Job Details

This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the VA Medical Center in Hampton, Virginia.
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE OPEN CONTIUNALLY UNTIL 09/30/26. Resumes will be referred to hiring managers as a vacancy occurs. You will receive an email notification when your resume has been referred for a vacancy.
Major duties and responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
* Sets up and breaks down assigned station with the correct supplies and food items;
* Portions food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and specified dishware
* Selects and places correct items on patient trays
* Decides what food items to serve for the most common diets
* Identifies obvious discrepancies between the prescribed diets and the food items
* designated by the menu
* Sets up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary;
* Delivers meal trays to the patients' bedsides; reporting the patients' comments and complaints to the supervisor or dietitian;
* Provides assistance to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes;
* Prepares fresh fruit/cold salads/dressings/sandwich fillings and cold sandwiches and simple cold desserts;
* Reads and interprets regular or modified menus, individual diet cards, tray tickets or patient selections
* Performs heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas;
* Performing other duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Full Time (Tour will be determined by supervisor based on organizational needs) Shifts are variable / 7 days a week to include holidays and weekends. Schedule may change based on the needs of the services. Tours may include the following: 5:30am-2:00pm, 7:00am-3:30pm, 8:00am-4:30pm, 9:00am-6:30pm, 11am-7:30pm, 11:30am-8:00pm with rotating weekends and holidays.
Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker/99920-S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Physical Requirements: Incumbent is subject to continuous standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending. Frequently lifts or moves objects weighing up to 40 pounds. Incumbent may be required to perform heavy work, such as scouring and scrubbing large-size cooking utensils and pushing heavy carts and trucks in unloading, storing, and delivering supplies. May also be required to work on ladders and use powered cleaning equipment. Incumbent is required to push AMDS food cart which weighs approximately 500 pounds, and will require 12-pounds of force to initiate movement and also 7-pounds of force to keep the food cart rolling. The work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often cause uncomfortably high temperatures and humidity. The work area is well lighted but usually noisy from food service activities, and there is danger of slipping on floors where food or beverages have been dropped. Incumbent is regularly exposed to hot liquids, sharp cutting blades, hot working surfaces, and extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigeration or freezing units.