Nativity House Kitchen Team

Do you love to cook, enjoy social interaction and want a volunteer opportunity with a lot of flexibility?

The Nativity House Kitchen, formerly known as the Hospitality Kitchen, is looking for volunteers with basic kitchen skills and a desire to help.

Kitchen hours generally align with set meal times. Most shifts range from 1-4 hours. Our earliest shift starts around 7 am and our latest shift ends around 7 pm. Volunteer shifts are offered 7-days a week and scheduling options are flexible.

Meal Times

• Breakfast @ 8:30 am
• Lunch @ 12 pm
• Dinner @ 5:30 pm

We are always grateful to have volunteer help 30 minutes – 1 hour before meal services start. Meals are served for 1 hour and cleanup generally takes 30-45 minutes after meals.

Scope & Scale:

Our kitchen serves 3 meals per day for the 167 guests staying at Nativity House Shelter. The kitchen team also prepares food deliveries for 2 additional Catholic Community Services sites which serve unhoused adults and families in Tacoma.

Responsibilities

• Assisting staff in preparing breakfast, lunch or dinner for shelter guests
• Helping unload & sort food donations
• Helping pack outbound morning food deliveries
• Greeting guests as they come through the cafeteria line & helping serve meals
• Restocking silverware & supplies needed on the food line
• Cleaning & sanitizing kitchen surfaces
• Assisting with kitchen cleanup throughout the shift & helping tidy up at the end
• Helping run dishes through the industrial dishwasher
• Taking out the trash at the end of the shift

Basic Requirements

• Kind, friendly & able to work with a diverse group of people
• Good sense of humor & flexibility to help where needed
• Volunteers must be at least 18 years old to serve onsite
• Volunteers must pass a background check (processed at no cost to volunteers)
• Volunteers working with food are required to wear food handlers gloves for food safety purposes. Supplies are provided.
• New volunteers will need to attend a volunteer orientation before they can start volunteering

How to get started

Please complete the online volunteer registration form or contact meganed@ccsww.org to request a volunteer registration form. Hard copies of registration materials can be mailed to your address. Copies can also be sent via email or fax.

Questions? Call 253-365-4111 to speak with Megan Edwin, Homeless Adult Services Volunteer Coordinator or email meganed@ccsww.org.