Culinary Assistant PT
About The Position
The Culinary Assistant enhances the SRI Management experience in Artful Dining for residents, families, and guests, and demonstrates the company’s golden-rule core value. Under general supervision, this role assists with food preparation and serving. The assistant helps prepare food according to the established menu, serves residents in the dining room at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and maintains clean, safe, and orderly kitchen, dining, and food-storage areas. The role also supports a dignified and caring atmosphere, responds courteously to requests, communicates in a way residents can understand, and works cooperatively with other associates and management. The position follows sanitation, safety, cleaning, emergency, attendance, dress-code, and HIPAA policies and procedures. It includes reporting safety hazards, attending required trainings and meetings, assisting with training new dining-services employees when needed, taking initiative, and undertaking special assignments or other reasonable duties as requested.
Requirements
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to write simple correspondence.
- Ability to present information effectively in one-on-one and small-group situations to customers, clients, and other employees.
- Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
- Ability to handle problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
- High school diploma or GED, less than one year of related experience or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to meet the stated physical demands, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.
Responsibilities
- Assist with food preparation according to the established menu when needed.
- Follow departmental sanitation, safety, and cleaning procedures and schedules.
- Wash and store dishes using proper cleaning procedures.
- Serve and assist residents in the dining room at breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily.
- Clean the kitchen, food-service equipment, and food-storage areas daily.
- Maintain a clean, safe, and orderly environment for residents.
- Perform daily general cleaning duties in the kitchen and dining room according to established schedules.
- Support a dignified and caring atmosphere for residents, families, visitors, and associates.
- Respond promptly and courteously to requests for assistance from residents and family members.
- Communicate effectively in a language each resident can understand.
- Maintain a safe and secure work environment; practice good body mechanics and safe work habits; and immediately report safety hazards to a supervisor.
- Follow established policies and procedures in emergency situations.
- Work as a team player and maintain a positive, respectful attitude toward work issues, policies, procedures, residents, families, visitors, associates, and management.
- Comply with attendance and call-off policies and attend or participate in trainings, in-service meetings, and mandatory meetings.
- Wear clean and appropriate attire in accordance with the dress-code policy.
- Refer inquiries about resident care from families and visitors to the immediate supervisor.
- Follow HIPAA regulations.
- Assist with training new dining-services employees when necessary.
- Take initiative, seek additional information, and offer solutions or suggestions.
- Take on special projects or assignments outside regular duties and perform other reasonable duties as assigned or requested.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
