Head Start Kitchen Aide Resume Example
A creative and innovative educator with experience teaching individuals of various ages, backgrounds, and with diverse needs and abilities, committed to providing individualized and intentional lessons and support to youth. Education endeavors typically focus on Garden to Table, Nutrition, Cooking, and overall Health and Wellness. A dependable team-player who brings excitement and a positive attitude to the workplace.
- Supervised groups of adolescent students in completion of farm tasks
- Provided emotional support and conflict resolution as necessary
- Taught weekly interactive cooking and nutrition class, featuring produce grown in students' beds
- Participated in weekly collaborative meetings with staff, volunteers, and interns to hone programming to suit needs of group
- Provided support at fundraising events (UHT, Garden and Art Tour)
- Worked alongside nutrition educator to plan and teach interactive cooking classes to adults with LHA
- Designed educational handouts with various age targets, to be utilized by Food Bank
- Directed family-style meal time for pre-school students and assembled cooked meals
- Maintained production records; maintained and followed records of students' specific dietary restrictions and needs
- Strictly followed food safety guidelines and ensured no cross contamination occurred
- Supervised children during recess, and provided assistance in classrooms as necessary
- Communicated with students in English and Spanish
- Collaborated with the health and nutrition coordinator to increase child nutrition, meal satisfaction, and to decrease waste in our program
- Oversaw effective and efficient preparation of up to 3,000 meals and snacks daily, according to CACFP guidelines
- Greeted employees and large groups of volunteers, and provided food safety instruction
- Delegated food preparation tasks; kept volunteers and employees on track, and ensured food safety measures were followed, while maintaining fun atmosphere
- Invented and assembled all meals for children with severe food allergies, guaranteeing no cross contamination occurred
- Maintained records of meal components provided to students with dietary restrictions
- Communicated with medical staff about patients' dietary needs and utilized software to reflect determined dietary treatment
- Provided exemplary service to patients in assisting with meal selections, according to individualized diet plan
- Ensured that each patient's meals provided adequate caloric and macro/micronutrient needs, and restrictions were followed
- Received orders for enteral nutrition formula and other nourishment, and delivered them to nurses
- Delivered nutritious meals to multiple school and public park sites that qualified for federal meal program
- Supervised large groups of children to ensure fun and safe time; directed games and activities to encourage exercise and wellness
- Collaborated with mobile fit team to develop summer curriculum, including nutrition lessons, STEM projects, reading goals, and teamwork-building activities
- Organization and attention to detail
- Strong leadership abilities
- Creative problem-solving
- Expertise of food safety measures
- Highly skilled in customer/patient service
- Ability to tailor education style to reflect needs of individual and group
Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.92 (2017)
Earned the award Most Outstanding Rising Senior in Dietetics program (2016)
Elected Most Outstanding Teacher's Assistant and received the Nita and Irvine Grote Scholarship (2016)
Northside Neighborhood House: Demonstrated techniques for interactive cooking class; taught adults nutrition concepts and provided budgeting tips. Helped design inexpensive, balanced meals for low-income, at-risk families to recreate on their own
East Lake Academy: Mentored middle school students weekly in nutrition and wellness, and took anthropometric measures over the course of a year, as part of a research project
Crabtree Farms: Completed miscellaneous farm tasks; aided in field trip demonstrations
The Big Latch: Provided nourishment to breastfeeding moms; counted latched infants in attempt to set public breastfeeding record
Clean Vibes: Educated music festival patrons about properly disposing of waste between compostables, recyclables, and landfill
Play, Believe, Achieve: Aided middle school students in making healthy snacks while creating dialogue about nutrition as part of health
- Planning and tending to the home garden
- Building and creating up-cycled clothing and art from used items and litter
- Identifying and cooking with local plants and fungus
- Outdoor recreation activities
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Resume Overview
School Attended
- University of Tennesee- Chattanooga
Job Titles Held:
- Intern
- Head Start Kitchen Aide
- Food Prep Supervisor; Dietary Specialist
- Diet Clerk
- Mobile Fit Trainer
Degrees
- Bachelor of Science : Dietetics
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