Job Details
** Food Services Assistant/Potwasher and Utility (PT)**
**Job Category****:** Non-clinical Position **Requisition Number****:** FOODS02003 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
**Food Services Assistant**
**Part Time**
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****PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** include some or all of the following according to shift/assignment:**
- Assists Director and Chef with daily meal preparation.
- Prepares the salad bar daily ensuring freshness and appealing appearance.
- Ensures dishes, silver and serving pieces are clean at all times and in the proper places at meal times.
- Maintains and ensure cleanliness of beverage bar and machines with juice, coffee and tea at all times.
- Sets up appropriate condiments for lunch and dinner mails for hot and cold line.
- Cleans floors, vacuums carpet in dining room and maintains dining room orderliness.
- Maintains coffee stations in lobby, waiting area and First Step area.
- Acts as food runner at meal times for hot and cold food.
- Fills and cleans condiment station and table condiments.
- Prepares all dish room duties.
- Cleans and organizes all kitchen work stations and equipment.
- Prepares deli bar for Sunday dinner service.
- Maintains the desert bar.
- Cleans and sanitizes thoroughly all pots, pans and kitchen equipment and utensils and ensures their proper storage.
- Removes trash bags, cleans trash cans and breaks down cardboard boxes for disposal.
- Keeps kitchen and serving area floors clean and dry.
- Ensures clean and orderly condition of stoves, ovens and all kitchen equipment.
- Keeps inside windows, walls and doors in kitchen and break room clean and orderly at all times.
- Washes kitchen mats nightly.
- Cleans back dock and dumpster pad and keeps dumpster doors closed at all times.
- Mops kitchen, serving areas, cooler, stockroom and bathroom each night.
- Cleans air filters in hood weekly.
- Maintains milk dispenser including cleaning and stocking.
- Complies with all local and state health requirements on sanitation, safe handling and storage of food.
- Ensures that a welcoming, safe and healing environment is maintained for each patient and family throughout the continuum of care.
- Recommends ways to improve the quality and delivery of services.
- Makes change and accepts meal payments.
- Maintains confidentiality of company and patient information.
- Reacts productively to change.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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****QUALIFICATIONS****
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
**EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE**
High school or GED is required; a minimum of one (1) year of food service experience is preferred; and/or equivalent education or experience in job related activities is required.
**OTHER SKILLS**
Ability to lift up to 30 pounds; ability to push/pull up to 100 pounds; ability to speak, hear, see, sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, handle and reach; ability to speak and read in English; good interpersonal skills; good oral communications skills; good dexterity; experience with cutlery and knowledge of kitchen equipment; completion of Metro health department food handlers safety and sanitation course. If recovering, one year of verifiable abstinence required with active participation in the appropriate Twelve Step program preferred.
**WORK ENVIRONMENT**
Position is in a kitchen setting that involves associated risks or discomforts requiring safety precautions. Position is subject to work within a small kitchen operation, often at temperatures greater than normal. Position is subject to long hours and extended shifts, including weekends and holidays.
**Qualifications**
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**Education**
**Required**
High School/GED or better.
**Experience**
**Preferred**
**1 year:** food service
**Licenses & Certifications**