at COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY d/b/a CJE SeniorLife in Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
“GET PAID DAILY WITH DAILYPAY”- DailyPay is a voluntary benefit that allows you access to your earned pay when you need it, with additional ways to help you save.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serves residents in the dining room.
- Takes food orders from residents and staff.
- Performs duties for room service.
- Carries pans, kettles, and trays of food to and from workstations, stove, and refrigerator.
- Properly stores foods in designated areas following wrapping, dating, and rotation procedures.
- Cleans work areas, equipment, and utensils.
- Serves food at proper temperatures and good presentation.
- Serves customers in an efficient and friendly manner.
- Resolves customer concerns.
- Interacts with co-workers to ensure compliance with company service standards.
- Other duties as assigned.
Corporate Compliance
- Complies with safety policies and procedures.
- Adheres to laws regarding the protection, use, disclosure, and release of client and CJE business information.
- Attends required in services.
- Reports violations of law, regulations, policies, or procedures.
- Reports client abuse or neglect.
- Records documentation timely, accurately, and completely.
- This position has responsibility for HIPAA compliance in the execution of duties as well as for assuring that subordinate department members are HIPAA trained and compliant.
- Exposure to bloodborne pathogens is not likely to occur in this position.
Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Associate must pass Illinois Food Handler Course within 60 days of hire. Three attempts will be provided to pass this course within the first 60 days of hire. In the event that the associate does not pass the course termination will be pursued. This certification must be maintained throughout the course of employment.
Education and/or Experience
High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) preferred; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Skills
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Physical Demands
The 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.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
- The employee frequently is required to stand on a tile floor for extended hours and maneuver independently and safely around work area.
- The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally life and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
- Sufficient manual dexterity to operate a fire extinguisher and to manipulate kitchen equipment, including slicer, chopper, processor, knives, etc.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- Must meet state and local health requirements for food handlers.
- Must possess valid food handlers permit.
Customer Service
Displays behavior that creates a customer service culture at CJE by understanding the needs of our clients and customers and demonstrating a strong bias toward service, quality and customer satisfaction.
CJE Values
All staff should demonstrate the CJE Values in their behaviors and work practices.
- Respect—We recognize, honor, and acknowledge the inherent value of each person for their wisdom, their culture, their background and their unique history.
- Advocacy—We encourage public policy which will benefit our clients by educating ourselves and the community. Furthermore, we give voice to our clients’ needs and facilitate positive action on their behalf.
- Compassion—We treat everyone with caring, sensitivity, understanding, and supportive responsiveness.
- Innovation—We continue to advance our knowledge and strive to develop, evaluate, and implement new and advanced programming and models of care to bring benefits to our clients, community and broader older adult/health care environment.
- Intention—We approach our work and each task with mindful consideration as to what we are doing and why we are doing it, as individuals and as an agency.
- Accountability—We are responsible individually and as an Agency for honest, accurate work and interaction with others. We plan strategically and provide measurable quality care with clear fiscal and ethical responsibility.
CJE SeniorLife is an equal opportunity employer.
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