Hi, I’m
Alice Rochelle Snell
Food Services Aid & Waiter
Cape Town
Summary
Im an experienced Food Services Aid & Waiter in the Catering Department of Grooteschuur Hospital. Willing to be trained.
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level Food Services Supervisor position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
17
years of professional experience
2
years of post-secondary education
3
Certifications
1
Language
Work History
Department Of Health, Grooteschuur Hospital Cape Town
Food Services Aid & Waiter
04.2017 - Current
Job overview
- Follow the standardized hospital menu and recipes.
- Knowledge and understanding of the basic food groups, example African, Kosher, Vegetarian and Ethnic Diets
- Knowledge and understanding of normal and therapeutic diets exa. Normal diet, for patients with no special needs.
- Therapeutic diet for patients with special needs exa. Diabetic, Protein, Soft And Semi Solid diets.
- Following the health and safety standards and regulations
- Maintain General hygiene in the food service unit/kitchen
- Maintenance of safe use and cleaning of all utensils and industrial equipment
- Storing of all provisions, stock, utensils and industrial equipment in the Food Service Unit
- Keep kitchen area clean, dry and hazards free.
- Knowledge of safety and security in the Food Service Unit
- Knowledge of the Cook & Chilli system, storing food inside bulk hold fridge after cooking
- Coordinate and monitor delivery of meals to patients, three times a day, breakfast lunch and supper.
- Serving 10:00am and 14:00pm tea, daily.
- Add food/meals, beverages and utensils on serving trays to deliver/serve patients in wards at scheduled time.
- When patients finished their meals, I collect all trays with crockery and utensils, moving it to recon kitchen, for scrapping out leftover food, from plates, load back into trolley. Then clean cutlery.. Then clean and sanitize kitchen table tops and lastly sweep and wash floor,putting up wet floor sign.
- Report any broken equipment to the supervisor or manager
- Monitoring food safety and sanitation standards in food service recon-kitchen unit
- Detected disposition of spoiled food and other unusual activities.
- Participate in Hurdles/Meetings with medical staff relating to nutrition care.
- Monitor and evaluate patients feedback, documenting results via surveys.
- Assist new staff members with informal training
- In the event of unavailability of the supervisor, I'll be held responsible for upholding the safety measures in kitchen unit.
WKA Cleaning Services Parow
Driver and Site Supervisor
09.2009 - 10.2011
Job overview
- Kept vehicle clean and safe, for transportation of staff to their designated work facilities
- Receive work log sheets for the day,meet staff then allocate each to their area of work..
- Deep cleaning of apartments, residential, commercial and parliamentary buildings.
- Responsible for signing receiving of keys to designated locations, staff do the cleaning requested by the client. I'll check their work standard. When done sign off invoice.. Check premises, check and lock all doors and windows.. Return key from where I received it.. Sign return of key..
- Safe and secure residence personal belongings and furniture
- Dusting, polishing of furniture, empty dirt bins daily, washing of windows, curtains, walls and ceilings
- Deep cleaning of fridges, stoves and microwave
- Staff is responsible for removal of waste to the designated area, my duty to supervise and check that they adhere.
- Maintain conflict control and assessment among staff.
- Adhere to any unhappiness, and listen to staffs needs in respect of their workplace
- Provides them with all necessary protective clothing and equipment..
- Train how safely to use operating scrubbing machines and equipment..
- Maintain a High standard of neatness and hygiene in area of work
- Check that cleaning equipment are cleaned after each use, securely stored.
- Responsible to report any faulty equipment and fill out requisition if needed..
- Report staff issues, which would not be resolved by me, to management.
Netcare Holdings N1 City Goodwood
General Assist(Catering Dept)
05.2006 - 07.2009
Job overview
- Follow health & safety measures or regulations, while preparing snacks, special diets and beverages for patients according to standardized menu.
- Always keep safe and hygienic work space.
- Assist Chefs in preping vegetables or where ever they need assistance
- Correct implementation of color coding of chopping boards, knives and clothes
- Assistance to the Cold and Dessert Department.. In preparation with their menus
- Assistance in the store room, by issuing stock, example, tea, sugar, milk and cutlery packages, to the Ward Hostesses working on ward level serving the patients.
- Adhere to First in, First out system, in every area for Hospital Kitchen Unit.
- High standard in prevention of cross contamination
- Assist the Storeman with stock taking,and cleaning of storeroom
- Also Assist with Temperature control in industrial fridges and freezers,maintain health and safety standards.
- General cleaning duty, in schullery, of all utensils, and industrial equipment.
- Assist with dishing up of the 3 different meals, breakfast, lunch and supper, via conveyor belt, on scheduled meal times
- Temperatures control before serving meals.
- After every meal served for patients, offload and clear plates, to be rinsed and loading to be washed in the industrial platewash machine.. Then offload at the back.. Packed to air dry..
- Responsible for deep clean and scrubbing of floors, fridges, and freezers with necessary safety precautions in place.
- Makes sure that the cleaning equipment is clean and safe after each use and stored in lockable storage room
- Report all error/faulty equipment to supervisor or manager
Education
Rocklands Senior Secondary Rocklands, Mitchelsplain
Grade 9 from Basic Curriculum
01.1984 - 12.1985
Skills
Sanitation practices
Meal Preparation
Meal planning and preparation
PPE Compliance
Training and Development
Problem-Solving
Decision-Making
Staff Leadership/Supervisory
Stock Maintenance /Control
Records Management
Health & Safety measures
Client Service
Book-out and in Key
Housekeeping Services
Cost Effective
Certification
ECOLAB - Food Service Hygiene Training
Timeline
EAGLE- Ms Excel 2016 Basic
09-2020
Food Services Aid & Waiter
Department Of Health, Grooteschuur Hospital
04.2017 - Current
Driver and Site Supervisor
WKA Cleaning Services
09.2009 - 10.2011
ECOLAB - Food Service Hygiene Training
05-2009
General Assist(Catering Dept)
Netcare Holdings N1 City
05.2006 - 07.2009
Rocklands Senior Secondary
Grade 9 from Basic Curriculum
01.1984 - 12.1985