Food Service Worker (full - time)

Food Service Worker

This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the VA Boston Healthcare System within Visn 1. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week at the West Roxbury VA Medical facility. Responsibilities include providing on-going instructions and demonstrating proper work methods to lower grade personnel, preparing and delivering between meal nourishment and necessary tube feedings, conducting hydration and snack deliveries to patients twice daily as requested, checking menus, unit orders, and portioning guide for completeness and accuracy, assisting patients with diet restrictions with daily meal choices, setting up cold food items such as salads, desserts, and cold beverages, performing basic food preparation activities such as toast, egg, and coffee preparation, assisting cooks by weighting and/or measuring ingredients and labeling them for use in the production area, making salads including molded salads from prepared vegetables and fruits, responsible for correct portioning of salads, desserts, condiments, and beverages for tray serving units and cafeteria, checking work in progress to insure compliance with written guidelines and instructions from the supervisor, responsible for placing the regular selective or modified diet cards and menu during serving operations, checking food as it comes from preparation area to determine correctness, quality, and temperature, responsible for sanitation and proper handling of equipment, supplies, utensils, and dishes used in preparation areas, participating in cleaning the work area, serving unit, and/or dining room including floors, equipment, tables, etc., maintaining familiarity with all equipment in the unit and reporting maintenance issue to the supervisor, reading and interpreting regular and modified menu, individual diet cards, or patient selections and placing correct items on patient trays. The incumbent has a high level of skills and abilities for providing patient centered care and exceptional customer service. Daily interaction with veterans to obtain menu selections. Work Schedule: Full-time, Thursday-Monday, 10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., (Days off Tues/Wed), Schedule is subject to change.