Kitchen Helper (Part Time)

The Kitchen Helper provides excellent customer service and creates a pleasant dining experience for residents and guests, through taking meal orders, serving meals, dishwashing and providing assistance.
Schedule: PT
Salary Range: $17- $18 an hour
Responsibilities and Duties:
Take residents’ dining orders in a friendly and attentive disposition
Learn and retain residents’ names, special requests, and dietary restrictions
Ensure dining room is set up, all items needed for service are readily available (silverware, napkins, menus, salt/pepper shakers, etc.)
Assist with cleaning, dishwashing and sanitizing the dining room, menus, kitchen, serving stations, and other areas as directed
Ensure safe food handling
Assist with preparation of beverages, snacks, desserts, salads, and condiments for service
Assist residents with any special dining requests
Ensure all residents are accounted for during each meal, and completing documentation of their attendance
Assist with special events
Participates in and attends all in-service training as scheduled
Ensures compliance with all Federal, State, and local regulations, as well as community policies and procedures
Other duties as assigned
High school diploma preferred/GED accepted
Minimum of one (1) year experience in fine dining hospitality and/or full service senior living
Ability to handle multiple priorities
Competent in organizational, time management skills
Demonstrates good judgment, problem solving and decision making skills
Experience working with seniors
Physical Abilities:
While performing the duties of this job, the associate is often required to stand, walk, sit, use fine and gross motor skills, reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk, hear, and smell.
An individual in this position will be required to lift or carry weight in up to 50 lbs. Intermittent physical activity includes lifting and supporting residents. The associate must use proper body mechanics.

Employment type
Part-time

Work arrangement
No