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Dietary Aide (Dining Services II) - Rifle

State of Colorado

Garfield County, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Jul 2026

💰 $40,240/yr

About the role

Posting number: ILD 00099 7/6/2026

Department: Colorado Department of Human Services

Division: OAADS - Colorado State Veterans Home at Rifle

Job classification: Dining Services II

Posting type: Open

Categories: Food Services, Human Services

Summary

This position is open to current Colorado residents only.

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

This position is paid bi-weekly.

Office of Adult, Aging and Disability Services
CO State Veterans Community Living Center at Rifle

The Colorado State Veterans Community Living Center at Rifle is located on Colorado's western slope in the scenic Colorado River valley. Rifle offers a mild climate, with plenty of clean mountain air and beautiful blue skies. Amidst this setting, the State Veterans Community Living Center at Rifle provides 89 beds of skilled nursing care, including a 18-bed Special Care Unit for residents with Alzheimer's Disease or related conditions. Serving veterans, their spouse and eligible "Gold Star" parents, we are committed to caring for the whole person by addressing the personal and social needs of each resident, as well as their physical and medical requirements. All staff members of Rifle are committed to providing a life of qualify and dignity for every resident. At the Colorado State Veterans Community Living Center at Rifle, our staff is known for showing love and compassion to our residents. Giving residents a hug, holding their hand or sitting next to them on them on the arm of a chair are just a few of the ways we give care that comes from the heart.

http://www.colorado.gov/cdhs/veteranshomes/fitzsimons

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Examples of duties

Shift Information: Tuesday and Wednesday 11:00 am - 7:30 pm; Thursday and Friday 5:30 am - 2:00 pm

Please note: These working arrangements are subject to change.

This position assists and supports the cooks in providing and performing cooking services (meals and specialty requests) that meet the needs and requests of the residents in the nursing home. This position also assists in maintaining a safe and sanitary kitchen, dining rooms and storage areas.

Job Duties:

Serves meals, takes orders, cooks to order food, dishes up desserts and salads, puts out condiments, fruit and necessary food items.
Sets, clears, and sanitizes tables; washes dishes, silverware, pots and pans and puts them away; rolls silverware and sets up dining rooms.
Acts as a production assistant with regard to food handling as a cook, or cook helper preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner meals and other related functions to ensure timely and nutritious meals for residents and staff, to be done before, during and after all resident meals daily.
Fills dispensers and stocks refrigerators, cleans juice and coffee machines and fills with product, stocks resident refrigerator and pantry with food and supplies, takes supplement and beverages to nursing service for distribution.
Maintains store room by stocking, inventory, cleaning, organizing food and non-foods items to ensure sufficient food supplies and sanitary storage conditions, following State, Federal and VA regulations; ensure that residents have food, beverages and supplements as needed.
Cleans dining room, sweeps and mops floors, cleans steam table, throws away trash, cleans dish room and mops floor daily to ensure sanitation and infection control requirements are completed, wipes down tables and chairs; puts on clean tablecloths, complete cleaning duties as assigned to ensure sanitation and infection control requirements are met and completed to ensure a pleasant and comfortable dining experience for residents.
Attends all mandatory and non-mandatory in-services for department and facility.
Attends all mandatory training and refresher courses