Food Service Worker/Hot Food Associate Dipper (Culinary) - Part-Time

About the role

The Food Service Worker will provide timely, efficient and accurate patient tray line setup and patient meal assembly. They will also provide courteous and timely set-up and service in the cafeteria, at the cashier stations and for catered events. They will deliver and retrieve patient meals to and from nursing units in a safe and expedient manner.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the sanitation and cleanliness of the service ware, pots, pans, equipment and work and service areas.
• Operate the dish machine for service ware sanitation.
• Prepare toast, salads, desserts and other food items requiring some food preparation skills according to specific directions and established quantities.
• Operate cash register accurately with no over rings or shortages.
• Ensure that cash drawer has proper level of cash, obtaining additional change as necessary.
• Refill coffee urns, juice and milk dispensers as needed and stocks cafeteria with various food and non-food items as needed including donuts, fruit, silverware, condiments, paper products and the like.
• Follow safe food handling practices, maintain food items at appropriate temperatures and follow established storage practices.
• Sustain a sanitary work environment according to health standards and Department policies.
• Absorb and distribute food items to patients as necessary in the best interest of SRAlab.

Requirements

• Approximately one to three months on-the-job experience in order to become familiar with basic food preparation techniques and learn cafeteria procedures and department policies.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to courteously greet patients when delivering food trays to rooms and employees, visitors and other cafeteria patrons.
• Basic analytical skills necessary to portion proper amounts of food to patient trays and stock food stations with necessary items.
• Ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail needed for approximately twenty percent of work time when entering customer charges, receiving money, making change, counting and weighing food items and working tray line.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of safe food handling practices.
• Ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail.
• Ability to operate cash register accurately.
• Ability to maintain a sanitary work environment.

Skills

• Food preparation skills.
• Cash register operation.
• Sanitation and cleanliness maintenance.
• Customer service skills.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

24 hour work week, subject to work weekends and holidays.