This position is located within the Nutrition and Food Services at the VA Medical Center in Salem, VA. The Food Service Worker performs tasks with several steps or a sequence of tasks that requires attention to work operations.

Duties

NOTE: This is a part-time position (20 hours/week). Benefits and time-off accrual will be prorated and based on your part-time work schedule. The major duties include but are not limited to: Set up assigned station with the correct supplies and food items; Serve food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers'/patients'/residents' plates; Break down and clean the station when assigned; Set up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary; Return soiled trays and dishes to the dish room; Deliver meal trays to the patients' bedsides and report the patients' comments and complaints to the supervisor or dietitian; Prepare beverages according to the number of servings required; Prepare fresh fruit/cold salads/dressings/sandwich filling and cold sandwiches and simple cold desserts in specified quantities; Sort, wash, peel, and cut cold foods using knives or other equipment; Provide assistance to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure, and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes; Operate, break down, and clean all equipment assigned to food service and related areas; Portion food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and specified dishware; Prepare boxed/to-go meals; Select and place correct items on patient trays; Read and interpret a regular or modified menu, individual diet cards, tray tickets, or patient selections; Identify obvious discrepancies between the prescribed diets and the food items designated by the menu; Decide what food items to serve for the most common diets; Perform heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas; Separate food waste, trash/recyclables from dishes, glasses, and silverware; Unload food/tray delivery carts; Store sanitized dishes, glasses, and silverware; Scrape, soak, scour, and scrub cookware and utensils; Move garbage cans when collecting and transferring trash from the work area to the disposal area; Perform other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Part-Time, 20 hours per week, tour will vary depending on the service needs. Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved

Requirements

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: 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. May be required to work on ladders and use powered cleaning equipment. 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. 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 Salem VA Medical Center 1970 Roanoke Boulevard Salem, VA 24153 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]