Food Service Associate PRN

About the role

The role involves preparing food items, assisting in food preparation, cleaning and sanitizing the food preparation area, running the dishwasher, and related dietary duties at House of Mercy. The incumbent works under the daily leadership of the House of Mercy Chef and the general supervision of the Operations Data Manager.

Responsibilities

• Prepares food as needed and assists the Chef and/or Cooks in food preparation, following daily preparation instructions.
• Serves evening meals.
• Cleans and sanitizes the food preparation area, equipment, utensils and tools.
• Performs scullery work including transferring tray carts from daycares to the dish room, assisting with dishwashing, storing clean dishes, and cleaning the dish machine and the scullery.
• Leaves the scullery pre-set for the next morning.
• Assists the Chef and/or Cooks in pushing food carts, racks and dollies.
• Participates in House of Mercy’s Performance Quality Improvement Process.
• Attends meetings and training sessions as required.

Requirements

• Ability to read, write, comprehend, and speak English.
• High school diploma or equivalent, preferred.
• Completion of Mandatory Reporter abuse training specific to population served within thirty (30) days of employment.

Physical Activity Requirements

• Constant Talking: Expressing ideas by means of the spoken word to convey instructions to other workers.
• Frequent Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against food carts, racks and bins with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Occasional Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion such as carts, racks and dish bins.
• Occasional Grasping: Applying pressure to scoops, spoons, dishes with fingers and palms to move object from position to position.
• Frequent Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Frequent Lifting: To move trays and pans of food from ovens and steamers; cases of food and pans of foods at counter-top heights and to floor level of food carts.
• Frequent Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Frequent Repetitive Motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands and/or fingers to move food objects, dishes, utensils to procedural positions.
• Frequent Fingering: Pinching or fingering (primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm).

Intellectual/Emotional Requirements

• Aligns behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of House of Mercy.
• Interacts on a daily basis with internal and external clients and customers, performing duties with a customer service excellence approach.
• Sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics is mandatory.
• Verbal communication skills.
• Adaptability to performing repetitive work or to performing continuously the same work, according to set procedures sequence or pace.
• Adaptability to performing under stress when confronted with emergency, critical or unusual situations in which working speed and sustained attention are important aspects of the job.
• Adaptability to influencing people in their opinions, attitudes or judgments about ideas or things.
• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Adaptability to dealing with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.
• Ability to maintain both a high standard of courtesy and cooperation in dealing with co-workers, patients, and visitors and satisfactory job performance despite the stress of a hospital work environment.