Culinary Associate, PRN

Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center; Findlay (OH); On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center is seeking a dietary services associate to serve residents and guests, ensuring meals meet therapeutic needs and appearance standards. You will uphold safety, cleanliness, and regulatory compliance while maintaining open communication with management.

The role emphasizes attention to detail, basic math, and strong customer service to support a positive dining experience in a hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence and speak in sentences.
• Ability to deal with standardized situations with minimal variables.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietary services to residents and internal/external customers.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for quality food service.
• Maintain a safe and sanitary dietary department.
• Serve meals according to therapeutic diets and ensure appetizing presentation.
• Ensure servings match residents' choices and portion sizes.
• Ensure items are available and prepared as ordered.
• Adhere to dress standards and attend meetings and training.
• Promote service excellence and resident satisfaction.
• Comply with policies and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain communication with management on situations.
• Keep dining areas clean and sanitary; monitor beverage supplies.
• Complete required e-learning within assigned time frame.

Skills

Reading comprehension

Basic math

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Customer service

Job description

PURPOSE OF THIS POSITION

This position is the designated point of contact with the residents. This position offers service excellence and quality meals.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Duty 1: Demonstrates the knowledge and skill necessary to provide dietary services to the needs of both internal and external customers.
• Duty 2: Demonstrates leadership and personal accountability for performance to ensure quality food service is given to each and every customer
• Duty 3: Maintains the dietary department in a safe and sanitary manner.
• Duty 4: Serves meals as needed to comply with therapeutic diets ensuring they are presentable in appearance and palatable
• Duty 5: Making sure to serve what the resident choose in the correct portion size.
• Duty 6: Ensure that all ordered items are available and prepared
• Duty 7: Adheres to the unit standards of dress, and attend all scheduled meetings as well as mandatory competency training.
• Duty 8: Displays service excellence as evidenced by practicing the mission and values of the organization to promote resident satisfaction.
• Duty 9: Complies with organizational policies, procedures and practices to ensure quality job performance and regulatory compliance.
• Duty 10: Maintains communications with management regarding all situations.
• Duty 11: Keeping area clean so we are meeting our sanitary requirements
• Duty 12: Complete net learning in the assigned time frame and keeping email active
• Duty 13: Be aware of safety hazards and report them promptly
• Duty 14: Keep area where working clean and sanitary. Monitor dining areas prior to and after meals to ensure that tables, chairs and utensils are clean. Condiments receptacle should be restocked every meal. Monitor beverage supplies, prepare, and serve beverages for each meal according to schedule

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 16 years old
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to speak in sentences. Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables. Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers. Ability to count.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in customer service preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMAND

This position requires a full range of body motions with constant walking, lifting, bending, squatting, kneeling, twisting, and standing. The associate will be required to sit for up to one hour a day, stand for four to six hours a day and walk for one hour a day. The individual must be able to lift twenty to fifty pounds and reach work above the shoulders. The individual must have good eye-hand coordination and fine finger dexterity for simple grasping tasks. The individual must have excellent verbal communication skills to perform daily tasks. The associate must have corrected vision and hearing in the normal range.