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Heartland Health
Food Service Helper / Dietary East Kitchen
Job Location: SAINT JOSEPH, MO
Job Type: Part-time
Department:
Dietary East Kitchen
Facility:
HRMC
Shift:
Day
Hours:
16 hrs/wk / 12, 12:30, 4, 5
Temp/Non-Temp:
Regular HH Emp
Positions Available:
1
Type of Benefits Available:
Part-Time Benefits
Job Description:
The Food Service Helper works under the supervision of Manager-Dietary. Performs duties involving patient meal service including assembling trays, and nourishments and sanitation functions of the dietary area.
Performs other duties as assigned.
BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES
Employees are responsible for the following RESPECT Plus Core Behaviors as defined in the RESPECT Plus document:
Accountability
Communication
Appearance
Confidentiality/Privacy
Attitude
Courtesy
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Employees in this position are responsible for the following functional competencies:
Adaptability
Impact
Communication
Job Fit
Contributing to Team Success
Work Standards
Customer Focus
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Employees in this position perform the following technical competencies:
Assembles patient trays according to the tray tickets using the standards for plate presentation and garnishing.
Processes all food and operates equipment according to sanitation and safety regulations.
Portions food for patients.
Deliver and retrieves completed carts to and from nursing stations.
Accurately assembles carry up trays according to the patient's dietary restrictions. Delivers carry up trays to patients in a timely manner and follows established procedure.
Assembles floor stock nourishments as requisitioned.
Sets up and operates dish machine and pot and pan area in accordance with sanitation and
safety regulations.
Empties trash; sweeps and mops dietary area. Maintains clean working area to meet sanitation requirements.
Completes assigned data collection for quality measures (i.e. dish machine temperatures, equipment temperatures).
Job Qualifications:
EDUCATION: High School or equivalent.
LICENSURE: NA
EXPERIENCE: None required.
ESSENTIAL TECHNICAL/MOTOR SKILLS: Ability to use fine motor skills and hand/eye coordination to portion food selections and place on a moving belt. Ability to manipulate various pieces of equipment.
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS: Cooperates with fellow employees and has good customer skills.
ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Ability to stand at long lengths of time on trayline to assemble trays, reach for items; lifts pans of food (20 lbs.); twisting side to side; move from trayline to patient floors and around department; push/pull loaded meal carts (on a tile floor initial push force is 13.2 pounds and sustained is 7 pounds and pulling 20 pounds initial and 7 pounds sustained. On carpet, push 22.2 pounds initial and 16 pounds sustained, pulling on carpet 16.4 pounds initial and 12 pounds sustained. ). Stands entire shift. Ability to lift dishware (25 lbs.) and place on dish machine; reach to remove items; crouch to clean carts; push clean carts and lowerators of dishware; operates dish machine, empties trash (40 lbs.), sweeps and mops floors, bend to wash pots and pans.
ESSENTIAL MENTAL ABILITIES: Ability to comprehend menu selections for restrictive dietary needs. Use long term memory to correctly assemble trays. Organize workflow process to meet meal service time deadlines and to set up trayline and assemble late trays and floor stock nourishments.
ESSENTIAL SENSORY REQUIREMENTS: Ability to visually see in order to read tray tickets, schedules, memos and policyprocedures. Ability to visually identify special diet food items; distinguish colors of diet kits and menus; visually inspect patient menu to determine food selection. Ability to smell food product to determine proper quality.
EXPOSURE TO HAZARDS: Chemicals, burns, slips; back injuries; body secretions and blood from patient trays.
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Job Number
08-1954
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Company Summary:
Located in beautiful St. Joseph, Missouri, a city named as an "All America City," Heartland Health is an integrated health delivery system, which includes a medical center, physician practices, foundation and a health plan. Our flagship facility is Heartland Regional Medical Center (HRMC), which consists of 351 staffed acute care beds in a Level II trauma hospital. HRMC is JCAHO-accredited, and serves a regional population of 294,000 in Missouri, Kansas and the bordering counties in Nebraska and Iowa.
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