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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
On-site Albuquerque, NM $19.8 – $23.2/hr Apply by Jun 23, 2026 Food Service Working ESFJESFPISFJISTJ OperationsHealthcareHospitality
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The New Mexico VA Healthcare Network is hiring a Food Service Worker for the Nutrition and Food Service Line. Responsibilities include food prep, modified diets, dishwashing, storage, and sanitation, requiring independent handling of specialized tasks and strong knowledge of service operations and computer use.
What You'll Do
- →Include but are not limited to following: Make final check of diet trays assembled by lower grade workers for completeness, correct food temperatures.
- →Verify food items on the tray are appropriate for the prescribed diet.
- →Identifies obvious discrepancies between prescribed diets and the food items designated by the menu.
- →Decide what food items to serve for the most common diets when the diet card or tray ticket identified only the kind of diet called for.
- →Distributes menus and surveys to patients. provides patients with basic information about modified diets and the nutrition services that are available.
- →Sets up the assigned station on the tray line with the correct supplies and food items.
- →Prepares beverages according to the number of servings required.
- →Prepares fresh fruit, cold salads, dressings, sandwich fillings, cold sandwiches, and simple cold desserts in specified quantities.
- →Sorts, washes, peels, and cuts cold foods using knives or other equipment.
- →Provides assistance to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weighing, measuring, and assembling ingredients according to standardized recipes.
- →Prepares uncooked food items like sandwich spreads and salad dressings.
- →Operates, breaks down, and cleans all equipment assigned to food service and related areas.
- →Prepare individual and bulk nourishments and supplemental foods and beverages for patients.
- →Follows directions in assembling, measuring, weighing, or mixing ingredients for basic formulas and supplemental feedings, following standardized recipes and sanitary techniques.
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.
Personality Fit
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