Kitchen Staff and Teacher Aid; Part Time Hartford, CT

Overview

Summary
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Year Round Position. Monday - Friday. 7:30-1:30. $16.75/hour. Visit YWCA Hartford Region website to formally apply for this position.

Position Summary: The Kitchen Staff and Teacher Aid will assist the Site Manager in providing a supportive, respectful, safe and healthy environment for children enrolled in YWCA Early Learning Centers. The position will be responsible for all meal preparations: prepping breakfast and PM snack and plating and serving lunch to each classroom. Additionally, the role will know all the food safety and CACFP procedures.

The Kitchen Staff and Teacher Aid will monitor the kitchen inventory and keep the kitchen organized, clean and sanitary at all times. The role may be asked to support classrooms by stepping into ratio or to cover another employee’s break.

• Compliance: Ensures the temperature of hot meals are served between 140 to 180 degrees Fahrenheit, and all cold meals are no higher than 40 degrees and documents at each mealtime; ensures a thermometer is in each refrigerator with a temperature that reads 40 degrees or below and the freezer is at 0 degrees; stores food properly in cold storage and cabinets;
  
  maintains all areas to health code standards; reports any mishaps and/or concerns in the kitchen to the Site Manager.
• Documentation, Inventory, and Recordkeeping: Logs the number of lunches ordered and delivered; checks kitchen inventory, and restocks the items as needed; reports any inventory needs when low to the Site Manager; follows daily food menu and marks on all menus when changes are made; ensures Site Manager is kept up to date on all meal preparations (delivery, prep, inventory, etc.).
• Preparation and Organization: Prepares meals to be served as family style eating; prepares breakfast and PM snack; organizes the kitchen station with all the required equipment; assists in classroom preparedness and stocks necessary supplies in each classroom; assists in unloading deliveries (including all kitchen deliveries) and properly puts away supplies.
• Sanitation: Ensures the kitchen is always clean and sanitized; cleans the trash bins weekly or as needed; adheres to all the food hygiene and sanitation.
• Training and Support: Attends annual CACFP training; the ability to complete and obtain a Safe Serve course if applicable; completes OEC training on health and safety as assigned annually; supports classroom ratio if needed and willing to travel if needed; other duties as assigned.

• Education: High School Diploma or GED.
• Experience: 18 years of age or older; CPR/First Aid certification or certification within two months of employment.

• Seeks to cultivate and develop professional working relationships with key stakeholders, i.e., staff, volunteers, interns, board members, etc.
• Demonstrated skill in the understanding of others; engages in personal and professional development; demonstrates a willingness to examine one’s assumptions and attitudes; maintains productive work relationships while considering multiple perspectives; demonstrates awareness of one’s and others’ life experiences and their relevance in the workplace; experience resolving conflicts effectively; promotes a respectful work environment in which concerns are addressed effectively.

• Approachability:
  Listens; allows adequate time for interactions; creates a supportive communication environment.
• Composure:
  Responds to information and situations in a self-controlled manner.
• Customer Focus:
  Builds effective relationships with customers, identifies customer expectations, and empathizes from their point of view; offers practical solutions to concerns.
• Emotional Intelligence:
  Recognizes and values different ideas of others; empathetically and respectfully accepts these differences and works cooperatively to optimize contributions of all individuals.
• Ethics and Integrity:
  Makes decisions and conducts self in a manner consistent with the organization’s mission; respects all individuals in the work environment.
• Personal Accountability:
  Accepts responsibility for own actions; embraces experiences as learning opportunities.
• Self-Development:
  Accepts responsibility for own continued education, learning and growth.
• Results Oriented:
  Directs behavior to emphasize the achievement of organization goals and core values.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Possesses the knowledge and abilities necessary to perform to high personal standards of acceptance, reliability, openness and consistency of action with words.
• Work Relationships:
  Builds productive relationships in the workplace.

Non-benefited role