Culinary Services Assistant

Overview

• Positive Impact and Relationship Building: As a Culinary Services Assistant at La Crosse County's Long-Term Campuses, you will enhance residents' quality of life by providing nutritious meals while building meaningful relationships within a supportive team environment.
• Flexible Part-Time Schedule: This position offers part-time flexibility, allowing you to balance work with other commitments while contributing to a collaborative dietary team focused on individual resident needs.

• Up to $19/hr and $21/hr on weekends with differential.

Essential Job Functions

Assists in the preparation of foods.

Serves food in a prescribed manner and amounts for dining areas.

Scrapes, washes and racks dishes either by mechanical dishwasher or manually.

Cleans dining area and dining room as needed.

Cleans kitchen and related areas.

Assists in work storage areas such as unpacking, storing supplies, etc.

Completes trainings and attends mandatory in-service required by the facility.

Works safely and follows safety practices and standards of the facility; responsible for reporting or correcting any existing or potential safety or accident hazard.

Maintains residents' rights and confidentiality of resident information; reports all suspected cases of resident abuse to the Administrator.

In this public service position, employee is required to be courteous, cooperative and respectful at all times, with the public and clients. Also establishes and maintains a courteous, cooperative and respectful working relationship with other employees, supervisors and public officials.

Employee is expected to report to work when scheduled, with minimum use of sick leave, to build up sick leave balance for income protection for unexpected illness.

Supports all aspects of person centered care. Respects and acknowledges individuality and uniqueness of residents.

Attends in-service education as provided or mandated.

Physical demands: Stands for long periods of time. Walks to and from kitchen areas. 50% of time is spent pushing, lifting, and pulling. May lift and move vegetables (50 lbs.), cases of #10 cans of food (45-48 lbs.), fruit (20 lbs.), and other items; moves food from shelving area to cart or to can opening area; lifts dish racks; lifts filled food steam table pans weighing up to 20 lbs. Works in dish room areas, which are often hot and humid; works in kitchen, which may be hot; works with hot foods and cooking utensils; works in freezer with frozen food; subject to dramatic and extreme temperature changes. Reads instructions, recipes, resident diet cards, etc.

RELATED JOB FUNCTIONS

• May be required to: Plan and coordinate the work of others; as necessary; answer phone and take message and fill out necessary paperwork; and check orders and sign invoices as needed.
• This job description is not intended to encompass every job duty or responsibility, but is only illustrative. This position is required to perform other duties as may be assigned or required.

Tasks assigned to this position involve potential and/or direct exposure to blood or body fluids.
Risk Exposure Categories:
1=Tasks may involve exposure to blood/body fluids.
2=Tasks do not involve contact with blood/body fluids but could result in performing Category 1 task.
3=Tasks do not involve any risk of exposure to blood/body fluid.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ability to read menu modifications, resident diet cards and serve food in proper consistency.
Ability to perform routine food preparation, and comprehend the necessity of maintaining sanitary cooking and food handling procedures.
Ability to prepare food for special menus.
Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
Ability to accept direction and correction.
Ability to maintain cleanliness and neatness in appearance and work habits.
Ability to work efficiently and avoid waste of time and supplies.
Ability to communicate with staff regarding completion of tasks with emphasis on safety.
Ability to plan work in order to have food prepared on schedule.
Ability to use independent judgment in carrying out assigned duties.

Training, Experience and Other Requirements

Benefits for this position depend on the number of hours worked.

• If the position is full-time, then benefits would be available.
• If the position is part-time, then limited benefits would be available (this would not include insurances unless 30 hours per week or more).
• If the hours are less-than-half-time, then there are no benefits available.