About this role
General Description :
Responsible for table service to residents. Perform duties in compliance with established company policies and procedures, and performs in a professional manner. Duties include the setting up and clearing of the dining room.
Essential Job Functions :
- Demonstrates ability to take food order
- Demonstrates ability to deliver food ordered by residents.
- Demonstrates positive, courteous and considerate manner to all guests.
- Responsible for maintaining the dining room in a sanitary and orderly manner.
- Responsible for any assigned cleaning tasks and/or side jobs.
- Attends scheduled meetings and inservices.
- Adheres to unit standards of dress.
- Performs other duties as required in the Culinary Department.
Key Characteristics :
- Demonstrates neatness, accuracy and dependability.
- Contributes, develops and carries out new ideas.
- Demonstrates an ability to work with others.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to work in cost and time efficient manner.
- Teaches skills and knowledge to new staff.
- Wears appropriate clothing/uniform. Appearance is neat and well kept.
- Relates well with residents; is friendly and pleasant.
- Demonstrates good safety habits—uses equipment appropriately.
- Attendance/punctuality—comes to work when scheduled and on time.
- Attends required in-services.
Equipment to be used :
Dishwasher tray carts Coffee Maker Soda/ Juice Dispenser
Key Accountabilities (with or without reasonable accommodation) :
- Table etiquette – tables are set correctly; Residents are being served properly in polite, responsive manner.
- Ticket accuracy – food orders from residents are accurately recorded and correct food delivered.
- Dining room cleanliness is maintained, including tables, floors, chairs, and food services tables and cabinets.
- Sanitation – practices sanitary procedures in food handling, serving, cleaning of kitchen and dining room areas and storage.
- Dishroom responsibility – help wash, put away clean dishes, monitor cleanliness of dishes, glassware and flatware.
Qualifications
Work Area and Working Conditions :
- Well lighted, well ventilated kitchen, dining rooms, and dish room.
- Subject to frequent interruptions.
- Frequently exposed to wet and humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes, or airborne particles, extreme cold and extreme heat.
Entry Level Qualifications :
- Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence and memos.
- Ability to positively present information in public both one-on-one and small group situations to residents, guests and employees.
- Ability to perform simple math
- Ability to perform those operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Physical Requirements :
- Must be of good physical and mental health.
- While performing the duties of the job, the employee must be able to frequently sit, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, stand, walk, use hands, talk, pull, push, feel, and smell.
- While performing the duties of the job, the employee must be able to regularly lift and move 30 lbs. and up to 50lbs. occasionally.
- Specific vision abilities required, including close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.