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Primary City/State:

Sun City, Arizona

Department Name:

Olive Branch Sr Ctr-Corp

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Facilities, Environmental Services, and Culinary

You have a place in the health care industry. If you’re looking to leverage your abilities to make a real difference – and real change in the health care industry – you belong at Banner Health. Apply today.

Banner Olive Branch Senior Center has been a key community services provider in Sun City for over 30 years! Banner Olive Branch has received a national recognition for our innovative senior center programs focusing on addressing “social determinants of health” including food insecurity, loneliness/depression, and other basic non-medical needs that contribute to poor health outcomes in seniors. The Banner Olive Branch Senior Center is receives funding from AZ Area on Aging, United Way, and other community organizations. The center partners with St. Mary’s Food Bank offering daily food pantry and monthly mobile food pantry to residents of Sun City. The Banner Olive Branch Center provided over 100,000 congregate and home delivered meals in 2020!­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

As an Business Support Assistant at the Banner Olive Branch Senior Center, you will have the opportunity to provide excellent service which is part of the Home-Delivered Meal Program. The Center delivers hot, nutritious meals to homebound seniors. This position will coordinate activities, work with Volunteers, develop a monthly calendar and provide support to members. **No nights, weekends, or Holidays! This position is scheduled Monday - Friday 7am - 3pm.**

Since 1988, Banner Olive Branch Senior Center has been providing services to our community to help participants remain healthy, active and independent. The center offers a variety of social and educational activities as well as delicious and nutritious meals. The Banner Olive Branch Senior Center is a great opportunity to provide compassionate, professional and outstanding service for older adults interested in socializing in an environment that meets their needs.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position produces all required food items based on information obtained from production sheets, catering requests, prep sheets and any other approved source. Plans and conducts daily work to meet food production and service time requirements.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Prepares and cooks hot and cold food items using standardized recipes and calculates production quantities based on production forecast, tally sheets and catering orders.

2. May be assigned to work in the retail cafe grill area, and/or cook breakfast items.

3. Records over production and run outs. Writes directions and calculates production quantities.

4. Checks and logs food and equipment temperatures and reports any problems to the supervisor. Reports all needed equipment repair.

5. Maintains par levels of food and supplies in assigned areas, orders and/or restocks items in accordance with established routines, rotates food stocks, checks freshness dates.

6. Keeps assigned work areas clean and in an orderly manner.

7. Assists other kitchen and dietary staff as needed and assigned. May oversee the scheduled shift for efficiency.

8. Department responsibilities only, normally deals with internal staff. May deal with customers in grill or exhibition position in retail units. Follows established procedures, recipes and work routines under general supervision.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

This position requires the knowledge and abilities in institutional food production normally acquired with one or more years of work experience in production cooking. Must be able to learn and follow established policies and procedures, read and understand written and verbal instruction, communicate effectively, and perform simple math calculations. Must be able to learn food handling regulations and pass certification tests as required. Must possess good interpersonal skills and be able to perform tasks within limited time frames. Must be able to follow production and cleaning schedules, use chemicals safely, read thermometers and follow safety requirements.

For Banner Staffing Services (BSS) team members, the food handlers' card is required within 30 days of hire. For BSS team members in Tucson and Colorado, the food handlers' card is not required.

All onsite food service equipment including stoves, ovens, steam-jacketed kettles, tilt skillet, broiler, steam table, grill, deep fryer, slicer, Buffalo Chopper, mixer, food carts, dish racks, cleaning equipment and hazardous chemicals used in cleaning and sanitation.

Must be 18 yrs of age or older to comply with Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requirements as the role may be expected to set up, operate and/or repair power-driven bakery and meat processing machines.

Employees working at Banner Behavioral Health Hospital must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment. An Arizona Criminal History Affidavit must be signed upon hire. Employees working at Olive Branch Senior Center must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

High school diploma/GED or equivalent working knowledge.

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

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