Food Service Worker

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Montrose (NY); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Campus (VA Hudson Valley Health Care System) in Montrose, NY, is seeking a Food Service Worker. The role involves cleaning, meal preparation, tray distribution to patients, and ensuring dietary accuracy within a hospital kitchen environment.

Schedule will vary, with intermittent shifts. Applicants should be prepared to work in high-heat kitchen conditions and perform physical tasks; career offers opportunities in a federal

Qualifications

• Experience providing food service in a healthcare or institutional setting.
• Ability to follow safety and sanitation protocols.
• Evidence of ability to perform duties with reliability and dependability.

Responsibilities

• Cleans serving areas by sweeping and mopping floors and sanitizing surfaces and equipment.
• Operates dishwashers and cart washing station.
• Delivers meals to patient rooms and assists with tray delivery as needed.
• Sets up serving areas with hot and cold foods and ensures proper diet accuracy on trays.
• Performs routine maintenance on equipment and handles heavy items with assistance as required.

Skills

Food service experience

Sanitation procedures

Safety compliance

Tools

Kitchen equipment

Job description

Summary

This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Campus of the VA Hudson Valley Health Care System in Montrose - New York.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position - applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required - but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge - skills - and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards. SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element - which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience - including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. - Peace Corps - AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g. - professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies - knowledge - and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience - including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Duties

• Cleans serving areas by sweeping and mopping floors - cleaning/sanitizing work surfaces - and other food service equipment - such as refrigerators - toaster - and coffee machines
• Cleans production equipment including steam jacketed kettles - tilt skillets - etc
• using appropriate and safe sanitation techniques
• Loads and operates dishwashers and cart washing station
• Performs necessary preventative maintenance on equipment
• Transports tray carts to wards and individually delivers trays directly to the patient's bedside or assists patients with transport of their meal trays
• Sets-up serving areas with hot and cold foods - keeping foods appropriately stocked during meal service Identifies discrepancies between the prescribed diet and/or listed food allergies and the food items listed on the tray ticket
• Assembles a variety of items while working in cold food preparation and nourishment area
• Make cold sandwiches using prepared ingredients
• Performing other duties as assigned
• Work Schedule: Intermittent - Schedule will vary
• Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker/PD99921S 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
• Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications
• For this position - the job element method is used to match what you - the applicant - can do against what the work calls for
• Your knowledge - skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge - skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success
• Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element - Reliability and Dependability
• Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating
• those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration
• The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements
• While a specific length of training and experience is not required - your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.