Food Service Worker

Encore Healthcare Services; Schaumburg (IL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Encore Village of Schaumburg is seeking Food Service Workers to support resident dining in Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living units. Full and part-time shifts available, with duties including menu selections, tray assembly, tray delivery, and accommodating special dietary needs.

Responsibilities involve coordinating with nursing staff, ensuring accurate tray tickets, maintaining cleanliness, and adhering to HACCP guidelines.

Qualifications

• Experience in hospital or long-term care food service preferred.
• Ability to follow dietary restrictions and modified diets.
• Good reading, writing and speaking skills.
• Willingness to work overtime, holidays and weekends when needed.

Responsibilities

• Take residents' menu selections prior to meals and assemble trays accordingly.
• Deliver trays to units and retrieve them, ensuring accuracy with tray tickets.
• Ensure dietary restrictions are followed and food allergies/sensitivities are considered.
• Interact with nursing staff to confirm diet prescriptions and resident needs.
• Maintain sanitation and HACCP compliance; keep work area clean and organized.

Skills

Customer service

Menu selections

Tray assembly

Food safety

HACCP

Sanitation

Communication

Overtime

Job description

Encore Village of Schaumburg is currently hiring for Food Service Workers. Full and part time shifts available. Will be responsible for resident food service on assigned units, including menu selections, tray assembly, tray delivery and pick-up special requests and needs, and in-between meal food delivery. Both in Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living Departments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Exhibits a friendly, caring attitude to residents when taking menu selections, delivering trays, inquiring during catering rounds and retrieving trays.
• Take residents menu selections prior to each meal.
• Complies with dietary restrictions on special, modified diets to ensure optimal food preferences are met within guidelines of diet order limitations.
• Offers alternatives to menu as allowed on prescribed diet in accordance with food allergies and sensitivities, cultural, ethnic and religious preferences, when resident inquires or needs additional selections.
• Assembles trays according to patients' menu selections on tray tickets in a timely and accurate manner.
• Interacts with nursing staff to ensure residents' diet prescriptions are accurate and food needs are met.
• Retrieves trays from resident's rooms.
• Maintains accurate and current information for each resident on assigned unit(s).
• Assists dietitian with monitoring of residents who are NPO, on liquid diets or have a calorie count ordered.
• Communicates any resident related problems/concerns to appropriate personnel in a timely manner following departmental procedures.
• Adheres to facility confidentiality and residents' rights policy.
• Contributes to resident satisfaction goals by providing quality service.
• Complies with federal, state and local health and sanitation regulations and department sanitation procedures.
• Maintains a clean and sanitary working environment.
• Follows HACCP guidelines when assembling and distributing food supplies to ensure quality and safety of food supply.
• Utilizes equipment in performing job functions according to department's safety procedures.
• Follows facility and departmental safety policies and procedures to include incident reporting.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Good communication skills; must be able to demonstrate effective reading, writing, speaking skills.
• Must be able to work overtime, holidays, weekends as assigned.
• Knowledge of sanitation, foodborne illnesses, and cross-contamination policies and procedures.

This organization does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of ancestry, race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, military status, veteran status, or disability. No question on the application is intended to secure information to be used for such discrimination. This application will be given every consideration, however its receipt does not imply employment for the applicant.