Kitchen Assistant

Description

Assist Kitchen Manager with the following duties:

• →Maintain current knowledge of house and client activities. 
• →Modify and update facility menu to ensure client nutritional needs
• →Ensure facility kitchen is clean and sanitary
• →Act as the primary point of contact for Department of Health inquiries
• →Monitor stock levels, and place orders as needed
• →Train and develop new hires, both cooking and tech staff, for their respective roles as it relates to kitchen duties
• →Work with technician leadership to assign responsibilities across technician team
• →Remain responsible for company grocery card and receipts for those purchases
• →Ensure prepared meals meet any client special dietary requirements
• →Plan work tasks to coincide with programming requirements. 
• →Set priorities in preparing meals, placing food orders, cleaning facility and completion of other assignments. 
• →Available, in a friendly respectful dignified manner, to other staff for questions and other assistance. 
• →Comprehensive understanding of all MN Statutes related to providing services for the population NBHN serves
• →Handle multiple tasks simultaneously. 
• →Highly dependable and can be counted on to work independently, having the ability to work with little direction. 
• →Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of program philosophy and policies and procedures, 245G requirements, house operations, including client rights and confidentiality.  
• →Clearly understanding the program mission and how his/her work integrates with and advances the goals of the program. 
• →Use sound decision making skills, exhibiting good judgment and realistic understanding of issues. 
• →Be diplomatic and exhibiting sensitivity toward other staff and client’s feelings, needs, values, and opinions. 
• →Take ownership when solving problems. 
• →Have a willingness to seek assistance in making decisions. 
• →Continuously seek out to improve by suggesting solutions to operational struggles, through soliciting input from co-workers including director.
• →Respond constructively to feedback with an open mind. 
• →Interact, communicate, and collaborate with team members to support the mission of NBH.
• →Demonstrate behavior that shows he/she is striving to maintain a positive environment by role modeling appropriate language and using respectful social skills. 
• →Participate in staff meetings. 
• →Complete clerical assignments such as faxing, copying programming materials, stocking packets/forms, typing documents in Word and updating Excel spreadsheets. 
• →Support staff and director in making decisions. 
• →Ability to set boundaries with co - workers and clients. 
• →Launder agency linen and miscellaneous items as needed. 
• →Keep co-workers informed of all appropriate developments. 
• →Adhere to attendance and absence policies.   
• →Punctual in reporting for work and shift change reports. 
• →Able to work additional hours/off - shift as needed.

Previous experience in human services and/or healthcare environment as related to position responsibilities. Direct client care experience with chemical dependency treatment and rehabilitation.