Cafeteria Aide
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Job Summary
Responsible for ensuring that sanitation practices and procedures are followed according to the meal program standards, guidelines, and regulations.
Primary Functions
- Ensure that food service dishes and food service equipment are clean and sanitized.
- Operate and ensure that the automatic dishwasher is functioning properly.
- Help maintain an organized and clean work environment in the kitchen and cafeteria dining room.
- Assist with the delivery of classroom meals.
- Assist with storing food and non-food products.
- Practice good personal hygiene and sanitation practices always.
- Provide coverage with any additional duties and or work schedules as assigned by Nutrition Services Manager.
Secondary Functions
- Help with special activities, as requested by supervisor.
Requirements:
Educational, Training, and Licensure Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Five years of experience in institutional, commercial, or school food service required.
- Continued Education hours as required by KSDE.
- Must have or obtain a food safety basics certificate from KSDE within six months of hire date.
- Must successfully complete all required orientation and training conducted by Heartspring staff.
- Heartspring Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI) certification.
- Heartspring First Aid & CPR certification
Knowledge and Skills
- Must have good interpersonal communication skills.
- Dependability – job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and to fulfill obligations.
- Food Production – knowledge of techniques and equipment for preparing food for consumption, including
- Occasional exposure to infectious disease, parasites, bodily fluids, and blood-borne pathogens.
- Knowledge of safe handling and proper storage techniques.
- Speaking – the ability to communicate orally in order to convey information effectively.
- Team-oriented – capable of working effectively within a team environment.
- Technology – job requires the ability to use/operate a standard computer system and hand-held devices.
Physical Requirements
- Must prove TB-negative status (either through skin test or examination).
- Frequent standing, walking, bending.
- Occasional lifting of up to thirty pounds.
Benefits:
Heartspring offers a generous benefits package including three weeks of paid vacation, sick leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, short term disability insurance and retirement plans. Heartspring also offers opportunities to grow within and advance your careers through on-the-job training, internal promotion preferences, and the Heartspring scholarship program to help you go back to school.
Heartspring is a drug-free campus. Heartspring is an EEO employer.