Food Service Assistant - FT - Day

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Assists cook in preparing desserts or snacks for patients.
• Assists cook in preparation of meals.
• Carries trays to patients on halls.
• Cleans tables in the dining area after each meal.
• Helps with salads and desserts and other dishes.
• Pours juice, milk, water, and tea.
• Serves patients beverages, etc.
• Serves meals to patients in the dining area.
• Prepares between-meal nourishments (make sandwiches, etc.).
• Cleans work area at the end of shift and after meals, including sweeping and mopping.
• Removes garbage from kitchen areas and hoses out garbage containers.
• Complies with infection control policies in the work area.
• Scrapes dishes, washes dishes, pots and pans.
• Records freezer and walk-in refrigerator temperatures in accordance with established procedures.
• Checks stock as needed.
• Puts up stock in appropriate manner.
• Stores cleaning materials appropriately.
• Sets up tray line and performs tray line service.
• Fulfills diet orders and NPO diet orders.
• Offers menu substitutions and records them in accordance with procedural guidelines.
• Properly stores leftovers/opened food.
• Serves nourishments in accordance with procedural guidelines.
• Makes coffee/tea as requested.
• Follows procedures for serving associate meals.
• Cleans kitchen equipment such as, carts, tables, counters, ice machine, buckets, blender, mixer, meat slicer, freezer, refrigerator, stove, oven, steamer, garbage disposal, dish machine coffee/tea maker, steam table etc.
• Operates the dish machine, garbage disposal, mixer, blender, meat slicer and steamer.
• Operates coffee and tea maker.
• Follows standardized recipes.
• Uses serving equipment (ladle, spoon, scoops, etc.)
• Checks and records water temperature (dishwasher, pot and pan sink, etc.)
• Checks dishwasher with sanitizer strips.
• Checks chemical levels and replaces if needed.
• Promotes the image and reputation of the System by exhibiting servant leadership and providing direct and open lines of communication.
• Contributes to the work of committees, workgroups, project management, and other collaborative efforts of the System.
• Performs other duties as necessary to ensure the success of the System.

Skills And Abilities

• Communicates well with other associates, patients, family members, and visitors providing warm and friendly greeting and an approachable attitude.
• Responds to expressed concerns while displaying a helpful, caring demeanor, answers questions when appropriate in a professional manner.

Minimum Qualifications

• A high school diploma or its equivalent preferred.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None.

Reasoning Abilities

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram format.
• The ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to sit, talk or hear.
• The associate frequently is required to walk.
• Use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• The associate is occasionally required to stand.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.