CRAVEN COUNTY SCHOOLS
School Nutrition Assistant
Job Description
Position: School Nutrition Assistant Reports to: Cafeteria Manager Terms of Employment: Full-Time (6 hours/day), Part-Time (2 ½ to 5 ¾ hours/day) Pay Range: $15.00/hour - $17.77/hour FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Nature of Work
An employee in this class performs semi-skilled work preparing and serving meals and other food in a school cafeteria. The employee is expected to solve most problems independently. Errors can result in spoiled food, illness among consumers, and significantly wasted work hours. Work involves various facets of the food preparation and serving process.
Education and Experience
Graduation from high school. Sufficient education to read at the level of written materials and make arithmetic calculations with considerable experience in quantity food preparation.
Certification and Licensure Requirements (if applicable)
Possession of a valid TB test and health examination issued by the local county board of health or recognized medical authority.
Essential Functions
Typical Tasks
• Maintains a positive working relationship with other employees and staff, politely, respectfully, and efficiently serves students, staff, parents, and others. • Accepts responsibility for multiple tasks without supervision. • Follows a work schedule, a sanitation HACCP schedule, plans ahead, and helps others on the child nutrition team. • Completes production records as instructed on a daily basis. • Takes and records temperatures of food items as instructed. • Cleans oven, steamer, tilt skillet, or other heating equipment in the kitchen. • Cleans refrigerator, milk box, freezer holding cabinets, and all equipment and facilities - including restrooms. • Cleans service line, coolers, freezers, dock areas, and any area as instructed. • Sets up, runs, breaks down, and properly cleans and de-limes the dishwasher. • Cleans windows, walls, tables, and chairs in the dining room. • Takes out trash and washes trash cans. • Rings student meals into POS and collects and records meal money from students and adults accurately executes all cash handling procedures. • Checks in deliveries, puts them in storage, assists with inventory, and dates the food in stock, using foods according to FIFO rules. • Prepares meals by following recipes - does not deviate from recipes. • Prepares bread, biscuits, cookies, etc. by following recipes. • Washes and prepares vegetables and fruit as well as salads and garden bars. • Prepares and sets up any additional foods as assigned, including snacks, condiments, and beverages, sets up the serving line accurately. • Attends all in-service training and workshops, maintains USDA mandated professional standards, follows all policies and procedures for Craven County Schools and the SNS department. • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the PIC, manager, supervisor, director, principal, or administrative staff.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• General knowledge of food preparation and standards of sanitation and • General knowledge of proper storage methods for various foods, supplies, and equipment. • General knowledge of how to operate and clean kitchen equipment. • Ability to exercise independent judgment and to use initiative to resolve problems and make improvements in the cafeteria. • Ability to read and follow standardized recipes and written instructions. • Ability to respond to inquiries regarding food. • Ability to properly clean kitchen area equipment and • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments. • Ability to communicate in a pleasant, positive manner with students, staff, parents, and coworkers.
Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The major physical and cognitive requirements listed below are applicable to the Cafeteria Assistant Temporary Substitute job classification within the School Nutrition Department of Craven County Schools. Work in this classification is considered medium physical work requiring the exertion of up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and up to 30 pounds of force frequently and up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Must be able to stand for six continuous hours. • Must be able to stoop, squat, kneel, and/or bend in a manner that allows the palms to touch the floor as in cleaning of baseboards, equipment. • Must be able to bend from a standing position in a manner that allows the palms to touch the knees as in washing of pots and pans in deep sinks and cleaning milk boxes. • Must be able to bend from the waist in a standing position with arms outstretched for an extended period of time as in serving food. • Must be able to twist, turn, and/or stretch from side to side that allows the shoulders to be perpendicular to the hips as in mopping, sweeping, stocking shelves, removing food from ovens. • Must be able to lift, carry, and/or support 30 pounds from shoulder level to above the head as in placing food in ovens, freezers, stockroom shelves. • Must be able to perform duties requiring repetitive motions with hands and wrists as in slicing, dicing, washing, counting money, writing, scrubbing, scraping. • Must be aware that some food allergies can be worsened by exposure to menu items containing those foods. • Must be aware that skin allergies and sensitivities can be worsened by exposure to some cleaning chemicals. • Must be aware that some breathing difficulties, such as asthma or emphysema, can be worsened by exposure to cleaning. • Must work in a very hot, humid environment with no air conditioning. • Must maintain high standards of personal cleanliness, including bathing daily, using deodorant, wearing clean and pressed uniform and apron, wearing clean and polished shoes, and being free of body odor, dandruff, loose hair, and debris on clothes. • Must learn food preparation, serving, and clean-up procedures. • Must learn sound sanitation principles. • Must understand and follow oral and written directions. • Must read and follow recipes and adjust amounts needed. • Must learn foods, equipment, and techniques used in food preparation, service, and clean-up. • Must read, write, and utilize basic math skills, including multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals. • Must complete production records as needed. • Must use or learn basic computer skills.
In Compliance with Federal Law
Craven County Schools administers all education programs, employment activities, and admissions without discrimination against any person on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, or disability.