Food Service Assistant - PT Day & Weekend Shifts

About the role

Join us at Winthrop Health & Rehab – a place where you’ll be valued, recognized and rewarded for the vital work you do each day. We’ll surround you with a strong team and leadership that supports every aspect of your life – both inside and outside of our centers. You’ll get to practice your passion in a non-profit, mission-driven organization that’s known for the highest level of care in our communities.

Pay

Starting pay: $14.70/hour (part-time)

Benefits

• myFlexPay – ability to receive pay before payday
• Paid time off with ability to cash out
• 7 paid holidays
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) with match
• Referral Bonus Program
• Weekly pay

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, desserts, and other dishes
• Assists with the pouring of juice, milk, water, and tea
• Serves patients beverages
• Takes meals out to patients in dining area
• Prepares between-meal nourishments (e.g., sandwiches)
• 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
• Follows 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, and steam table
• Operates the dish machine, garbage disposal, mixer, blender, meat slicer, steamer, 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

Requirements

• A high school diploma or its equivalent preferred
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or associates of the organization
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram format
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations

Skills

• Communicates well with other associates, patients, family members, and visitors, providing a 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
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to sit, talk, or hear
• Frequently required to walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms
• Occasionally required to stand
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus