Kitchen Aide Intern

Responsibilities:

• Assist staff dietitians with tasks related to client care including preparing food/meals/snacks and putting away grocery deliveries
• Doing dishes preparing food cooking food and simple grocery shopping trips
• Cleaning/tidying kitchen after meals and snacks
• Kitchen chores and Milieu Chores daily (ie deep cleaning restocking items etc.)
• Collaborate with other members of a dynamic multidisciplinary treatment team
• May include some light lifting
• Other tasks as assigned by manager

Requirements:

• Live behave and talk in a way that reflects a non-diet non-weight biased relationship with food and body.
• Exhibit a high degree of confidentiality and personal boundary setting
• Openness to learn new skills and take risks
• Comfortable with basics of nutrition ie basic cooking skills grocery shopping dishwashing etc.

Hours:

8-24 hours weekly; summer hours

Compensation: unpaid

Whitman College students please apply for the Whitman Internship Grant.

Opals Aspiration: To contribute to a world where all are able to live fully with freedom

Opals Vision: To inspire cultural change regarding food body movement and mental health

Opals Mission: To free people from diet culture by offering eating disorder treatment for food body and exercise concerns

Staff Values: Better Together. Curiosity and Learning. Do it. Self-Inquiry. Repeat. Change the Script.

Required Experience:

Junior IC