EPHRATA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTJob Summary Substitute Food Service Aide Ephrata Area School District, 803 Oak Boulevard, Ephrata, PA, has a continuous need for substitute Food Service Aides throughout the school year. Substitutes work part-time schedules with hours that vary depending on need. Typical work hours will be scheduled between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm on days that school is in session.
Position Title: Cashiers, Dishwashers, Food Preparers, Servers, Monitors
Department: Food Services
Reports To: Kitchen Manager & Director of Food Services
Position Purpose:
To help in the preparation and serving of breakfast and lunch to the student body and staff in a sanitary, efficient and friendly manner. Position includes cashier, dishwashing, monitoring and cleaning duties.
Essential Functions:
(May Include, but not limited to):Assist in the preparation and serving of food items for the food service program.
Read and accurately follow recipes, assuring foods meet the NSLP traditional lunch requirements.
Ensure required quantities of breakfast and lunch are prepared with great attention to quality and eye appeal.
Maintain kitchen and serving areas in clean, safe and sanitary condition, including following and accounting for all HACCP guidelines.
Correctly identify NSLP traditional breakfast & lunch meals and offer vs. serve in order to accurately meet state & federal reimbursement requirements.
Collect money for meals and a la carte sales and account for meals served.
Ability to learn computer accounting/POS system.
Clean dishes, pots, pans and equipment as needed.
Maintain high standards of cleanliness and orderliness of the assigned operational area and perform other cleaning duties as assigned.
Responsible to Building Principal and Kitchen Manager for maintaining an orderly cafeteria with respect to noise level, students arriving, dismissing students after proper lunch time length, students needing assistance and behavioral issues.
Cultivate and model a respectful and team-oriented working and learning environment.
Any other duties assigned to ensure we are successful in fulfilling our main purpose of providing breakfast and lunch to our students, may include manager duties when manager is absent.
Knowledge & Skill Requirement:
Education: High school diploma or its equivalent
Certification: Serve-safe certification preferred, but not required
Experience:
Possess some knowledge of cooking materials and methods, of kitchen equipment and how it operates and of sanitation and chemical use
Language Skills:- Ability to effectively work harmoniously with others and communicate with students, parents and school personnel from diverse cultures or backgrounds
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to add/subtract and make correct change with cash sales and correctly tally cash drawers
- Reasoning Skills: Ability to think on your feet and make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment
Other Skills & Abilities:
Demonstrate good interpersonal skills including neat and clean appearance.
Work Place Expectations:
- Must have flexibility to work hours needed by individual buildings pending breakfast & lunch start/dismissal times and irregular hours depending upon needs of the food service department.
- Have regular and punctual attendance.
- Follow all District and Food Service policies, work procedures and reasonable requests by proper authority.
- Maintain the integrity of confidential information relating to students and families.
- Essential Physical Requirement:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk and reach with hands and arms, often repetitively. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision. Employee must be able to distinguish the difference between bells, buzzers, beeps, etc.
Terms of Employment: As Per Contract
