Housing Monitor & Cook (8507)

The Salvation Army•Jackson, MS

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for accepting and processing residents staying in shelter overnight, monitoring resident activity to ensure safety, security, and compliance with house rules. It also involves maintaining accurate records, ensuring the shelter is neat and orderly, planning, preparing, cooking, and serving nutritional meals and snacks, and maintaining kitchen cleanliness and inventory.

Requirements

High school diploma or G.E.D.
One-year experience cooking food for large groups
One-year experience performing security or social service work preferred
Ability to cook, taste, and smell food

Nice To Haves

Any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

Responsibilities

Accepts and processes residents staying in shelter overnight.
Monitors the activity of residents on an assigned shift ensuring safety, security and compliance to house rules.
Maintains accurate and complete records and logs containing pertinent information.
Ensures that shelter is maintained in a neat and proper order.
Plans, prepares, cooks and serves nutritional meals and snacks in accordance with established guidelines and schedules.
Ensures all meals are prepared and served in a safe and presentable manner.
Cleans kitchen facilities, equipment, and appliances.
Maintains inventory of kitchen supplies and food in a neat and orderly manner.
Checks clients into the shelter; prepares and monitors client intake cards; determines if client has been prepaid by sponsor or credit; prepares resident roster and maintains resident property records.
Monitors the activities of the shelter residents ensuring safety and compliance with house rules; checks the security of all windows and doors; monitors cameras and makes periodic rounds of entire facility; records any unique situations occurring on assigned shift.
Completes required paperwork representing client intake for the day; inputs data into the computer in order to maintain computer records and generate client lists; prepares, tallies, and balances monies with receipts; drops the money in the safe.
Ensure that all rooms are in proper order before and after arrival of residents; checks fire equipment and ensures proper working order.
Responds to emergencies in a calm manner and initiates appropriate corrective actions in accordance with established policies and procedures.
Cleans, cooks, and prepares a variety of foods and beverages utilizing kitchen equipment, utensils, and supplies in accordance with acceptable and economical cooking methods.
Ensure that enough food is prepared based on the number of people to be served and that food is prepared in a timely manner as scheduled.
Maintains a high degree of cleanliness in the kitchen and dining room; ensures that all meals are prepared in a safe manner; ensures all kitchen personnel practice proper personal hygiene.