Job Description

Food Service Worker

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Requisition ID: 36721

Company

Located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples, Vancouver has a dedication to turning into a City of Reconciliation. Vancouver persistently ranks as one of the world’s most habitable cities and is working toward being the greenest metropolis in the world. Named amongst Canada’s Top one hundred Employers, BC’s Top Employers, and Canada’s Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver seeks colleagues who can assist structure and embody our core commitments to sustainability, decolonization, fairness and exquisite great of lifestyles for all residents.

Consider becoming a member of our dedicated group of group of workers and being phase of an innovative, inclusive and beneficial workplace.

Main Purpose and Function

Carnegie Community Centre serves as an vital aid to Vancouver’s various Downtown Eastside community. Patrons take part in the educational, recreational, cultural and social programming, revel in the scrumptious low price meals provided at the cafetaria, or certainly revel in the Centre as the dwelling room of the Downtown Eastside.

The Food Service Worker function is a bodily traumatic dishwashing role requiring guide labour in a speedy paced kitchen environment. The Food Service Worker performs a range of cleansing and kitchen duties in a business kitchen. The Food Service Worker organizes, cleans and sanitizes the work area, busses and varieties meals and waste into excellent recycling bins, washes and places away the pans, pots, dishes, and different gear used in the kitchen, and executes a variety of duties to aid the different personnel accountable for serving and making ready meals and liquids which includes helping in receiving and stocking supplies. The Food Service Worker continues and operates business dishwashing gear and reviews any restore requirements. This role additionally oversees the work of volunteers underneath the practise and aid of the Kitchen Coordinator and Volunteer Program staff.

Specific Duties or Responsibilities
Performs a range of cleansing and kitchen duties consisting of washing, sanitizing and placing away dishes, utensils, pots, pans, and different kitchen equipment
Ensures that the work vicinity is clean, equipped and free from hazards
Ensures that all tools in the dish pit is in clean, protected working situation and reviews any want for restore to the Food Services Coordinator
Assists different kitchen body of workers with receiving substances and stocking
Ensures that soiled dishes are introduced to the dish pit, and that meals waste and rubbish is sorted into suitable recycling bins
Ensures that dishwashing practices (e.g. private hygiene) are compliant with meals protected requirements
Establishes and keeps fine relationships and terrific expert boundaries with staff, volunteers, and neighborhood members
Works tactfully and compassionately with volunteers who may additionally have drug/alcohol addictions and/or be remoted via poverty, homelessness, intellectual illness, or different elements of social exclusion
Supervises and affords guidance, support, course and teaching to volunteers as wanted in the kitchen and cafeteria
Deals tactfully with tough problems and handles complaints from volunteers and purchasers regarding the meals offerings in the Centre, or directs complaints to the Food Services Coordinator
Maintains a safe, healthy, and high quality surroundings for staff, volunteers, patrons, and neighborhood individuals to get right of entry to meals services

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Completion of tenth faculty grade, ideally supplemented with Food Safe education and some journey in dealing with socially and economically deprived populations, or an equivalent aggregate of education and experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Working information of the methods, elements and gear used to smooth and sanitize dishes, pots, pans, utensils, gear and working areas,
Some understanding of fitness risks in meals guidance and carrier and of vital precautionary measures
Ability to function present day dishwashing equipment
Ability to arrange work location effectively and to set up and preserve an nice work schedule
Ability to do bodily disturbing work in a quickly paced, hot, humid surroundings for lengthy durations of time
Ability to work in a standing function for a lengthy duration of time
Ability to use pc to test and reply to emails
Ability to recognize and observe regulations, insurance policies and tactics associated to meals offerings and Centre operations

A Police Record Check is a requirement of this position. A clearance requires the absence of any crook prices or convictions associated to this position.

The City of Vancouver has a COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Policy. All exterior candidates applying to the City of Vancouver are required to be wholly vaccinated as a situation of appoint and challenge to this coverage as a situation of ongoing employment. Candidates may also solely be exempted from this requirement if they request and are accepted for an lodging based totally on a motive associated to a Human Rights Code floor (such as disability). Such a request need to be made during, now not after, the recruitment process.

Business Unit/Department: Arts, Culture and Community Services (1200)

Affiliation: CUPE 15 Non Pks

Employment Type: Auxiliary/Casual

Position Start Date: August 2022

Salary Information: Pay Grade GR-009: $21.27 to $24.88 per hour

Application Close: August 12, 2022

At the City of Vancouver, we are dedicated to recruiting a various body of workers that represents the neighborhood we so proudly serve. Indigenous applicants, humans of colour, all genders, 2SLGBTQ+ and people with disabilities are motivated to apply. Accommodations will be furnished upon request all through the choice process. Learn greater about our dedication to range and inclusion.

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