Restaurant Server - Senior Living

Homestead Hills; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

Homestead Hills in Winston-Salem is seeking a Server to provide food and beverage service to residents and guests. Responsibilities include serving meals, maintaining cleanliness in the dining area, and assisting with special functions.

The ideal candidate will have 1-2 years of experience and a ServSafe certification is preferred. This position requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to work in a team-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years’ experience in a similar position desired.
• ServSafe certification preferred; employer can assist with obtaining certification.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English fluently.
• Ability to meet or exceed the company’s attendance and punctuality standards.
• Proficiency with miscellaneous software and office equipment.
• Ability to follow directions as given.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Serve meals and bus tables with a warm, friendly demeanor.
• Assist team members in dining room preparation before and after meals.
• Participate in the training of new team members.
• Clear tables and maintain a clean and attractive dining room.
• Perform cleaning duties according to schedule.
• Maintain a safe and clutter-free environment.
• Store and retrieve residents’ assistive devices during mealtimes.
• Participate in all required training and education programs.

Skills

Technical Skills

Communication

Initiative

Flexibility

Interpersonal Skills

Teamwork

Professionalism

Ethics

Job description

Position Summary

Server provides food and beverage service tableside to residents, resident families, and guests. This position maintains the cleanliness of the dining room, service stations, beverage machines, and all other work areas.

Regular Hours

Shift schedule: 1:00–8:00 pm (weekdays) and 10:30 am–3:00 pm on Sundays, rotating weekends.

Essential Functions

• Serve meals and bus tables with a warm, friendly, courteous, respectful, and engaging demeanor.
• Assist team members by setting up and breaking down dining room tables and wait stations before and after meals, ensuring the dining room is prepared for the next service.
• Participate in the training of new team members.
• Assist with dining service for special functions, private dining events, and special guests.
• Clear tables, replace linens, set tables, and maintain a clean and attractive dining room.
• Clean equipment, furniture, appliances, floors, drains, storage area, refrigerator, freezer, and sinks according to schedule.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and clutter‑free environment.
• Store and retrieve residents’ assistive devices during mealtimes, ensuring safety is never compromised.
• Participate in and attend all required in‑service training and education programs as scheduled.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Technical Skills: Demonstrate current and ongoing competence in assigned tasks, indicating a specialized skill level above average.
• Communication: Effectively transfer information to necessary parties to improve work quality and provide accurate data to supervisors.
• Initiative: Self‑motivated and competitive; seeks additional work when capacity allows and offers new ideas and solutions to supervisors.
• Flexibility: Quickly adapt to changing conditions and navigate obstacles with ease and professionalism.
• Interpersonal Skills: Resolve conflicts without blame, listen without interrupting, control emotions, remain open to ideas, and try new things.
• Teamwork: Balance team and individual responsibilities; encourage others and seek help when needed; exhibit patience and compassion.
• Professionalism: Deliver products on time, maintain high quality, assume responsibility for mistakes, present oneself in a manner enhancing brand image, and conduct online or social networking activities responsibly.
• Ethics: Treat people with respect, keep commitments, inspire trust, work ethically with integrity, and uphold the company’s guiding principles:
  • People First, Always
  • We Exist to Serve our Members
  • We Have a Responsibility to be Full

Qualifications

• 1–2 years’ experience in a similar position desired.
• ServSafe certification preferred; employer can assist with obtaining certification.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English fluently.
• Ability to meet or exceed the company’s attendance and punctuality standards.
• Proficiency with miscellaneous software and office equipment.
• Ability to follow directions as given.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• Stand, walk, sit, use hands to manipulate objects, reach with arms, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk, hear, taste, and/or smell.
• Lift or carry up to 50 lbs.
• Remain free of communicable diseases during the performance of responsibilities.
• Possible exposure to minimal-to-moderate noise, blood and/or body fluids; may encounter traumatic situations including psychiatric and deceased residents.

Travel

No travel is expected; occasional travel may be required for training sessions, continuing education opportunities, emergency situations, and other company functions.