Are you someone who takes pride in preparing meals, keeping work areas clean, and helping others every day? As a Food Service Worker 1 with the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, you will support veterans and residents by helping provide quality food service. Your work helps create a welcoming dining experience while maintaining important health and safety standards. Bring your dedication and energy to a position where your daily efforts make a meaningful difference.
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In this role, you will help prepare meals, serve food, maintain clean dining and kitchen areas, and support daily food service operations for residents. You will also assist with recordkeeping, special events, and required safety and sanitation practices. As a Food Service Worker 1, you will perform the following duties:
- Food Preparation: Prepare and plate food items, beverages, and other meal components using proper portions
- Meal Service: Assemble trays, follow special diet instructions, and deliver meals to residents as assigned
- Cart Operations: Load, transport, and unload food carts, snacks, nourishments, and beverages throughout the facility
- Sanitation Tasks: Clean dishes, equipment, dining areas, kitchens, floors, and food preparation spaces to maintain sanitary conditions
- Record Keeping: Document inventory usage, temperatures, meal counts, and other required food service information
- Safety Compliance: Follow safety procedures, use required protective equipment, attend training, and report hazards or incidents promptly
Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.
Work Schedule and Additional Information:
- Full-time employment, 8.0 hours per day, 40 hours per week
- Work hours are 2nd shift (10:30 AM to 7:00 PM), with every Tuesday and Wednesday off and a 30-minute lunch.
- Telework: You will not have the option to telework in this position.
- Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
- You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.
Additional Requirement:
- You must be able to perform essential job functions.
Preferred Qualifications (not required):
- Food service experience in an assisted living facility, nursing home, hospital, restaurant, or other food service operation
- Work experience interacting with patients, residents, or customers while serving food or cleaning inpatient or resident rooms, or dining areas
- Work experience with food safety and sanitation in a dietary department
- Experience in the following tasks:
- Cleaning, washing, peeling, slicing, and dicing food items
- Using kitchen equipment such as a vertical cutter mixer, food processor, tabletop chopper, or garbage disposal
- Chopping, dicing, and slicing meats, poultry, fish, and cheeses
- Heating simple foods such as eggs, sandwiches, and hamburgers
- Preparing sandwiches, assembling salads, and serving portions, including desserts
- Plating and serving meals from a hot food cart
- Cleaning and sanitizing equipment, utensils, dishes, pots, pans, work surfaces, and other kitchen items
- Transporting and assisting with loading and unloading food delivery trucks from kitchen and dining areas
- Transporting food and supplies to and from freezers, refrigerators, and storerooms
- Taking selective menu orders, taking food orders, performing waitressing tasks, and providing dining room service
- Setting up food carts and dining room serving areas
- Reading meal and tray tickets or tags
- Assembling trays and working on a tray line
- Operating commercial kitchen equipment
Legal Requirements:
- A conditional offer of employment will require a medical examination.
- This position falls under the provisions of the Older Adult Protective Services Act.
- Under the Act, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports, including but not limited to, PA State Police and FBI clearance.
How to Apply:
- Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
- Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
- Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.
- All application materials and interview responses must reflect the applicant’s own experience, qualifications, and work. Applicants may use generative AI tools for preparation purposes only. Use of AI to misrepresent or falsify information, or to assist during interviews, is not permitted. Review the Guidance for Generative AI Tools & Job Seekers for additional information.
Veterans:
- Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to www.pa.gov/agencies/employment/how-to-apply.html and click on Veterans.
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS):
- 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).
If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.
The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.