Dining Services Position
This position is open to current Colorado residents only. This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies at the Colorado Veterans Community Living Center (VCLC) at Fitzsimons, a skilled nursing facility serving Colorado's veterans. The center provides long-term care, short-term rehab, and a secure memory care neighborhood. It is located on the medical campus with UC Hospital and the Aurora VA Medical Center.
This position functions independently in performing a full range of responsibilities that include cooking meals in the main and satellite kitchens, serving residents, cleaning, sanitation, and related tasks. This includes following generally accepted and facility food service standards. This position performs a variety of heavy manual labor food service duties, including cleaning and sanitizing the kitchen, the kitchen equipment, utensils, dishes, pots and pans. It requires heavy lifting, manual labor, and long periods of standing and walking, which includes delivering the food hot boxes to the satellite kitchens. This position helps to stock and maintain par levels in the storeroom, coolers and freezers, and supervises the above-mentioned tasks and responsibilities in the absence of the Food Services Director.
Additionally, in the Dining Services position you will:
- Supervise, train, and evaluate food service staff, handling performance reviews, progressive discipline, grievances, and shift coverage.
- Prepare, plate, and serve high-quality meals, snacks, and desserts, strictly following standardized recipes and specific dietary textures (e.g., pureed, soft).
- Monitor, record, and instantly correct hot and cold food temperatures during preparation, storage, and service to guarantee resident safety.
- Provide exceptional dining experiences for residents across various dining rooms and special events, actively communicating their dietary feedback and preferences to management.
- Execute daily and weekly cleaning checklists to sanitize the main kitchen, satellite areas, equipment, walk-in refrigerators, and dining rooms.
- Wash and sanitize all dishes, pots, pans, and silverware, and maintain the cleanliness of trash disposal and dumpster areas.
- Assist with supply inventory, organize storerooms, and audit refrigerators and freezers for proper temperatures, accurate labeling, and expiration dates.
- Safely transport and distribute meals, snacks, and supplements to appropriate facility units and neighborhood storage areas.
- Conduct dining room meal-service audits, ensure staff compliance with sanitation standards, and immediately communicate department concerns to the Food Service Director.
- Operate and maintain all kitchen equipment according to established safety guidelines, cleaning each piece immediately after use.
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum qualifications include four (4) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position with one (1) year of long-term care experience. This position will have direct contact with vulnerable persons and will require a full background check including a CBI & FBI fingerprint check, Colorado Court Database check, Medicare Fraud Database, and TRAILS Database check. This position also requires State of Colorado residency at the time of application and throughout the duration of employment.
The Colorado Department of Human Services offers strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits, medical and dental health plans, employer-supplemented Health Savings Account, paid life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave, State of Colorado Employee BenefitHub Resource Center, Employee Wellness program, excellent work-life programs, remote work arrangements for eligible positions, and may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.