Food Service Worker - Full Time

Amberwell Health•Hiawatha, KS

30d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for cleaning and sanitizing all dishes, utensils, pots, pans, carts used for both retail and room service operation. In addition, this position will assist and run patient carts to appropriate zones as instructed. This position requires the ability to assist with meals on wheels, catering, food preparation, and in the café as assigned. This position is required to assist with taking calls, setting up cold items on trays and expediting trays by serving as a back-up to the host/hostess as required. The dish room position will be responsible for sanitation of the kitchen, which includes: Cleaning and maintaining the floors/walls/equipment/space, utilizing dish machine per specifications, verifying that equipment is working properly, sweep nursing units for trays left over from previous evening, wash dishes/pots/other service ware as needed, returning all clean items to the appropriate storage area, be sure that dish room sanitation levels are maintained while machine is in service (clean and dirty side division), sweep and mop department as needed/instructed, deliver trays as needed, return dirty trays to kitchen on an hourly basis, and assist with special functions as needed.

Requirements

Ability to speak, read, write, and follow written and oral instructions.
Must be able to work cooperatively as part of a team.
Demonstrates ability to exercise time and task management.
Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds occasionally or 10 to 25 pounds frequently, or up to 10 pounds constantly.
Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience working in a health care food service setting is preferred.

Responsibilities

Cleaning and sanitizing all dishes, utensils, pots, pans, carts used for both retail and room service operation.
Assisting and running patient carts to appropriate zones as instructed.
Assisting with meals on wheels, catering, food preparation, and in the café as assigned.
Assisting with taking calls, setting up cold items on trays and expediting trays by serving as a back-up to the host/hostess as required.
Cleaning and maintaining the floors/walls/equipment/space.
Utilizing dish machine per specifications.
Verifying that equipment is working properly.
Sweeping nursing units for trays left over from previous evening.
Washing dishes/pots/other service ware as needed.
Returning all clean items to the appropriate storage area.
Maintaining dish room sanitation levels while machine is in service (clean and dirty side division).
Sweeping and mopping department as needed/instructed.
Delivering trays as needed.
Returning dirty trays to kitchen on an hourly basis.
Assisting with special functions as needed.
Operating dish machine and conducting daily cleaning and weekly de-liming per specifications.
Returning all clean items to appropriate areas.
Properly sanitizing dirty tray cart and using soaking bin appropriately.
Recording and maintaining sanitizer logs.
Ensuring that soap and sanitizer buckets are provided for prep area and dish room each morning and before lunch and dinner meal periods.
Checking and documenting temperatures according to protocol, recording temperature once during each meal service.
Keeping work area clean and uncluttered.
Regularly verifying that equipment is working properly and communicating technical/functional issues immediately through appropriate channels.
Conducting trays sweeps, including tray retrieval from patient rooms and storage areas, hourly, post peak meal times.
Completing all necessary café food prep as F1 or FSW.
Removing out-dating food items as F3.
Assisting in other positions such as room service ordering and tray set-up.
Delivering patient meals as needed or instructed.
Promptly pausing dish room work to assist in café when customers enter.
Completing daily, weekly and monthly task checklist as well as daily coronavirus sanitizing task.
Performing other duties as assigned.