Since 1983 the Commission's Homeless Services Bureau has provided emergency shelter, workforce development, and housing services to individuals experiencing a crisis of homelessness with the goal of making homelessness in Boston rare, brief, and one time. We are one of the largest shelter providers in New England, running two emergency shelters, which operate 24 hours a day 365 days a year, and providing more than 5,000 homeless individuals annually with food, beds, lockers, emergency clothing, health care, case management, and housing services. We use a housing first framework and principles of trauma informed care, restorative justice, and health equity to people move from homelessness to housing as quickly as possible.

The Serving Ourselves Kitchen at Quincy Street helps the Bureau achieve its goals by providing vocational training and employment program for homeless individuals. The program provides participants with the skills, support, and self-esteem necessary to re-enter the community as competitive workers able to live independently. The Serving Ourselves Kitchen team prepares, cooks, and delivers daily safe and nutritious meals for our shelters' guests.

Duties

• Assists in daily running of high-volume institutional kitchen and all off site locations and the preparation and cooking of 1800+ meals per day.
• Responsible for weekly inventory control and ordering of supplies.
• Responsible for scheduling of all staff.
• Assists in preparing meal.
• Provides supervision and training to assigned staff, including Cooks and Kitchen Assistants.
• Provides on the job training and supervision to kitchen client workers.
• Prepares weekly time sheets and employment paperwork.
• Responsible for on going progress reports and evaluations of all participants.
• Ensures and oversees proper sanitation practices in food preparation ad cooking, as well as prep areas.
• Responsible for proper food rotation, labeling and dating of food, where appropriate.
• Responsible for scheduling maintenance and repairs of vehicles and equipment.
• Collaborates with job placement staff to ensure job readiness of participants.
• Works in multi-disciplinary team approach with case managers, cooks and other social services and health services departments of the shelter to enhance individualized training for participants.
• Assists volunteer food groups with food preparation and service as needed.
• Attends bi-weekly kitchen staff meetings and weekly food production meetings.
• Flexible scheduling required due to operational needs.
• Occasional driving needed.
• Performs other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Additional Information

City of Boston Residency Required, A Criminal Offenders Records Information request must be completed for this position. However, a record is not an automatic bar to employment but is reviewed in relation to the job applied for., This position requires direct client/patient contact and as a result of such direct contact, certain immunizations will be recommended and/or required prior to commencement of employment duties., Any position that requires an advanced degree will be subject to education verification, This is a grant funded position, The Boston Public Health Commission is an EEO Employer and all applicants meeting the minimum requirements are eligible to apply