Dining Services II - Fitzsimmons Veterans Community Living Center - Aurora

Department Information

This position is open to current Colorado residents only.

Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple.

Office of Adult, Aging, and Disability Services

Colorado Veterans Community Living Center at Fitzsimons

Colorado Veterans Community Living Center (VCLC) at Fitzsimons is a beautiful 180-bed, skilled nursing facility serving Colorado's veterans. We strive to honor and respect those living in our community through companionship and person-centered care while providing a comfortable and safe place to live. At Fitzsimons, we provide long-term care and short-term rehab and have a secured memory care neighborhood. We are conveniently located on the medical campus with UC Hospital and the Aurora VA Medical Center. Fitzsimons celebrates a low 18% staff turnover rate and substantial longevity among staff.

Visit us online at: www.colorado.gov/cdhs/veteranshomes/fitzsimons

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Description of Job

The work unit exists to provide quality care to residents and meet or exceed standards prescribed by the Veterans Administration, and the Colorado Department of Public Health. This work unit exists to provide full dining services for 180 nursing home residents, catering, and staff meals. Responsible for three balanced, nutritious meals daily, meeting all dietary needs of all residents as per physician orders, meals are served on time, at the correct temperature, accurately maintaining diet cards, within state and federal regulations. Maintains a sanitary and safe work unit.

This position functions independently in performing a full range of responsibilities that include but are not limited to serving meals in the main and satellite kitchens, serving residents, cleaning, sanitation, and related tasks. This includes following generally accepted and facility food service standards. This position performs a variety of heavy manual labor food service duties, including, but not limited to cleaning and sanitizing the kitchen, the kitchen equipment, utensils, dishes, pots, and pans. The position requires heavy lifting, manual labor, and long periods of standing and walking (i.e. delivering the food hot boxes to the satellite kitchens). This position helps to stock and maintain par levels in the storeroom, coolers, and freezers and supervises the above-mentioned tasks and responsibilities in the absence of the Food Services Director.

Primary Duties include:

Sanitation:

• Communicate immediately and directly with the Food Service Director about any department concerns.

• Cleans dishes, pots, pans, tables and clears right of way before, during, and after meal service.

• Main kitchen sanitation

• Maintains all kitchen equipment according to set guidelines.

• Follows kitchen and satellite daily and weekly cleaning checklist.

• Cleans and sanitizes all kitchen food service equipment.

• Cleans kitchen, equipment, and floors at the end of each shift.

• Washes and sanitizes pots and pans.

• Washes down walls, racks, and floors in walk-in refrigerators.

• Collects and disposes of trash.

• Maintains dumpster trash area.

• Cleans dining room tables and sanitizes, cleans chairs, washes dishes and silverware, and puts them away.

Food Handling and Services:

• Prepares all aspects of meals to food safety standards, visual appeal, and palatability for residents.

• Follows standardized recipes.

• Prepares enough of all menu items for residents.

• Prepares enough therapeutic diets in the appropriate texture and temperature.

• Follow the therapeutic worksheets for correct portion sizes and texture to include purées salad, desserts, and fruits to appropriate texture.

• Serves regular and modified diets on satellite units to residents using proper procedures and resident tray cards.

• Fills and delivers special orders to meet resident requests for alternative menu choices.

• Prepares Salads.

• Plates and serves deserts.

• Communicates resident feedback regarding likes and dislikes to supervisor.

• Delivers food and snacks to facility unit storage areas and refrigerators.

Monitoring:

• Monitors all food temperatures and records on proper form while food is removed from the oven cooling unit and before the items leave the main kitchens.

• Delivers foods as required to proper units.

• Notifies on-duty supervisor any time foods are not at a proper serving temperature.

• Provides solutions to aids for discrepancies in food temps.

• Makes sure that every item is to the appropriate temperature to be served.

• Monitors temperatures of the main kitchen, satellites, and other appropriate areas where food is served and maintains daily records.

• Notifies on-duty supervisor any time refrigerators are not within acceptable parameters.

• Check all leftover foods in refrigerators for expiration dates.

• Check all storage areas for labels and dates.

• Discards all outdated food and snacks as required by policies and procedures.

Education:

• Attend scheduled in-services, trainings, and meetings.

• Assists in training new employees on the functions of the job.

• Provide feedback to the Food Service Manager on the proficiency of new employees.

Other duties as required for business needs

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Shiftwork: Day, Evening, Varying, Weekends, rotating, Holidays

Please note: Shifts will vary based on the needs of the department.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience:

One year experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position (ie. Hospital or school cafeteria, institutional kitchen/cafeteria, or the food service industry)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Possession of Food Certification(s)

• Cooking Experience

• Experience working in a long-term care environment

• Ability to work effectively as a team member

• Detail-Oriented

Conditions of Employment:

• Full Background: CBI name check and fingerprint check, ICON Colorado court database, Medicare fraud database, Reference Checks, Professional License verification (licensure requirements), Drug Screen, CAPS (direct contact with adults - Mental Health Institutes, Regional Centers, Veterans Community Living Centers)

• Must pass a TB test and other vaccinations required by the facility.

• This position is considered "essential services" and you will be required to report without delay or interruption to provide essential or emergency services to ensure health, safety, and welfare.

• Other: Must be able to be on feet for up to 8 hours continuously

• This position has shift work: Day, Evening, Varying, Weekends, rotating, Holidays

• Use, Handling, or Exposure to hazardous materials: Must be able to work around and with cleaning chemicals such as bleach, dishwasher detergent, oven cleaner, etc.

• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application and provide an explanation as to why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination, or resignation in lieu of termination will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

Appeal Rights:

If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.

An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department's action.

For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.

Supplemental Information

How to Apply

The Assessment Process

For additional recruiting questions, please contact annette.torrez@state.co.us

About Us:

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan www.copera.org plus 401(k) and 457 plans

• Medical and dental health plans

• Employer supplemented Health Savings Account

• Paid life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave

• BenefitHub state employee discount program

• Employee Wellness program MotivateMe

• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more

• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

• Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more

information, go to https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/student-loan-forgiveness-programs.

Our Values:

We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans.

Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.

We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.

Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.

We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.

Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

ADAA Accommodations: CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at cdhs_ada@state.co.us or call 1-800-929-0791.

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