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Temporary Aide (Dining Services) - Veterans Community Living Center Fitzsimons - Aurora, CO
State of ColoradoUnited Statespart_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Aug 2026
💰 $42,680/yr
About the role
Posting number: ILG 80005 08/03/2026
Department: Colorado Department of Human Services
Division: OAADS - Colorado State Veterans Home at Fitzsimons
Job classification: Dining Services III
Posting type: Open & Promotional
Categories: Food Services, Human Services, Veteran Services, Nutrition
Summary
This position is open to current Colorado residents only.
This position is open to current Colorado residents only.
Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.
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, short-term rehab, and have a secured memory care neighborhood, and are conveniently located on the medical campus with UC Hospital and the Aurora VA Medical Center. Fitzsimons celebrates a low 14% staff turnover rate and substantial longevity among staff.
Visit us online at: www.colorado.gov/cdhs/veteranshomes/fitzsimons
Examples of duties
The work unit exists to provide quality care to residents by meeting or exceeding the standards as 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, ensuring meals are served timely at the correct temperature, and accurately maintaining diet cards, within state and federal regulations. Additionally, the work unit maintains a sanitary and safe work environment.Additionally, in the Dining Services position, you can expect to:
- Main kitchen sanitation
- Follow the kitchen and satellite daily and weekly cleaning checklist
- Clean kitchen, equipment, and floors at the end of each shift
- Clean and sanitize all kitchen food service equipment
- Collect and dispose of trash
- Follow standardized recipes
- Prepare meals to appropriate temperatures and textures: pureed, mechanical, regular, hot, and cold items
- Prepare all aspects of meals to food safety standards, visual appeal, and palatability for residents
- Prepare enough of all menu items for residents, including therapeutic diets in the appropriate texture and temperature
- Monitor all food temperatures and record on the proper form while food is removed from the oven/cooling unit and before the items leave the main kitchens.
- Make sure that every item is at the appropriate temperature to be served
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Experience Only:
- Two (2) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position
No Substitutions
Preferred Qualifications & Desirable Competencies:
- Experience in food service
- Certification of ServSafe Class
- Experience working in a hospital or living center
- Knowledge of health operational requirements, hazards, and precautionary measures taken within a food service unit
- Knowledge of institutional food service procedures and practices
- Knowledge of weights, measures (e.g., food scales, measuring cups, and spoons), and food measurement techniques
- Knowledge of techniques used in mixing food (e.g., gelatin, pancake batter, salad dressing, scrambled eggs, etc.)
- Knowledge of meat and vegetable preparation methods (clean, cut, cube, grind, peel, dice, grate, slice, chop, and tenderize)
- Knowledge of cooking methods (e.g., frying, deep-fat frying, boiling, or baking)
- Knowledge of the use of kitchen utensils in serving or portioning meals
- Knowledge of food safety related to handling and storing cooked foods, serving and storing temperatures, or reading food thermometers
- Ability to read English at the level necessary for interpreting, understanding, and scaling written recipes, menus, nutrition labels, diet slips, portioning she
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