Kitchen Aide Intern

Responsibilities:  

• Assist staff dietitians with tasks related to client care, including preparing food/meals/snacks and  putting away grocery deliveries
• Doing dishes, preparing food, cooking food, and simple grocery shopping trips
• Cleaning/tidying kitchen after meals and snacks
• Kitchen chores and Milieu Chores daily (ie, deep cleaning, restocking items, etc.) 
• Collaborate with other members of a dynamic, multidisciplinary treatment team
• May include some light lifting
• Other tasks as assigned by manager

Requirements: 

• Live, behave and talk in a way that reflects a non-diet, non-weight biased relationship with food and body.
• Exhibit a high degree of confidentiality and personal boundary setting
• Openness to learn new skills and take risks
• Comfortable with basics of nutrition, ie basic cooking skills, grocery shopping, dishwashing, etc.

Hours: 

8-24 hours weekly; summer hours

Compensation:   unpaid

Whitman College students please apply for the Whitman Internship Grant.

Opal’s Aspiration:  To contribute to a world where all are able to live fully with freedom

Opal’s Vision: To inspire cultural change regarding food, body, movement and mental health

Opal’s Mission: To free people from diet culture by offering eating disorder treatment for food, body and exercise concerns

Staff  Values:  Better Together.      Curiosity and Learning.      Do it. Self-Inquiry. Repeat.      Change the Script.