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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 days ago
On-site Tuskegee, AL $18.6 – $21.7/hr Apply by Jun 16, 2026 Food Service Working ESFJESFPISFJISTJ Hospitality
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The Montgomery VA is actively hiring for one (1) Food Service Worker within Nutrition and Food Services in various locations. Food Service Workers have an understanding of special procedures in preparing food and serving patients within the medical center. Work involving actual food preparation is accomplished under the guidance of a cook who provides technical instruction and checks work in progress and upon completion for conformance with acceptable food service practices.
What You'll Do
- →Set up assigned station with the correct supplies and food items.
- →Serve food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers, patients, and resident's plates.
- →Break down and clean the station when assigned.
- →Set up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items, as necessary.
- →Return soiled trays and dishes to the dish room.
- →Deliver meal trays to the patient's bedsides and report the patients comments and complaints to the supervisor or dietician.
- →Prepare beverages according to the number of servings required.
- →Prepare fresh fruit, cold salads, dressings, sandwich fillings, cold sandwiches, and simple cold desserts in specified quantities.
- →Sort, wash, peel and cut cold foods using knives or other equipment.
- →Provide help to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes.
- →Prepare uncooked food items, such as a sandwich spread and salad dressings.
- →Operate and break down and clean all equipment assigned to food service and related areas.
- →Portion food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and specified dishware.
- →Prepare boxed and to go meals.
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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