Overview of Role / Essential Job Functions
Performs a variety of tasks usually not requiring cooking skills in the preparation, service and clean up of meals served to residents and staff in the nursing center and other special events.
Every effort has been made to make your job description as complete as possible. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or is a logical assignment to the position.
Resident Rights/ Safety and Sanitation/ Staff Development
Resident Rights
- Knows and respects patient rights.
- Ensures all protected health information is kept confidential.
- Reports all complaints made by patients to supervisor.
- Reports all allegations of resident abuse, neglect and/or misappropriation of patient properly.
Safety and Sanitation
- Follows established safety policies and procedures.
- Observes safety needs of patient as indicated in care plan.
- Wears and/or uses safety equipment and supplies when indicated and properly trained to use.
- Demonstrates job-specific knowledge of fire and disaster preparedness during drills or actual situations.
Staff Development
- Attends and participates in scheduled in-service training, educational classes and meetings, including safety committee.
- Participates in QAA process.
Responsibilities
Food Preparation/Production Responsibilities
- Assists cook as directed by the food service director
- Prepares and labels nourishments according to center procedures
- Prepares and portions desserts, salads and other non-entrée foods into dishes; pours beverages
- Follows production sheets and pre-preparation sheets or guidelines when appropriate
Sanitation Responsibilities
- Sweeps and mops kitchen floors as assigned
- Takes trash to the dumpster
- Washes dishes and silverware according to dishwasher procedure
- Puts clean dishes and silverware away
- Maintains clean, neat, and orderly work areas
- Assists with cleaning of equipment, dishes, silverware and kitchen as assigned
- Washes pots and pans if assigned
- Does cleaning assignments
Meal Service Responsibilities
- Sets dining room tables for meals when assigned
- Works on meal tray serving line. Sets-up before start of meal service. Breaks down area and cleans-up at end of serving line
- Reads and follows tray ticket when serving meals
- Serves meal trays to resident and pour beverages for residents when assigned dining room
- Clears tables of dishes and trash
- Pushes food carts to appropriate resident care areas
- Communicates with resident during meal times when serving in dining areas
Food Safety Responsibilities
- Use safe food handling techniques as identified in the GNS Dietary Procedures Manual – Food Service Management, HACCP, state and federal codes and regulations
- Uses proper hand washing techniques
- Thaws food appropriately
- Stores food using correct packaging and labeling
- Uses gloves appropriately and changes when required
- Checks refrigerators and freezers for correct temperatures. Notifies food service director of problems
- Follows the cleaning schedule
- Cleans the equipment and work area after each use.
- Cools, stores, and reheats cooked foods according to procedures
- Does cleaning assignments
- Maintains neat, clean and orderly work areas
- Performs any miscellaneous work assignments as may be required
Education/ Experience/ Physical Demands
Education and Experience
- Ability to read and understand directions required
- Experience not needed, but preferred
Physical Demands
- Lifting 60 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighting 25 pounds. Stooping, standing, walking, smelling, color vision, reaching, handling, and pushing
Working Conditions/ Principal Contacts
Working conditions
- Some exposure to disagreeable conditions including odors, infection, illness, and physical contact form disruptive residents
- Inside with exposure to heat, cold, and wet conditions
Principal Contacts
- Works with elderly residents, families, and other health care staff members
General Requirements
Must be able to execute the terms and conditions set forth in the Good Neighbor Society Handbook, including, but not limited to:
- Works in a safety-conscious manner, which ensures that safe work practices are used in order not to pose a risk to self or others in the workplace. Reports any safely violations or hazards to supervisor.
- Complies with company policies and procedures and local, state, and federal regulations.
- Adheres to policy on Drug-Free Workplace
- Interacts in a tactful, diplomatic, and humanistic manner with residents, families, visitors, and co-workers to provide a safe, efficient, and therapeutically effective caring environment which ensures the self-respect, personal dignity, rights and physical safety of each resident and facility guest.
- Maintains a dependable attendance record and adheres to standards of cleanliness, grooming, hygiene, and dress code.
- Takes positive action to ensure equal opportunity in the conduct of all business activities without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, age, national origin, disability, citizenship, veteran status or any other legal protected category.
