Job Details

This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the VA Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Major duties include but not limited to:
* Sets up and breaks down assigned station with the correct supplies and food items;
* Portions food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and specified dishware
* Selects and places correct items on patient trays
* Decides what food items to serve for the most common diets
* Identifies obvious discrepancies between the prescribed diets and the food items designated by the menu
* Sets up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary;
* Delivers meal trays to the patients' bedsides; reporting the patients' comments and complaints to the supervisor or dietitian;
* Provides assistance to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes;
* Prepares fresh fruit/cold salads/dressings/sandwich fillings and cold sandwiches and simple cold desserts;
* Reads and interprets regular or modified menus, individual diet cards, tray tickets or patient selections
* Performs heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas;
* Performing other duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Full-time-Variable Work Schedule; Subject to change based on the needs of the facility.
Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker/99920-S
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Physical Requirements: Work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often cause uncomfortably high temperatures and humidity. Requires light to moderate physical effort. May be required to perform heavy work, such as scouring and scrubbing large size cooking utensils and pushing heavy carts and trucks in unloading, storing, and delivering supplies. Will be subject to continuous standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending. May be required to work on ladders and use powered cleaning equipment. Frequently lifts or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted and occasionally lifts or moves objects weighing more than 40 pounds with the assistance of others.