Dietary Assistant Jobs

$2,500 Bonus Incentive Available for this FULL Time position!

Do you enjoy interacting with Seniors, but are not looking to be a direct caregiver? As a Dietary Assistant -Food Service team member, you can interact with our residents while impacting their lives with social interactions during their dining experience. All of this while providing nutritous meals in a safe and sanitary manner.

We have a newly vacant Full Time Food Service Position open at our Cadillac Senior Living Community.

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This FULLL TIME Role pays $15.00/hour

As a full time Samaritas employee, some of the benefits you will receive are

• Competitive Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits, effective the first of the month following 30 days of employment
• Company paid Basic Life Insurance ($10,000 minimum for each full time and part time employee)
• Company paid Short Term Disability accrual (Full time employees)
• Great Personal Time Off (PTO) accruals
• Plus many more benefits
• Retirement Plan (403b) - Company matches on first 1.5% of gross income at 133%

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Some of the benefits you may receive are

Full Time/Part Time

• Plus, many more benefits
• Company paid Basic Life Insurance ($10,000 minimum for each full time and part time employee)
• Competitive Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits, effective the first of the month following 30 days of employment
• Retirement Plan (403b) - Company matches on first 1.5% of gross income at 133%
• Company paid Short Term Disability accrual (Full time employees)
• Awesome Employee Discounts
• Great Personal Time Off (PTO) accruals

Contingent

• Retirement Plan (403b) – Contributions
• Awesome Employee Discounts

Job Summary

Provides assistance to the cook in the preparation and delivery of meals and supplements in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Deliver food and supplements to residents.
• Remove food trays from carts in dining rooms and transport to dishwashing area.
• Wash and put away service ware and dish ware.
• Clean kitchen, dining room and equipment as required.
• Prepare food trays for residents; check trays on line, maintaining sanitation requirements and tray accuracy.
• Store food and supplements in a safe and sanitary manner in accordance with policy and procedures.

Job Qualifications

Education, Training, and Licensure/Certification

• ServSafe certification preferred.
• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

Experience

• Experience in a long term care facility preferred.
• Experience in food preparation preferred.

Knowledge Skills And Abilities

• Ability and willingness to work cooperatively with co-workers, residents and families of residents, including those from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to read, speak and write English; ability to write legibly and construct sentences containing subject, verb, and object.
• Ability to display compassion and sensitivity with vulnerable adults who may become angry, hostile or combative.
• Ability to maintain a helping role when interfacing with persons served; intervenes when appropriate.
• Knowledge of food prep, sanitation and tray accuracy.
• Ability to carry out simple one-or two-step instructions.
• Ability to comprehend food labels and instructions.

Additional Work Requirements

• Weekends required.

Physical And Mental Requirements

• Stands routinely and moves about.
• Near visual acuity.
• Subject to extremes in temperature, exposure to odors, food ingredients, chemicals/cleaning agents.
• Hand-eye coordination.
• Twists, bends and stoops.
• Finger and hand dexterity.
• Potential exposure to infectious waste, and disease conditions.
• May push or pull food carts.
• Lifts and transfers bulky hot and cold weights up to 40 pounds.