Substitute Meal Transporter – Grand Traverse County
Purpose:
To provide home delivered meals to Meals on Wheels seniors, brief companionship, and safety check, and Congregate meals, if applicable, to luncheon sites with positive client interaction.
Essential Functions:
- Pick-up and deliver hot, cold, and frozen meals to home-delivered clients, ensuring special diets are delivered to appropriate clients. Coordinate with meal preparer and/or site manager for the time and number of meals needed daily. Return all equipment used for delivering immediately.
- If applicable, deliver bulk meals to specific congregate locations. Serve as liaison with congregate locations, reporting concerns or problems as they arise.
- Pack vehicle for ease of delivery, ensuring ice packs and/or heat sources are used to maintain proper temperature. Report any problems with temperatures to the office immediately.
- Maintain accurate time, mileage, and meal delivery records, and sign daily. Make notes regarding any changes for the next day if applicable, i.e. differences from printed route sheet, no shows, clients who receive extra meals, etc. Turn in Meals on Wheels and congregate paperwork to office.
- Visit with home-delivered clients. Provide brief companionship and safety check. Treat clients with respect, listen to them, and be empathetic to their needs. Be encouraging to the meal recipient, opening the meal if necessary. Carry emergency information on all clients each day. Report any changes of client physical or mental health, possible problems, or necessity of referral to other programs to office when necessary.
- Collect and account for all donations made by the meal recipients or project income from congregate locations and deliver to the office as needed.
- Attend required trainings.
- Perform other duties as required and assigned.
Position Objectives:
- To provide meal delivery, brief companionship, and safety checks to Meals on Wheels clients and congregate locations with positive client interaction.
- To ensure compliance with all safety and sanitation requirements.
Substitute Meal Transporter – Grand Traverse County
Job Code Number
212317755
Job Description
Substitute Meal Transporter – Grand Traverse County
To provide home delivered meals to Meals on Wheels seniors,
brief companionship and safety check, and Congregate meals.
If applicable, to luncheon sites with positive client interaction.
High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
6 – 10 hours per week, 52 weeks per year. $10.93 per hour.
EOE.
Additional Requirements
Substitute Meal Transporter – Grand Traverse County
Purpose:
To provide home delivered meals to Meals on Wheels seniors, brief companionship, and safety check, and Congregate meals, if applicable, to luncheon sites with positive client interaction.
Essential Functions:
- Pick-up and deliver hot, cold, and frozen meals to home-delivered clients, ensuring special diets are delivered to appropriate clients. Coordinate with meal preparer and/or site manager for the time and number of meals needed daily. Return all equipment used for delivering immediately.
- If applicable, deliver bulk meals to specific congregate locations. Serve as liaison with congregate locations, reporting concerns or problems as they arise.
- Pack vehicle for ease of delivery, ensuring ice packs and/or heat sources are used to maintain proper temperature. Report any problems with temperatures to the office immediately.
- Maintain accurate time, mileage, and meal delivery records, and sign daily. Make notes regarding any changes for the next day if applicable, i.e. differences from printed route sheet, no shows, clients who receive extra meals, etc. Turn in Meals on Wheels and congregate paperwork to office.
- Visit with home-delivered clients. Provide brief companionship and safety check. Treat clients with respect, listen to them, and be empathetic to their needs. Be encouraging to the meal recipient, opening the meal if necessary. Carry emergency information on all clients each day. Report any changes of client physical or mental health, possible problems, or necessity of referral to other programs to office when necessary.
- Collect and account for all donations made by the meal recipients or project income from congregate locations and deliver to the office as needed.
- Attend required trainings.
- Perform other duties as required and assigned.
Position Objectives:
- To provide meal delivery, brief companionship, and safety checks to Meals on Wheels clients and congregate locations with positive client interaction.
- To ensure compliance with all safety and sanitation requirements.
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