Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for assembling resident trays, loading carts, and delivering meals to residents
• Interprets and applies information from residents’ diet cards to appropriate menus
• Prepares between-meal nourishment for residents
• Serves cafeteria patrons and operates cash register
• Assists with the maintenance of storeroom, refrigerators, and freezers (rotating, stocking, and conducting inventory)
• Follows all food safety guidelines and sanitation procedures
• Performs other duties as assigned

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent listening and verbal communication skills
• Ability to exercise tact and diplomacy while interacting with residents, visitors, and staff
• Ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks effectively and efficiently
• Excellent organization and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work within defined time constraints
• Ability to take initiative and follow through
• Knowledge of how to safely prepare and handle food

Minimum Education and Experience

• High school coursework and one (1) year of experience working in a commercial/industrial kitchen; or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Food service experience preferred, preferably in health care

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
• This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing all day.
• The employee must frequently lift or move objects and patients/residents weighing over 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Generally in an indoor setting; occasionally may perform tasks for outside activities and events.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to odors, fumes or airborne particles and some mechanical equipment.
• While performing the duties of this job, may be exposed to extreme conditions, to include hot and cold.
• The employee may be exposed to a variety of patient conditions and elements.
• The noise level is moderate to loud.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

• This is a position in a health care setting that is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Rotating shifts, as well as holiday and work during inclement weather, may be required. EOE.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Shift:

• After school
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Morning shift

Experience:

• Dietary Department Experience: 1 year (Preferred)
• Food Service: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person