Dietary Aide

Kaiser Permanente • Fontana, CA

261d • Onsite

About The Position

Prepares, assembles, rethermalizes and serves food to patients, cafeteria patrons and catered events. Performs dishwashing and other sanitation duties.

Requirements

• Six months food service experience required.
• Must be able to lift items weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Must push and pull carts weighing 100 lbs.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain positive working relationships and courteous interactions with the public.
• Food Handler Certificate (California)

Nice To Haves

• One year experience or equivalent in a food establishment.
• Knowledge of hospital food service operations.

Responsibilities

• Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Assembles/prepares patient, cafeteria, and catering food to include entree, salad, dessert, beverage, nourishments.
• Prepares tray line, assemble food trays in accordance with worksheets and place assembled food trays on food carts.
• Rethermalizes precooked foods for patients, cafeteria patrons, and catered event participants.
• Sets up and replenishes food and non-food items in cafeteria and conferences and replenishes hot and cold food items on cafeteria and catering lines.
• Labels and refrigerates leftovers.
• Delivers patient tray carts and nourishments to food distribution centers on each floor.
• Serves trays to patients.
• Serves food to cafeteria and conference patrons.
• Returns trays and carts to dishwashing area.
• Sanitizes carts after each use; operates dishwasher to wash all dishes, trays, and utensils; washes pots and pans, stores cleaned items according to established procedure.
• Cleans various areas and equipment to include serving and dining areas, steam table, refrigerators, microwave ovens, and other equipment used in performing their tasks.
• Receives and stores delivered food; paper and supplies and verify orders received.
• Establishes and maintains courteous, cooperative relations when interacting with other personnel, health plan members and the public.
• Performs other related duties as required.
• Promotes, ensures, and improves customer service to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills which are consistent with the organizations philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service.
• Assume other activities and responsibilities from time to time as directed.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services