Food Service Worker

This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the VA Medical Center in Baltimore MD.

Major Duties:

* Set up assigned station with the correct supplies and food items

* Serve food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers' /patients' /residents' plates

* Break down and clean the station when assigned

* Set up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary

* Return soiled trays and dishes to the dish room

* Deliver meal trays to the patients' bedsides and report the patients' comments and complaints to the supervisor or dietitian

* Prepare beverages according to the number of servings required

* Prepare fresh fruit/cold salads/dressings/sandwich fillings and cold sandwiches and simple cold desserts in specified quantities

* Sort, wash, peel and cut cold foods using knives or other equipment

* Provide assistance to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes

* Prepare uncooked food items, such as sandwich spread and salad dressings

* Operate and break down and clean all equipment assigned to food service and related areas

* Portion food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and specified dishware

* Prepare boxed/to go meals

* Select and place correct items on patient trays

* Read and interpret a regular or modified menu, individual diet cards, tray tickets or patient selections

* Identify obvious discrepancies between the prescribed diets and the food items designated by the menu

* Decide what food items to serve for the most common diets

* Perform heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas

* Separate food waste, trash/recyclables from dishes, glasses and silverware

* Unload food/tray delivery carts

* Store sanitized dishes, glasses and silverware

* Scrape, soak, scour, and scrub cookware and utensils

* Move garbage cans when collecting and transferring trash from the work area to the disposal area

* Other duties as assigned to meet the needs of the Medical Center

Work Schedule:

Rotating shifts in 3 week cycle with rotating days including weekends holidays.

Position Description Title/PD#:
Food Service Worker/PD99920S

Physical Requirements:

Work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often cause uncomfortably high temperatures and humidity. Performs work requiring light to moderate physical. 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. Subject to continuous standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending.

Frequently lifts or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 40 pounds with the assistance of others.