This position is responsible for preparing and serving well balanced, nutritious meals to the children at Kiddin Around Learning Center.

Diana Hardin
dianah@htop.org
970.248.0873

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Employee must have regular attendance/punctuality, be able to cooperate with others, and be completely honest. Other assigned duties include:
1. Planning menus and calculating nutrition content.
2. Preparing meals and snacks daily for various sized groups.
3. Cleaning up after each meal/snack including proper storage of leftovers, cleaning oven and refrigerator, washing dishes, pots and pans, etc.
4. Shopping and ordering food and supplies and unloading the truck.
5. Adhering to budgetary guidelines with respect to shopping and ordering food and supplies.
6. Stocking supplies.
7. Assisting in classroom activities as needed.
8. Coding and signing for invoices as required.
9. Complying with State and County Rules Regulating Child Care Centers issued by the Colorado Department of Human Services – Division of Childcare.
10. Maintaining daily log of food served to children.
11. Submitting all necessary documentation to the Food Program for reimbursement.
12. Responsible for all health and safety inspections of kitchen and dining area.
13. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

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.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and three months or more related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Knowledge of menus, budgeting, child nutrition, and safe food handling is also required.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS PREFERRED:
Education: Valid Food Handler’s Certificate; Certificate in Nutrition Planning; Certificate in Dietician Training; Food Program Training.
Experience: 1 year or more cooking high volume meals; 1 year or more menu planning; 1 year or more meeting food program requirements.
Special Skills: Current CPR Card; First Aide Card; Current Universal Precautions Card; ECCRS Training.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Must be able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, as well as Hilltop and program specific policies and procedures. Must be able to write routine documentation as required. Must be able to verbally communicate effectively with clients and co-workers.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Must be able to add and subtract two digit numbers, and to multiply and divide by 10’s and 100’s. Must be able to perform these operations using units of American money, weight measurements, volume measurement, and distance. Must be able to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY
Must be able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Must be able to interpret instructions that are furnished in a variety of formats including written, oral, diagram, and/or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
• Colorado Driver’s License
• Food handler’s card

CLEARANCES
The following background checks are conducted by Hilltop Community Resources:
• Criminal background
• Child Abuse Registry

EXPOSURE CATEGORY: [ 1 ]
1) - Job tasks involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue.
2) - Job tasks involve no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue, but employment may require unplanned category 1 exposure.

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.

Mobility:
• Must be able to stand 50% of the time; walk 50% of the time.
• Must be able to climb (ascend or descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, etc., using feet and legs and/or hands and arms).
• Must be able to balance (maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces).
• Must be able to stoop (bend body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist).
• Must be able to kneel (bend legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees).
• Must be able to crouch (bend body downward and forward by bending legs and spine).
• Must be able to crawl (move about on hands and knees or hands and feet).
• Must be able to reach (extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction).

Dexterity:
• Must be able to handle (seize, hold, grasp, turn or otherwise work with hand or hands).
• Must be able to finger (grasp, pinch, or otherwise work primarily with fingers).
• Must be able to feel (perceive the attributes of an object, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips).

Lifting:
• Must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force to lift and/or carry objects. Must be able to exert up to 125 pounds of force to push or otherwise move objects.

Communication:
• Must be able to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Must be able to clearly communicate with others by way of the English language.

Hearing:
• Must be able to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Must be able to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Taste/Smell:
• Must be able to distinguish, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognize particular flavors and/or odors, using the tongue and/or nose.

Vision:
• Must have close vision (clear at 20 inches or less).
• Must have far vision (clear at 20 feet or more).
• Must have depth perception (Three-dimensional vision. The ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.)
• Must have the ability to adjust focus (adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
• Must have color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors).
• Must have field of vision (observe an area that can be seen up and down or right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point).

Physical effort level required for essential duties and responsibilities:
• Medium (moderate physical activity required by handling objects up to 50 pounds occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently).

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Physical surroundings:
• Under normal circumstances 100% of time is spent indoors.
• Occasionally exposed to physically and/or verbally aggressive clients.
• The noise level is usually moderate.