Food Service Worker – Nutrition Services

POSITION SUMMARY

Current Opening: Part-Time (16hrs/wk) and PRN position.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Assist cooks and co-workers in preparing, serving and delivering meals and beverages to hospital and long term care residents as well as staff
• Wash dishes, pots, pans, silverware and cooking equipment adhering to sanitation guidelines.
• Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment and carts in accordance with sanitation guidelines
• Complete all cleaning assignments
• Portion food according to menu standards when serving food and beverages
• Provide excellent customer service by answering phones in a timely, polite manner and assisting others in a gracious, positive way
• Demonstrate reliable attendance and punctuality
• Maintain confidentiality
• Assist in training new employees
• Take and record food and equipment temperatures and taking corrective action when necessary
• Other duties as assigned.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Good customer service skills
• Work closely with a diverse population remaining calm, respectful and helpful
• Read and interpret simple instructions and documents such as menus, diet cards, diet sheets, patient menus, preparation lists and policy manuals
• Respond appropriately to requests from customers, to read, write and speak effectively
• Add and subtract, multiply and divide using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals
• Maintain confidential information
• Apply common sense in order to carry out instructions written and oral form

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/REQUIREMENTS

• Typically standing, walking, bending, crouching or stooping.
• Frequent lifting of light objects
• Frequent lifting of objects weighing 25 to 50 pounds
• Use of tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity
• Work is performed in kitchen/dining areas, patient care areas and in storage areas
• Work is performed in a very noisy area
• Work may expose employee to machinery and its moving parts
• Work may expose employee to contagious or infectious diseases

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Long term disability coverage
• PTO – New employees accrue the equivalent of up to twenty days of PTO withing their first calendar year
• EIB (Extended Illness Bank) – Our version of accrued sick leave
• Nine paid holidays which includes two personal holidays
• Tuition Savings Plan
• Opportunities to cash out PTO for personal use, student loan payments, and in-house medical bills
• Tuition reimbursement – up to $5,000 per year
• Fun to be Fit program and Club Dauntless Membership Discount
• HRA – Flex spending accounts