Substitute Nutrition Site Coordinator - Woodburn, OR 198-01-26

NWSDS

Kitchen Assistant, OR

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
LOCATION
Kitchen Assistant, OR
POSTED
30+ days ago
Job Description:

Looking for a great Part-time/On-Call Opportunity?

We are looking to establish a pool of qualified candidates to help cover our Senior Meal Sites in Marion, Polk, Yamhill, Clatsop, and Tillamook counties during absences of the assigned Meal Site Coordinator.

The ideal candidate will:

- Be passionate about providing excellent customer service in a professional and positive way. 

- Have food service/handling and community service experience.

- Like working with Seniors.

You will make sure food is presented and served, help coordinate volunteers serving at the meal site and delivering meals to homebound seniors, as well as handle cash and paperwork.

The position is On-Call, working as needed to cover absences. 

Starting pay is $17.66 per hour. Please see the job description below.  An offer of employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

Location: Woodburn, OR

Closes: February 10, 2026 

General Description

Meets Agency Mission to promote health and wellbeing of individuals in the community by
overseeing a partial or full week congregate Nutrition Meal Site providing home delivered
meals.

Essential Functions

1. Ensures successful operation of a congregate nutrition meal site and delivery of meals
    to homebound participants
2. Provides for social needs of program participants
3. Develops and maintains a group of volunteers to provide nutrition services
4. Promotes Agency and nutrition services
5. Promotes person centered services
6. Protects consumers and reduces Agency risk

1. Ensures successful operation of a congregate nutrition meal site and delivery of
    meals to homebound participants
*   Receive, hold, prepare and serve all foods in compliance with proper health and
     sanitation requirements
*   Ensure home delivered meals are prepared, accurately packaged and timely
     distributed to home bound program participants, as well as deliver meals in the
     absence of volunteers
*   Obtain meal selections from participants and submitting accurate and timely meal
     counts
*   Collect confidential program participant information
*   Complete annual home-delivered meal participant assessments and maintain
     regular communication with participants between annual assessments
*   Collect, report, and safeguard program income and donations
*   Gather program data and accurately complete reports to measure progress in
     meeting program performance goals

2. Provides for social needs of program participants
*   Ensure a friendly, clean and inviting atmosphere at meal sites during congregate
     meals
*   Acknowledge holidays, organize special events and fun activities, etc., within
     budget
*   Develop and maintain a trusted relationship with program participants by being
     patient, open-minded, compassionate, flexible, responsible, supportive and
     following through
*   Promote friendly interactions between volunteers and home bound participants
     while delivering meals and onsite
*   Facilitate problem resolution onsite and in the field
*   Conduct regular congregate meal site/delivery site safety checks

3. Develops and maintains a group of volunteers to provide nutrition services:
*   Recruit, supervise, and train volunteers
*   Increase volunteer participation through outreach
*   Engage, support, motivate, and recognizing volunteers
*   Ensure volunteers meet standards, such as background checks, knowledge of and
     adherence to program requirements, etc.
*   Release volunteers from service when necessary
*   Provide volunteers with agency volunteer insurance information and notify
     managers of any injuries or accidents

4. Promotes Agency and nutrition services
*   Participate in community outreach and activity planning
*   Collaborate with program partners, providing information to community groups
     and media
*   Develop and implement strategies and activities to meet program goals, such as
     fundraising and volunteer recruitment
*   Motivate participants to engage in a variety of health promotion activities

5. Promotes person centered services
*   Embrace and exhibit the Agency Mission, Vision and Core Values
*   Provide excellent customer service, meet the needs of participants, following
     through, meet deadlines
*   Interact with others in a respectful and culturally appropriate manner
*   Utilize language services to communicate with individuals whose primary language
     skills are non-English
*   Maintain the skills and the knowledge to perform the job
*   Educate self and others of resources available for populations served by referring to
     Aging and Disability Resource Connection of Oregon (ADRC) database
*   Access ADRC Specialists, other Agency staff and community services partners
*   Provide suggestions for improvement
*   Perform other duties as assigned by management
     (FOR BILINGUAL POSITIONS ONLY)
*   Ensure Non-English speaking consumers receive services
*   Communicate with and provide services to individuals whose primary language
     skills are non-English.
*   Serve as an interpreter for the Agency in identified language pair, including oral
     and written, interpret and explain forms, explain rules and policies, etc.
*   Translation of written materials.

6. Protects consumers and reduces Agency risk
*   Follow policies, regulations and requirements of program and Agency
*   Provide documentation as set forth by Federal, State, funding regulations, and
     Agency policy
*   Serve as a Mandatory Reporter of suspected abuse of vulnerable populations as
     required by policy and regulation, including oversight of volunteer contact and
     reporting
*   Maintain and share information according to privacy policies and regulations,
     including oversight of volunteer confidentiality requirements

Secondary Outcomes
None.

Supervisory Responsibilities
Supervises meal site and home delivery volunteers. May help train substitute nutrition site
coordinators.

About the Company

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