This position is located in the Nutrition and Food Services section of the Little Rock VA Medical Center. The position performs duties that require proficiency in special procedures. They require a broad knowledge of service operations, such as food and beverage preparation, modified diets, computer proficiency, dishwashing, dry and refrigerated storage, and safety and sanitation. The employee may be required to work in the Little Rock or North Little Rock facility.

Duties

Major duties and responsibilities include: Setting up assigned station on the tray line with the correct supplies and food items. Serving food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers'/patients'/residents' plates. Breaking down and cleaning the station when assigned. Setting up dining room tables for service, placing food and beverages on tables, and replenishing items as necessary. Delivering meal trays to the patients' bedsides and report the patients' comments and complaints to the supervisor or dietitian. Preparing fresh fruit/cold salads/dressings/sandwich fillings and cold sandwiches and simple cold desserts in specified quantities. Providing assistance to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes. Operating and breaking down and cleaning all equipment assigned to food service and related areas. Making final check of diet trays assembled by lower grade workers for completeness, correct food temperatures. Identifying obvious discrepancies between the prescribed diets and the food items designated by the menu. Preparing individual and bulk nourishments and supplemental foods and beverages for patients. Following directions in assembling, measuring, weighing, or mixing ingredients for basic formulas and supplemental feedings following standardized recipes and using sanitary techniques. Determining the quantities of ingredients needed to prepare required yield. Taking nourishment inventories, stocking using first in-first out procedures, replacing expired items. Sterilizing equipment and sanitizing work areas. Working in one or more functional areas of the kitchen such as food preparation, dish and pot washing, dry and refrigerated storage and receiving, and the serving line. Providing assistance to cooks in the food preparation area including assembling, labeling and arranging completed recipe items in preparation for use by cooks. Using a computer terminal to record and retrieve recipe, menu and inventory data and to produce reports. Performing other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Sunday, 7:00am-3:30pm and 11:30am-8:00pm, with 2 rotating days off Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not authorized.

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Wage Grade 4 Food Service Workers perform work requiring light to moderate physical effort. They 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. They are subject to continuous standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending. They frequently lift or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 40 pounds with the assistance of others. The work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often cause uncomfortably high temperatures and humidity. The work area is well-lighted but usually noisy from food service activities, and there is danger of slipping on floors where food or beverages have been dropped. Food service workers are regularly exposed to hot liquids, sharp cutting blades, hot working surfaces, and extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigeration or freezing units. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Dexterity and SafetyInterpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)MaterialsTechnical PracticesUse and Maintain Tools and EquipmentWithout more than normal supervisionWork Practices IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address John L McClellan Memorial Veterans' Hospital 4300 West Seventh Street Little Rock, AR 72205 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]