This position is responsible for leading and directing Wage Grade personnel working in the food service and food production units. In this capacity employee encourages and coordinates employees to fully utilize their time and to complete their assigned tasks in a satisfactory manner. Incumbent uses judgment in recognizing work objectives and in planning and organizing duties to accomplish those objectives. Work Leader must have a thorough understanding of the types of food served all diets including modified diets and combination of these diets. This position reports to the Supervisory Dietitian.
Lead duties and responsibilities include:
- Leads the activities of the production and service areas
- Reviews daily work assignments and makes adjustments accordingly
- Communicates instructions and information to employees concerning work to be accomplished
- Relays any problems and/or events to supervisors and managers
- Provides on the job training to lower graded food service workers and documents training
- Completes safety and sanitation inspection checks
- Ensures food production and service areas are properly set up
- Performs final check of trays for proper temperature and accuracy as indicated on tray ticket
- Observes work performance of employees and provides feedback to supervisors
- Participates in performance improvement programs and documents quality improvement data
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Food service duties and responsibilities include: - Sets up tray line station with correct supplies and food items
- Serves food, cafeteria style
- Breaks down and cleans assigned station
- Sets up dining room tables for service
- Delivers meal trays to patients' bedside and reports comments and/or complaints to supervisor or dietitian
- Prepares individual and bulk nourishments and supplemental foods/beverages
- Determines the quantities of ingredients needed
- Makes conversions between the metric system to standard system
- Performs heavy duty cleaning tasks throughout food service areas
- Provides assistance to cooks in the food preparation areas
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: 1130a-8p with rotating weekends and holidays.
Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker Leader and Trainer/PD99918S
Physical Requirements: 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. May be required to work on ladders. Frequently lift or move objects waiting weighing 18 kilograms (40 pounds) and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 60 pounds.
Working Conditions: Work is performed in the kitchen areas. Steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often causes uncomfortably high temperatures and high humidity. Work area is well lighted and noise levels exist from food service activities. Danger of slipping on floors where food or beverages have been dropped. Regularly exposed to hot liquids, sharp cutting blades, hot working surfaces and extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigeration or freezing units.
Starting at $24.77 Per Hour (WL 4)
