Food Service Worker

Introduction

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Join our team as a Food Service Worker at the DE Hospital for the Chronically Ill! In this role, you’ll support the residents here from the kitchen and beyond. You’ll serve their daily meals while ensuring Food Code regulations are in place for food safety and sanitation purposes. You’ll also assist in supplying each unit with snacks and supplies as needed.

• Performs food service work using proper food preparation, handling, and sanitation methods and techniques in compliance with applicable laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures promoting nutrition, health, and safety of clients.
• Sets up serving line by gathering utensils, food, and supplies needed for the serving process.
• Prepares meal trays by placing the correct portion of appropriate foods from serving pots or pans onto each tray.
• Loads completed meal trays or food pans into carts, delivers loaded carts to the proper location, and returns carts and trays to the kitchen after individuals have completed meals.
• Assists cooks by opening cans, slicing and chopping food items, preparing beverages, and making sandwiches or bulk salads.
• Cleans and disinfects a variety of surfaces, areas, and equipment such as meal carts, kitchen appliances, tables, and counters; sweeps and mops floors; empties trash containers; and performs other related duties to ensure the food preparation and serving areas are clean and sanitary.
• Uses brooms, wet or dry mops, sponges, pails or buckets, and mixtures of water and chemical solutions or disinfectant.
• Perform all phases of the dishwashing process.
• Maintains various records on work performed which may include using automated information systems and computer software to enter, update, modify, delete, retrieve, or report on data.
• Completes and maintains competency in required training.
• Communicates and interacts effectively with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, ages, and races.
• Performs other related duties as required.

• Knowledge of record keeping.

This position is a classification organized under an exclusive bargaining representative (labor organization) that has been elected by employees as their representative for collective bargaining and other applicable terms and conditions of employment, in accordance with Title 29, Chapter 59 and Title 19, Chapter 13 and 16. This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement based on its individual terms.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The State of Delaware participates in E‑Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I‑9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. DHSS does not provide employment‑based sponsorship. Criminal background check: A satisfactory criminal background check is required as a condition of hire.

The recruiting agency may require the applicant to pay for the criminal background check as part of the conditional offer of hire. Pre‑employment drug testing:
Upon a conditional offer, you must undergo pre‑employment drug testing as part of the hiring process. Upon a conditional offer, the applicant must undergo a pre‑employment baseline two‑step tuberculin skin test (TST) as part of the hiring process. All new hires are required to report to the Statewide New Employee Orientation (SNEO) on their first day of employment. Sessions are held at designated locations in Kent…