Foodservice Lead

• Acts as the Designated PIC (See “Authority & Chain of Command, Food service” Policy) at assigned times or shifts.
• Opens or Closes department:
  Lock / unlock doors, equipment, safe for cash handling
• Covers Call Off’s:
  Manipulates schedule to cover open shifts by calling in other employees or asking staff to stay.
• Solicits and encourages staff suggestions for process improvements
• Works to promote a team environment and open communication within the work area.
• Monitors, clears alerts/alarms, and takes appropriate corrective action when necessary
• Takes and records food temperatures of food being held for service. Takes corrective action when necessary.
• Ensures recipe compliance, performs, or inputs test trays, patient rounding, communication with CDO, timely execution of tray line, enforces tray standards.
• Cash handling as instructed, temperature monitoring, staff monitoring. sanitation monitoring, portion control, customer service
• Updates daily communication boards with information including counts, product outages, PIC name, etc.
• Monitors cleaning assignments or cleaning assignments lists, monitors staff to ensure they are cleaning and sanitizing correctly.
• Monitor staff tasks to completion and acts a mentor to staff. May train staff
• Places maintenance requests for broken equipment to Facilities
• Additionally, Leads perform daily tasks in their area of focus as part of a workflow that is separate from Lead Duties.

• Read and interpret patient meal tickets, read and confirm patient identifiers, recipes, ingredients, labels and dating.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.