This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System within VISN 1. This Full-time position is 40 hours a week and located at the West Haven VA Medical Facility.
The incumbent has a high level of skills and abilities for providing patient centered care and exceptional customer service. Daily interaction with Veterans to obtain menu selections.Major duties and responsibilities include (but are not limited to: Set up cafeteria lines, steam tables, dining room tables, and side service stands with hot and cold food items. Serves food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers'/patients' plates.
Breaks down and clean assigned area when the meal is finished and return food to the kitchen. Set up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary. Returns soiled trays and dishes to the dish room after meals. Delivers meal trays to the patients' bedsides. Brews coffee according to the number of servings required.
Assembles and toss fresh fruit or green salads in quantity using prepared dressings and portions into standard serving sizes. Apportion other food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and containers. Makes cold sandwiches using prepared ingredients and pack box lunches. Works in one or more functional areas of the kitchen such as food preparation, dish and pot washing, dry and refrigerated storage and receiving, and the serving line.
Sorts, wash, peel and cut fresh fruits and vegetables. Operates and break down equipment. Performs heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas Separates food waste and trash from dishes, glasses and silverware in the dish washing area. Removes inspection doors, strainer pans, screens and spray arms for preventive maintenance of the dish machine. Unloads delivery trucks. Stores sanitized dishes, glasses and silverware.
Scrapes, soak, scour, and scrub the heavier cooking utensils. Moves heavy garbage cans when collecting and transferring trash from the work area to the disposal area. Performing other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 6:30am-3:00pm/ Rotating weekends and holidays Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker/PD99920S Physical Requirements: Food Service Workers perform work requiring light to moderate physical effort.
They 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. They are subject to continuous standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending. They frequently lift or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 40 pounds with the assistance of others.
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.
Food service workers are regularly exposed to hot liquids, sharp cutting blades, hot working surfaces, and extreme temperature changes when entering walk-in refrigeration or freezing units. NOTIFICATIONS: This position is in the competitive service. Veterans' Preference: Since the Direct-Hire Recruitment Authority is being used, traditional Veterans' Preference rules do not apply. Qualified veterans will, however, be given full consideration for this position.
This position is covered by locality-based comparability pay. Current employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
Nyeedra.Shells@va.gov · 762-343-8566
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $22.21 – $25.93/hr.
Applications close on 2026-11-16.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
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