What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dietary Aide Part-Time position at Linwood Meadows Care Center?
Job Title: Dietary Aide
Status: Part-Time
Location: Linwood Meadows Care Center
Salary Range: $17.48 - $17.58 per hour
Reports To: Cook and Dietary Supervisor
General Purpose
The Dietary Aide assists in the daily operation of the Dietary Department. Assignments are determined based on the needs and activity of each shift. This position supports meal service, sanitation, and overall kitchen operations to ensure a clean, safe, and pleasant dining experience for residents.
Essential Duties
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Qualifications
Education and/or Experience
Language Skills
The essential functions of this position require the ability to:
The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
Status: Part-Time
Location: Linwood Meadows Care Center
Salary Range: $17.48 - $17.58 per hour
Reports To: Cook and Dietary Supervisor
General Purpose
The Dietary Aide assists in the daily operation of the Dietary Department. Assignments are determined based on the needs and activity of each shift. This position supports meal service, sanitation, and overall kitchen operations to ensure a clean, safe, and pleasant dining experience for residents.
Essential Duties
- Learn and perform food service routines within a short period of time
- Set up and prepare meal trays
- Strip returned trays and wash dishes
- Assist with serving meals to residents
- Operate the dishwashing machine
- Check and record chlorine concentration and water temperature of the dishwasher at the beginning of each shift
- Monitor water temperatures during dishwashing cycles
- Prepare nourishments and snacks
- Sweep and mop kitchen and dietary areas
- Clean work surfaces, refrigerators, and equipment
- Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of the kitchen at all times
- Carry out trash and garbage
- Put groceries away in a safe, orderly, and sanitary manner
- Leave the kitchen clean and sanitary at the end of each shift
- Assist the Cook or Dietary Supervisor as needed
- Participate in orientation and ongoing training of dietary staff
- Work cooperatively and harmoniously with staff in all departments
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Qualifications
Education and/or Experience
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must obtain and maintain a valid Food Handler's Certificate
Language Skills
- Ability to read technical procedures
- Ability to read and follow recipes
- Ability to effectively communicate and respond to questions from managers and employees
- Ability to apply fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations
- Ability to solve practical problems
- Ability to interpret written, oral, diagram, or schedule-based instructions
The essential functions of this position require the ability to:
- Stand and/or walk very frequently
- Sit occasionally
- Reach with hands and arms frequently; push/pull very frequently
- Talk and hear very frequently
- Taste and/or smell very frequently
- Lift up to 50 pounds frequently
- Climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl occasionally
- Use close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth perception vision with ability to adjust focus
The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
Salary : $17 - $18