Dietary Aide (Dining Services II) - Rifle

Pueblo Community College; Colorado; On-site; USD 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Pueblo Community College seeks a Kitchen Helper for the Colorado Veterans Community Living Center at Rifle to assist cooks, prepare meals, and help maintain a safe, sanitary kitchen and dining area for residents and staff.

You will follow recipes, set tables, stock supplies, and support daily meal service, with in-service training and adherence to state and VA regulations.

Qualifications

• Six months of experience in an occupational field related to the work.
• CDPHE recognized food safety certification will substitute for experience.
• Experience in foodservice preferred, including hospital or living centers.

Responsibilities

• Serves meals, takes orders, and helps prepare and plate meals for residents.
• Sets and sanitizes tables; washes dishes and maintains dining areas.
• Acts as production assistant with food handling to ensure timely meals.
• Refills dispensers, stocks refrigerators, and transports food and beverages.
• Maintains storeroom and inventory following health and VA regulations.
• Cleans dining room and kitchen areas to meet sanitation requirements.
• Attends mandatory in-services and trainings.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job description

This position is open to current Colorado residents only.

Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.

This position is paid bi-weekly.

Office of Adult, Aging and Disability Services

CO State Veterans Community Living Center at Rifle

The Colorado State Veterans Community Living Center at Rifle is located on Colorado's western slope in the scenic Colorado River valley. Rifle offers a mild climate, with plenty of clean mountain air and beautiful blue skies. Amidst this setting, the State Veterans Community Living Center at Rifle provides 89 beds of skilled nursing care, including a 18-bed Special Care Unit for residents with Alzheimer's Disease or related conditions. Serving veterans, their spouse and eligible "Gold Star" parents, we are committed to caring for the whole person by addressing the personal and social needs of each resident, as well as their physical and medical requirements. All staff members of Rifle are committed to providing a life of qualify and dignity for every resident. At the Colorado State Veterans Community Living Center at Rifle, our staff is known for showing love and compassion to our residents. Giving residents a hug, holding their hand or sitting next to them on them on the arm of a chair are just a few of the ways we give care that comes from the heart.

http://www.colorado.gov/cdhs/veteranshomes/fitzsimons

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Shift Information: Tuesday and Wednesday 11:00 am - 7:30 pm; Thursday and Friday 5:30 am - 2:00 pm

Please note: These working arrangements are subject to change.

This position assists and supports the cooks in providing and performing cooking services (meals and specialty requests) that meet the needs and requests of the residents in the nursing home. This position also assists in maintaining a safe and sanitary kitchen, dining rooms and storage areas.

Job Duties:

• Serves meals, takes orders, cooks to order food, dishes up desserts and salads, puts out condiments, fruit and necessary food items.
• Sets, clears, and sanitizes tables; washes dishes, silverware, pots and pans and puts them away; rolls silverware andsets up dining rooms.
• Acts as a production assistant with regard to food handling as a cook, or cook helper preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner meals and other related functions to ensure timely and nutritious meals for residents and staff, to be done before, during and after all resident meals daily.
• Fills dispensers and stocks refrigerators, cleans juice and coffee machines and fills with product, stocks resident refrigerator and pantry with food and supplies, takes supplement and beverages to nursing service for distribution.
• Maintains store room bystocking, inventory, cleaning, organizing food and non-foods items to ensure sufficient food supplies and sanitary storage conditions, following State, Federal and VA regulations; ensure that residents have food, beverages and supplements as needed.
• Cleans dining room, sweeps and mops floors, cleans steam table, throws awaytrash, cleans dish room and mops floor daily to ensure sanitation and infection control requirements are completed, wipes down tables and chairs; puts on clean tablecloths, complete cleaning duties as assigned to ensure sanitation and infection control requirements are met and completed to ensure a pleasant and comfortable dining experience for residents.
• Attends all mandatory and non-mandatory in-services for department and facility.
• Attends all mandatory training and refresher courses deemed mandatory to ensure employee is updated and knowledgeable in necessary skills and education needed for this position and completes all necessary paperwork to comply with state, federal and VA regulations.
• Other duties as assigned

Employment history is calculated on a full-time basis (40/hrs per week). Part-time employment is calculated on a pro-rated basis to determine qualifications. Be sure your application specifically addresses your qualifications, experience, work products, and accomplishments as they relate to the position and minimum requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

Six months of experience in an occupational field related to the work

Substitutions:

CDPHE recognized food safety certification will substitute for experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in foodservice Certification ofServsafeClass
• Working in a Hospital or Living Centers

HIGHLY DESIRABLE COMPETENCIES:

• Knowledge of institutional food service procedures and practices,
• Knowledge of health requirements in the operation of a food service unit,
• Knowledge of health hazards in foodservice and the necessary precautionary measures,
• Knowledge of weights, measures, (e.g., food scales, measuring cups, and spoons), and food measurement techniques.
• Knowledge of techniques used in mixing food (e.g., gelatin, pancake batter, salad dressing, scrambled eggs, etc.).
• Knowledge of meat and vegetable preparation methods.
• Knowledge of cooking methods (e.g., frying, deep-fat frying, boiling, or baking).
• Knowledge of the use of kitchen utensils in serving or portioning meals.
• Knowledge of food safety related to handling and storing cooked foods, serving and storing temperatures, or reading food thermometers.
• Ability to read English at the level necessary for interpreting and understanding written recipes, menus, nourishment labels, diet slips, portioning sheets, and policies and procedures.
• Ability to understand and execute oral and written instructions,
• Ability to perform basic mathematics (addition,