Kitchen Server / Dishwasher

About the role

Vista Springs Trillium Village is seeking a Kitchen Assistant to join our team. As a Kitchen Assistant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring residents receive nutritious and palatable meals.

Responsibilities

• Arrive to your scheduled shift regularly and punctually.
• Assist the culinary service director/cook to develop, monitor and maintain quality standards for the storage, preparation and presentation of food.
• Prepare and serve nutritionally balanced, well-prepared and palatable meals that reflect the likes and dislikes of residents in a timely and consistent manner while adhering to menus and special dietary needs, using the GFS cycle Menu management program.
• Verify appropriate meals and snacks are served to residents.
• Comply with dietary department licensing standards and requirements.
• Routinely communicate with the culinary service director on feedback from residents regarding food.
• Communicate to the Culinary Service Director/Cook when inventory of supplies and food items are low so they may be re-ordered.
• Comply with sanitation schedule for kitchen, equipment, and dining room to maintain high standard of sanitation and cleanliness.
• Cook under the instruction of the Culinary Service Director/cook, coordinate special events including but not limited to holiday meals, birthday meals, company picnics or other events.
• Attend mandatory in-service meetings and continuing education opportunities as required.
• Adhere to MSDS procedures regarding cleaners or other hazardous materials.
• Comply with universal precautions and infection control, isolation, fire, safety and sanitation practices and procedures.
• Properly report any hazardous conditions and equipment, incidents or accidents in a timely fashion.
• Maintain confidentiality of resident health information as required by HIPAA.
• Ensure a safe environment for residents, visitors and co-workers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma, one year experience cooking/baking from scratch and preparing special diets and management experience in a long-term care or assisted living setting OR a combination of education and experience.
• Proficient in Word and Outlook in a Windows environment or equivalent.
• Ability to read, speak and understand the English language and communicate effectively with residents, family members and employees.
• Ability to read and correctly interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rates and percent’s and the ability to read and interpret graphs from data.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• First aid and CPR training will be provided on the job.

Skills & Abilities

• Accountability: Accepts responsibility and accounts for his/her actions.
• Resident Oriented: Takes care of the residents’ needs while following company procedures.
• Ethical: Demonstrates conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
• Respectful: Displays a caring, respectful and positive attitude when addressing residents, family members and co-workers.
• Honest/ integrity: Is truthful and seen as credible in the workplace.
• Relationship Building: Effectively builds relationships with residents and co-workers.
• Reliability: Is dependable and trustworthy.
• Responsible: Is held accountable or answerable for ones conduct.
• Creativity: Seeks ways to improve all aspects of the job; brainstorms to develop suggestions and new ideas.
• Communication: Communicates openly and honestly and with tact; promotes cooperation, trust and open exchange of ideas; treats others with respect; expresses facts and thoughts in writing in a clear and organized way; resolves conflicts in a positive way.
• Time Management: Effectively prepares and uses a 'to do' list; allocates time to planning, thinking and mapping out tasks; controls time spent in attending meetings and controls interruptions.