Dining Services Assistant- Part-Time/Full-Time
About The Position
The Dining Services Assistant performs food service tasks for resident and staff meal service, including setting tables, portioning and serving food, preparing and delivering resident snacks, restocking resident refrigerators and pantries, and preparing cold sandwiches, salads, and desserts. The role also supports catering operations and maintains the cleanliness and sanitation of dining and food-preparation areas and equipment. The assistant assembles resident meals according to established menus and resident meal tickets, sets up and serves dining rooms, documents food and refrigeration/freezer temperatures, and takes corrective action when needed. Cleaning duties include washing dishes and cookware, operating dishwashing equipment and three-compartment sinks, cleaning food-service and cooking equipment, and maintaining assigned work areas and storage spaces. The employee follows department, facility, and government policies and procedures and performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Ability to understand and follow written and oral directions.
- Ability to communicate with staff and residents, in writing and orally.
- Positive attitude and caring approach.
- Availability to work some weekdays, every other weekend, and a holiday rotation.
- Ability to walk and stand for most of the work shift.
- Ability to frequently stoop, stretch, bend, climb, and reach.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and push or pull up to 100 pounds.
- Ability to work with some exposure to potentially hazardous equipment and chemicals, hot environments, and extreme temperatures in walk-in refrigerators and freezers.
Responsibilities
- Support resident and staff meal service.
- Prepare and assemble items for meal service, including salads, sandwiches, desserts, beverages, condiments, and silverware.
- Assemble resident meals according to established menus and resident meal tickets.
- Set up, serve, clear, and clean resident dining rooms.
- Prepare and deliver resident snacks.
- Replenish nursing and resident refrigerators with approved beverages and snack items.
- Support catering operations by preparing and assembling requested items and setting up catering locations.
- Document refrigeration and freezer temperatures.
- Document food temperatures and take corrective action as needed.
- Clean service ware and cooking utensils.
- Set up, operate, and clean dishwashing machines and three-compartment sinks.
- Scrape, soak, scour, and scrub heavy cooking utensils; clean plates, bowls, saucers, glasses, and silverware.
- Maintain department sanitation and clear, break down, and clean assigned work areas.
- Clean floors, walls, ceilings, exhaust fans, large cooking and food-preparation equipment, walk-in refrigerators, and storage areas.
- Perform special cleaning duties as assigned by a supervisor.
- Comply with department, facility, and government policies and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
