Food Service Worker II – Food and Nutrition Services (Full-Time/Days)

#REF!•Rockwall, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for serving food on the cafeteria and patient tray lines, assembling, delivering, and retrieving patient trays. The role involves documenting food delivery times and food tallies, performing simple record keeping such as temperature checks, and reporting variances from standards to a supervisor. Additionally, the position entails simple food assembly like preparing salads and portioning/garnishing foods, cleaning and sanitizing equipment, wares, walls, and floors, and washing/sanitizing dishes, pots, pans, and utensils according to department standards. The worker will label and date foods according to HACCP standards, learn and follow HACCP sanitation guidelines for safe food handling, and know/perform proper procedures for taking and recording temperatures of food items and refrigerated units. The role also includes collecting and delivering floor stock, between-meal nourishments, and late trays, maintaining assigned areas and equipment in a safe, clean, neat, and orderly manner, and disposing of trash and garbage according to standards. The position requires following clean-as-you-go practices and proper hand hygiene.

Requirements

High School Diploma or Equivalent required
1-2 years of previous Food Service experience strongly preferred
FHC - Food Handlers Certificate 30 Days required
Ability to learn HACCP sanitation guidelines and follow for safe food handling.
Ability to follow/learn OSHA safety guidelines.

Nice To Haves

1-2 years of previous Food Service experience

Responsibilities

Serves food on the cafeteria and patient tray lines, utilizing good customer skills when serving patrons.
Assembles, delivers and retrieves patient trays.
Documents food delivery times and food tallies; performs other simple record keeping, i.e. temperature checks on equipment and food.
Reports variances from standards to supervisor.
Performs simple food assembly such as preparing salads, portioning and garnishing foods according to instruction.
Cleans and sanitizes equipment, wares, walls, and floors routinely.
Washes and sanitizes dishes, pots and pans as well as all cooking utensils and cooking equipment, according to department standards and procedures.
Labels and dates foods according to HACCP standards.
Knows and performs proper procedure for taking and recording temperatures of food items, both raw and cooked and refrigerated units.
Demonstrates and performs procedures when temperatures are inadequate according to standards.
Understands and utilizes the FIFO system of food production.
Collects and delivers floor stock utilizing FIFO, delivers between meal nourishments and late trays according to departmental standards.
Maintains assigned areas and equipment in a safe, clean, neat, and orderly manner to meet/exceed both department and TDH sanitation standards in both department sanitation and personal hygiene.
Disposes of trash and garbage according to standards and procedures.
Follows clean as you go as well as proper hand hygiene.