Food Service Worker Leader

Food Service Worker Leader

This position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the VA Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The primary purpose of this position is to perform and lead employees in food service operations including food handling, preparation, storage, and delivery.

Lead Duties and Responsibilities

Lead duties and responsibilities include:

• Leading the activities of the production and service areas
• Reviewing daily work assignments and making adjustments accordingly
• Communicating instructions and information to employees concerning work to be accomplished
• Relaying any problems and/or events to supervisors and managers
• Providing on-the-job training to lower graded food service workers and documenting training
• Completing safety and sanitation inspection checks
• Ensuring food production and service areas are properly set up
• Performing final check of trays for proper temperature and accuracy
• Observing work performance of employees and providing feedback to supervisors
• Participating in performance improvement programs and documenting quality improvement data
• Performing other related duties as assigned

Food Service Duties and Responsibilities

Food service duties and responsibilities include:

• Setting up tray line station with correct supplies and food items
• Serving food, cafeteria style
• Breaking down and cleaning assigned station
• Setting up dining room tables for service
• Delivering meal trays to patients' bedside and reporting comments and/or complaints to supervisor or dietitian
• Preparing individual and bulk nourishments and supplemental foods/beverages
• Determining the quantities of ingredients needed
• Making conversions between the metric system to standard system
• Performing heavy duty cleaning tasks throughout food service areas
• Providing assistance to cooks in the food preparation areas
• Performing other related duties as assigned

Work Schedule: 5:00am-1:30pm, 6:00am-2:30pm, 11:00am-7:30pm, 2 out of 3 weekends

Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker Leader/ 99919-S

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements Conditions of Employment:

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Proficient in oral and written English
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Physical Requirements: The Work leader performs work requiring light to moderate physical effort. They 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 sitting, standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending. 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.

Working 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-lighted 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. May be unknowingly exposed to patients who have contagious disease.

Education:

There are no education requirements for this announcement.

Additional Information:

Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.

Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator.

The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy.