Food Service Worker - PRN
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, and carts.
- Assisting with and running patient carts to appropriate zones.
- Assisting with meals on wheels, catering, food preparation, and in the café.
- Assisting with taking calls, setting up cold items on trays, and expediting trays.
- Cleaning and maintaining kitchen floors, walls, equipment, and space.
- Utilizing dish machine per specifications.
- Verifying that equipment is working properly.
- Sweeping nursing units for trays.
- Washing dishes, pots, and other service ware.
- Returning all clean items to the appropriate storage area.
- Maintaining dish room sanitation levels.
- Sweeping and mopping the department.
- Delivering trays as needed.
- Returning dirty trays to the kitchen on an hourly basis.
- Assisting with special functions.
- Operating dish machine and conducting daily cleaning and weekly de-liming.
- Recording and maintaining sanitizer logs.
- Ensuring soap and sanitizer buckets are provided.
- Checking and documenting temperatures.
- Keeping work area clean and uncluttered.
- Communicating technical/functional issues immediately.
- Conducting tray sweeps, including tray retrieval from patient rooms and storage areas, hourly, post peak meal times.
- Completing all necessary café food prep.
- Removing out-dating food items.
- 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 checklists as well as daily coronavirus sanitizing tasks.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
