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Support Staff Floater - Dietary, Housekeeping, & Maintenance: Full-Time

Valley Hope Addiction Treatment & Recovery, Moundridge, KS, United States


Support Staff Floater - Dietary, Housekeeping, & Maintenance: Full-Time
Valley Hope of Moundridge invites a Support Staff Floater to join our dedicated and passionate team.

Education & Experience

Six (6) months previous housekeeping/dietary/maintenance experience

Valid and unrestricted driver’s license is required

Compensation

Starting Pay: $17+ /Hr.

Benefits

Medical coverage — Valley Hope pays up to 85% of premiums

Dental & vision plans at competitive rates

Up to 27 days of PTO (based on position and tenure)

8 paid holidays (including a personal day)

Paid parental leave

401(k) with employer match

Tuition assistance to grow your career

Student loan repayment support

Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer

HSA & FSA options to manage healthcare costs

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for added support

Job Summary

Ensures safe food handling protocol is maintained at all times within the kitchen and dining areas, including safe hand hygiene compliance, cross contamination prevention, and temperature checks, and ensures timely documentation as directed by supervisor, local regulatory body, or written instructions.

Prepares/supports preparation of daily meals according to weekly menus/recipes or supervisor instruction, and properly increases or decreases recipes as needed for fluctuations in census.

Prepares/supports preparation of daily meals and/or snacks according to Special Diet needs as ordered by nursing department.

Provides/serves food to patients/units/programs, visitors, and staff with a pleasant demeanor.

Stores food items according to established guidelines and/or state regulations/guidelines.

Performs dishwashing and sanitation for all items used in preparation and serving of meals.

Presents safety and hygiene instruction to any patients who are assigned to assist with dish or clean up duties to ensure safe kitchen environment and safe dish sanitization methods are followed.

Performs cleaning/sanitizing tasks as outlined on the shift/daily/weekly/monthly cleaning schedules, which may include sinks, counters, ovens, stovetops, grill, fryer, serving line, salad bar, and other equipment and appliances.

Follows safety guidelines when using appliances, utensils, and other commercial kitchen equipment.

Reports safety hazards to management.

Removes trash, boxes, or other materials such as used grease to appropriate containers in a timeframe that ensures staff safety and proper food handling protocol.

Adheres to Valley Hope’s philosophies, policies, and procedures as well as any other regulating bodies.

Participates in all assigned staff meetings, staff development, and training as required.

Interacts and communicates with others (patients, co-workers, management, clients, and vendors) in a professional and tactful manner, including treating them with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position.

Work Environment

Residential and/or outpatient treatment facility setting; requires walking throughout the facility and may require unloading of food/stock in temperature extremes.

Able to work non-typical hours, which could include early mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays; able to work overtime to the extent necessary.

Able to stand for lengthy periods and to walk including up or down steps or stairs as needed.

Able to push, pull, pull up, bend at the knees and waist, twist body at the waist, raise and hold arms overhead, kneel, squat, crawl, turn head-neck-shoulders as needed, grasp items with hands, for either extended periods of time or many times throughout the workday.

Able to reach, move, grasp, handle, control and maintain with one or both hands in order to operate standard kitchen prep and cooking utensils according to manufacturer instruction.

Able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.

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