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Food Service Worker

Veterans Health Administration
Cincinnati, OH Part Time
POSTED ON 11/22/2024 CLOSED ON 2/2/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Food Service Worker position at Veterans Health Administration?

This position is for a part time food service worker located in the Nutrition and Food Service department at the Department of Veteran's Affairs in Cincinnati, OH with an opportunity to work at Fort Thomas, KY.
Please note that this open continuous announcement will be used to fill vacancies as needed.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.

SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements:
  • Dexterity and Safety
  • Follow Directions
  • Handle Weights and Loads
  • Reliability And Dependability
  • Special Aptitude - Food Service Work
  • Work Practices


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; religions; 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.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. 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.

Responsibilities:

The Cincinnati VA Medical Center (CVAMC) is a two-division campus located in Cincinnati, OH and Fort Thomas, KY serving 15 counties in Southwest OH, Northern Kentucky, and Southeast Indiana with 6 Community Based Outpatient Clinics located in Bellevue, KY; Florence, KY; Lawrenceburg, IN; Hamilton, OH; Clermont County, OH, and Georgetown, OH. The CVAMC also supports two off main campus locations in the Cincinnati area via an Eye Center and Mental Health Outreach Community Division.

Food Service Workers perform tasks with several steps or a sequence of tasks that requires attention to work operations. They follow set procedures in accomplishing repetitive assignments and follow an established sequence of work such as working in the dish room, passing trays, portioning cold foods and dipping hot foods.

Major Duties:

- Set up cafeteria lines, steam tables, dining room tables, and side service stands
with hot and cold food items
- Serve food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on
customers'/patients' plates
- Break down and clean assigned area when the meal is finished and return food to
the kitchen
- 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 after meals
- Deliver meal trays to the patients' bedsides
- Brew coffee according to the number of servings required
- Assemble and toss fresh fruit or green salads in quantity using prepared dressings
and portions into standard serving sizes
- Apportion other food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils
and containers
- Make cold sandwiches using prepared ingredients and pack box lunches
- Work 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
- Sort, wash, peel and cut fresh fruits and vegetables
- Operate and break down equipment
- Perform heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas
- Separate food waste and trash from dishes, glasses and silverware in the dish
washing area
- Remove inspection doors, strainer pans, screens and spray arms for preventive
maintenance of the dish machine
- Unload delivery trucks
- Store sanitized dishes, glasses and silverware
- Scrape, soak, scour, and scrub the heavier cooking utensils
- Move heavy garbage cans when collecting and transferring trash from the work
area to the disposal area
- Performs other related duties as assigned

Work Schedule: 6:00am - 10:00am; 6:00am-2:30pm; 11:00am-7:30pm; 3:30pm-7:30pm; 2 out of 3 weekends
Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker/PD99921-S

Physical Requirements: Wage Grade 2 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.

Work Conditions: 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.

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