Food Service Aide

Description

Who We Are

Innovative Integrated Health (IIH) is a mission-driven healthcare organization dedicated to helping frail, underserved, and multiethnic seniors live safely and independently at home with dignity. Through the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model of care, we deliver high-quality, personalized healthcare and supportive services that improve quality of life across the communities we serve.

At IIH, our work is rooted in compassion, cultural understanding, and deep respect for those in our care. Team members play a vital role in supporting seniors throughout Central and Southern California—delivering care that’s not only clinically excellent, but also personal, coordinated, and community-based.

When you join IIH, you become part of a team committed to making a real difference in the lives of older adults—every single day.

Benefits

• 401(k) 
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Job Summary 

The Food Service Aide prepares and serves food, including texture modified and therapeutic diets, according to the facility menu. The Food Service Aide assists in assuring proper receiving, storage, preparation, serving sanitation and cleaning procedures are followed. 

Essential Job Functions: 

• Prepares food, including modified textures and therapeutic diets. Ensuring meal trays are accurate and complete.
• Updates diet changes as directed by the Registered Dietitians or the Food Service Supervisor.
• Prepares food by methods that conserve nutritive value, flavor and palatability. 
• Prepares, portions, and / or serves food using proper measuring equipment and serving utensils, while maintaining quality control standards. 
• Ensures all food items are handled properly to meet safety and sanitation standards, according to State and Federal regulations. 
• Properly stores and refrigerates necessary food items. 
• Ensures that food is cooked to the appropriate temperatures according to the latest FDA (Food and Drug Administration) standards. 
• Ensure that all hot food is delivered and received at proper temperatures according to the latest FDA standards.
• Responsible for wraps, labels and dates before storing food in the refrigerator. 
• Assisting in stocking food deliveries, ensuring proper storage and First In, First Out (FIFO) rotation is followed.
• Cleans and sanitizes equipment and food preparation area using the appropriate cleaning methods and following established procedures and cleaning schedules.
• Practices safety, infection control and emergency procedures according to facility guidelines.
• Interacts in a manner that is courteous, considerate, and cooperative when communicating with all facility personnel, patients and family members.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings, in-services, projects, and committees assigned.
• Adhere to and support the center’s practices, procedures, and policies including assigned break times and attendance.
• Accept assigned duties in a cooperative manner; and perform all other related duties as assigned.
• Be flexible in schedule of hours worked.
• May require use of personal vehicle, if applicable. If using a personal vehicle, a valid California Driver’s License and proof of vehicle insurance is required.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

The working conditions and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to access all areas of the center throughout the workday.
• Ability to lift up to 35 pounds occasionally, 15 pounds frequently, and 7 pounds constantly; required to obtain assistance of another qualified employee when attempting to lift or transfer objects over 25 pounds.
• Requires constant hand grasp and finger dexterity; frequent sitting, standing, walking and repetitive leg and arm movements, occasional bending, reaching forward and overhead; squatting and kneeling.
• Ability to communicate verbally with an excellent comprehension of the English language.
• Work is generally performed in an indoor, well-lit, well-ventilated, heated, and air-conditioned environment.  

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills,