Homemaker

Key Responsibilities

• Prepares high quality food in accordance with all pertinent safety and health regulations, guidelines and standards

• Follows menus and recipes correctly, making any necessary or requested substitutions appropriately

• Understands liberalized therapeutic diets and special food requirements and finds ways to make such modifications palatable and enjoyable

• Assists with taking inventory of, storing and ordering household grocery supplies

• Regularly elicits residents’ direction in choices of foods, menus, recipes and presentation

• Maintains equipment and cooking area to ensure safety and sanitation requirements are met; keeps a clean, tidy and organized kitchen in compliance with all regulations; cleans when necessary; reports repair and maintenance needs appropriately

• Takes temperatures of foods and equipment and maintains proper documentation for regulatory compliance

• Helps to prepare and serve appropriate snacks and meals

• Assists residents who are unable to eat without support (with proper training and certification(s)), as appropriate. ServSafe certification is required. Certified Dietary Manager training is encouraged.

• Facilitates mealtime conversations and maintains a warm, pleasant atmosphere while residents are eating

• Facilitates kitchen related activities for residents; ensures that necessary supplies, equipment and utensils are available; organizes any necessary clean-up activities; ensures safety of residents throughout all kitchen processes

• Consistently follows standard principles of sanitation and universal precautions to preserve food quality and prevent the transmission of food-borne illness 

• Maintains clean spaces in the household, including resident rooms, household common spaces, as well as support spaces and equipment

• Maintains supply of all materials to meet resident needs in the household

• Supports all aspects of the household environment in conjunction with all household associates, including pets, plants, children, visitors and guests, facilitating all planned and spontaneous needs and activities

• Coordinates work with the household caregivers to ensure the housekeeping needs of the household are met within the staffing resources of the household

• Complies with all regulatory sanitation requirements pertinent to the physical environment

• Uses appropriate cleaning supplies and equipment to clean floors, furniture, bathrooms and other areas as needed

• Understands and implements universal precautions to prevent transmission of disease through contamination

• Assists residents as needed to wash, mend, iron, fold and sort resident’s personal laundry; supports residents in self-care and provides assistance to ensure resident’s personal laundry is maintained in quality condition

• Coordinates work with the household caregivers to ensure the personal laundry needs of the resident (and household linens if washed in the household) are met within the staffing resources of the household