Food Aide

General Description

The Food Aide assists in the organization delivery and service of nutritious meals and snacks to enrolled children. This role maintains sanitary food service areas and ensures compliance with mandated portion sizes and safety protocols.

• Inspect food items to ensure quality freshness safety and regulatory compliance providing timely feedback to the food vendor.
• Organize the food for infants and toddlers according to the approved menus to ensure all required meal components are present in correct portions for each classrooms age group in compliance with the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
• Facilitate food delivery to classrooms and monitor and document temperatures for both food items and storage/holding equipment to meet local Arizona health regulations.

• Stay informed of current child food allergies and special dietary needs records and strictly execute special meal accommodations without cross-contamination and accurately document dietary modifications.
• In accordance with the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) standards clean and sanitize all kitchen surfaces equipment and meal service areas after every use ensuring all dishes are fully washed and sanitized using the dishwasher.

• Maintain a clean organized food storage area with all items properly labeled and dated.
• Assist with food inventory and maintain records of food purchases and production quantities.
• Prepare job-specific documentation for the Child and Adult Care Food Program CACFP.
• Submit kitchen inventory and food supply requests to the programs assigned staff member within designated timeframes.
• Receive food purchases & rotate inventory based on the first in first outKS4LD5KS6(FIFO) food safety inventory rotationmethod.
• Manage and optimize the use of assigned kitchen resources including food supplies equipment detergents and materials.
• Apply standard food handler safety principles and regulatory guidelines to all daily food service operations.
• Follow the recommendations established by the Department of Health.
• Comply with all state and federal regulations regarding the program.
• Attend all Professional Development training required by the program.

• Complete other related activities and duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Ability to see at normal distance hear normal conversations and sounds and use hands and fingers to fill out required forms. Ability to lift infants and toddlers weighing up to forty (40) pounds twenty (20) pounds overhead and forty (40) pounds from waist to shoulder; occasional lifting of fifty (50) pounds is required and must be able to push/pull up to fifty pounds horizontally. Ability to sit on the floor bend at the waist kneel and/or stoop 75% of the time.

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 as long as the staff disability does not create an undue risk of injury to any enrolled children in the classroom.

Urban Strategies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color gender national origin age sexual orientation disability or other legally protected classifications under applicable federal state and local legal protections.

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