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Veterans Health Administration · Posted 11 days ago
About the Role
TWO PAGE RESUME REQUIREMENT APPLIES TO THIS POSITION. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has adopted the Nutrition and Food Service (NFS) Modernization Initiative which is a new model of organizing and consolidating essential Nutrition and Food Service functions and services to the Medical Center. This streamlined and focused approach moves VHA forward in its continuum of providing comprehensive, compassionate, and coordinated care to Veterans.
What You'll Do
- →Duties of the position may include but, are not limited to: Food Preparation Independently prepares all types of food for regular and modified diets.
- →Incumbent prepares, cooks, seasons, and portions food for all meals so that the completed food products are ready at the appropriate temperature and time and are visually appealing to customers.
- →Prepares menu items using special or difficult recipes that require numerous interrelated steps, many ingredients, and lengthy preparation time.
- →The incumbent prepares a variety of menu items using several different and complex methods of preparation such as cook/chill and cook/serve.
- →Follows menus, production sheets and recipes to prepare items in the quantity needed.
- →Calculate and determine serving portions from quantities of food issued to include meats, poultry, seafood, vegetables, fruits, sauces, and gravies for regular and modified diets.
- →Prepare or coordinate the preparation of entire meals and prepare, season, and determine serving portion food for all meals by following standardized, special, or difficult recipes.
- →Coordinates cooking of several items with different cooking times and characteristics.
- →Prepares complex recipes with multiple steps and lengthy preparation times.
- →Cooking techniques (such as sous vide, and combi-oven) may be employed.
- →Coordinates the cooking of items prepared by other cooks at one or more work centers.
- →May lead lower-graded cooks engaged in a variety of standard cooking operations simultaneously at one or more work centers.
- →Attractively presents and garnishes food.
- →Cooks hot cereals, concentrated or dehydrated soups, sauces, gravies.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Physical Requirements: Is subject to continuous standing, walking, frequent bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
- ✓Lifts or moves objects weighing up to 40 lbs. unassisted and occasionally lifts or moves objects weighing more than 40 lbs. with assistance of a lifting device or other workers.
- ✓Manipulates cumbersome, heavy objects, such as washing stainless steel mixing bowls, pushing heavy carts on casters or operating heavy equipment.
- ✓Possesses manual dexterity to operate equipment and to handle sharp knives and blades safely.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 1168c039-57b9-46aa-9397-acff588b00d8
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