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Geisinger is hiring a Foodservice Lead. The Foodservice Lead at Geisinger Community Medical Center performs duties as the designated Person In Charge, prioritizing foodservice operations, coordinating staff, and ensuring compliance with food code regulations while providing leadership and support to team members.
Key focus areas include Act as the Designated PIC during assigned shifts, Open or close department, handling locks, equipment, and cash, and Cover call‑offs by adjusting schedules and calling in staff.
Important skills include Communication, Computer Literacy, Confidentiality, Leads Others, Organizing, and Policy Procedures.
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Location:
Geisinger Community Medical Center (GCMC)
Shift:
Rotation (United States of America)
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Worker Type:
Regular
Exemption Status:
No
Job Summary:
Can perform assigned duties as a designated PIC (Person In Charge). Works in a self-directed manner to prioritize the established functions of foodservice operations. Assists with coordinating staff activities to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of foodservice daily tasks. Performs routine assignments related to foodservice operations. Ensures a professional and appropriate service standard and monitors other staff for compliance with regulations related to food code and food service. Provides leadership and support to other team members. Follows established system wide enterprise and department policies and procedures.
Job Duties:
- Acts as the Designated PIC (See “Authority & Chain of Command, Foodservice” Policy) at assigned times or shifts.
- Opens or Closes department: Lock / unlock doors, equipment, safe for cash handling
- Covers Call Off’s: Manipulates schedule to cover open shifts by calling in other employees or asking staff to stay.
- Solicits and encourages staff suggestions for process improvements
- Works to promote a team environment and open communication within the work area.
- Monitors, clears alerts/alarms, and takes appropriate corrective action when necessary
- Takes and records food temperatures of food being held for service. Takes corrective action when necessary.
- Ensures recipe compliance, performs, or inputs test trays, patient rounding, communication with CDO, timely execution of tray line, enforces tray standards.
- Cash handling as instructed, temperature monitoring, staff monitoring. sanitation monitoring, portion control, customer service
- Updates daily communication boards with information including counts, product outages, PIC name, etc.
- Monitors cleaning assignments or cleaning assignments lists, monitors staff to ensure they are cleaning and sanitizing correctly.
- Monitor staff tasks to completion and acts a mentor to staff. May train staff
- Places maintenance requests for broken equipment to Facilities
- Additionally, Leads perform daily tasks in their area of focus as part of a workflow that is separate from Lead Duties.
- Read and interpret patient meal tickets, read and confirm patient identifiers, recipes, ingredients, labels and dating.
Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.
Position Details:
- New Hires are eligible for a bonus up to $2,500!
- Must be available to work rotating weekends/holidays
- Eligible for shift differential
- To learn about our Foodservice team, click here: https://jobs.geisinger.org/food
Education:
High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Preferred)
Experience:
Minimum of 3 years-Related work experience (Required)
Certification(s) and License(s):
ServSafe Certified within 6 months - National Restaurant Association
Skills:
Communication, Computer Literacy, Confidentiality, Leads Others, Organizing, Policy Procedures, Teamwork
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.
- KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
- EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
- LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
- INNOVATION : We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
- SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.
We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.