Patient Meal Service Technician

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Marion (IN); On-site; USD 33,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, NIHCS in Marion, Indiana, is hiring a Food Service Worker within Nutrition & Food Service. The role involves frontline food preparation, tray assembly, and delivering meals to patients.

You will assist cooks, manage diet trays per prescribed diets, maintain sanitation, operate a computer terminal for recipes and inventory, and support nutrition services to patients. This is a full-time federal position with typical benefits.

Responsibilities

• Set up assigned station on the tray line with the correct supplies and food items.
• Deliver meal trays to the patients' bedsides and report the patients' comments and complaints to the supervisor or dietitian.
• Prepare beverages according to the number of servings required.
• Prepare fresh fruit/cold salads/dressings/sandwich fillings and cold sandwiches and simple cold desserts in specified quantities.
• Provide assistance to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes.
• Portion other food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and specified dishware.
• Make final check of diet trays assembled by lower grade workers for completeness, correct food temperatures.
• Verify that food items on the tray are appropriate for the prescribed diet.
• Identify obvious discrepancies between the prescribed diets and the food items designated by the menu.
• Provide patients with basic information about modified diets and the nutrition services that are available.
• Prepare individual and bulk nourishments and supplemental foods and beverages for patients.
• Follow directions in assembling, measuring, weighing, or mixing ingredients for basic formulas and supplemental feedings following standardized recipes and using sanitary techniques.
• Determine the quantities of ingredients needed to prepare required yield.
• Take nourishment inventories, stocking using first in-first out procedures, replacing expired items.
• Label and distribute individual nourishments.
• Sterilize equipment and sanitize work areas.
• Use a computer terminal to record and retrieve recipe, menu and inventory data and to produce reports

Job description

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, NIHCS in Marion, Indiana, is hiring a Food Service Worker within Nutrition & Food Service. The role involves frontline food preparation, tray assembly, and delivering meals to patients.

You will assist cooks, manage diet trays per prescribed diets, maintain sanitation, operate a computer terminal for recipes and inventory, and support nutrition services to patients. This is a full-time federal position with typical benefits.