply with therapeutic diets ensuring they are presentable in appearance and palatable.
• Ensures correct portion sizes are served based on resident choices.
• Ensures all ordered items are available and prepared.
• Adheres to unit standards of dress and attends all scheduled meetings as well as mandatory competency training.
• Displays service excellence by practicing the mission and values of the organization to promote resident satisfaction.
• Complies with organizational policies, procedures, and practices to ensure quality job performance and regulatory compliance.
• Maintains communications with management regarding all situations.
• Keeps work areas clean to meet sanitary requirements.
• Completes net learning in the assigned time frame and maintains an active email.
• Identifies and reports safety hazards promptly.
• Maintains cleanliness in work and dining areas, including tables, chairs, utensils, condiments, and beverage supplies.

Requirements

• Minimum 16 years old.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence and speak in sentences.
• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Basic math skills: ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and count.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in customer service preferred.

Physical Demands

This position requires a full range of body motions with constant walking, lifting, bending, squatting, kneeling, twisting, and standing. The associate will be required to sit for up to one hour a day, stand for four to six hours a day, and walk for one hour a day. The individual must be able to lift twenty to fifty pounds and reach work above the shoulders. The individual must have good eye-hand coordination and fine finger dexterity for simple grasping tasks. Excellent verbal communication skills are required to perform daily tasks. Corrected vision and hearing in the normal range are necessary.

Pay

$500 sign-on bonus.