Food Service Worker

Job Title

Food Service Worker/PD99836S

Duties

Act as Senior Food Service Worker and provide a broad knowledge of service operations, such as food and beverage preparation, modified diets, computer proficiency, dishwashing, dry and refrigerated storage, and safety and sanitation to the team. Perform all duties of all lower grade levels but help with making patient selections, thickening items, and checking trays. Set up assigned station on the tray line with the correct supplies and food items. Set up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary. Assist cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes. Make final check of diet trays assembled by lower grade workers for completeness, correct food temperatures. Verify that food items on the tray are appropriate for the prescribed diet. Identify obvious discrepancies between the prescribed diets and the food items designated by the menu. Provide patients with basic information about modified diets and the nutrition services that are available. Determine the quantities of ingredients needed to prepare required yield. Make conversions between the metric system to the standard system. Take nourishment inventories, stock using first in-first out procedures, replacing expired items. Work in one or more functional areas of the kitchen such as food preparation, dish and pot washing, dry and refrigerated storage and receiving, and the serving line. Assist cooks in the food preparation area including assembling, labeling, and arranging completed recipe items in preparation for use by cooks. Use a computer terminal to record and retrieve recipe, menu, and inventory data and to produce reports. Perform other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: To be discussed during the interview process. Physical Requirements: Perform work requiring light to moderate physical effort. Food Service Workers may be required to perform heavy work, such as scouring and scrubbing large size cooking utensils and pushing heavy carts and trucks in unloading, storing, and delivering supplies. They are subject to continuous standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending. May be required to work on ladders and use powered cleaning equipment. They frequently lift or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 40 pounds with the assistance of others.

Work Conditions: The work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often cause uncomfortably high temperatures and humidity. The work area is well lit but usually noisy from food service activities, and there is danger of slipping on floors where food or beverages have been dropped. Food service workers are regularly exposed to hot liquids, sharp cutting blades, hot working surfaces, and extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigeration or freezing units.