Food Service Worker - Bedford, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs

Description

Summary

The Food Service Worker Leader position is located in the Nutrition and Food Services located at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bedford, Massachusetts.

The primary purpose of this position is to perform and lead employees in food service operations including food handling, preparation, storage and delivery. This is a full-time position working 40 hours.

Duties

This position is located in the Nutrition and Food Services within the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Administration. 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 include, but not limited to:

• 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: 3 Week Rotating Schedule

6:15am to 2:45pm

11:30am to 8:00pm

7:30 to 4:00pm

*Sat/Sun off every three weeks. Tues/Weds off every three weeks. There are split days off.

Compressed/Flexible Work Schedule: Not Authorized

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position

Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker (Leader)/PD99919S

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Physical Requirements: The work performed requires some light to 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 sitting, standing, 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 assistance of others.

Notification:

• This position is a NAGE Bargaining Unit position.
• This is in the Competitive Service