Food Service Assistant - Evening Shift
About The Position
The Food Service Assistant supports kitchen and patient meal service at Hartwell Health & Rehab. The role assists cooks with meal, dessert, snack, salad, and nourishment preparation; sets up and serves the tray line; delivers meals and beverages; and follows patients’ diet and NPO orders. It also involves cleaning and sanitizing kitchen areas, dishes, equipment, and garbage containers; monitoring and recording food-storage and dishwashing temperatures; checking stock and chemical levels; and storing supplies and leftovers appropriately. The position requires following food-service, infection-control, and procedural guidelines, as well as communicating in a warm, helpful, and professional manner with associates, patients, families, and visitors. Pay is $15.16 per hour, with weekly pay.
Requirements
- Ability to communicate effectively and provide a warm, friendly, approachable, and helpful manner with associates, patients, family members, and visitors.
- Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and speak effectively before groups of customers or associates.
- Ability to perform arithmetic using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and address problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word.
- Ability to meet the described physical demands, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.
Nice To Haves
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
Responsibilities
- Assist the cook with preparing meals, desserts, snacks, salads, and other dishes.
- Prepare between-meal nourishments, including sandwiches, and serve nourishments according to procedures.
- Set up the tray line and provide tray-line service, following diet and NPO orders and offering and recording menu substitutions according to guidelines.
- Carry trays to patients, serve meals in the dining area, and pour or serve beverages, including coffee and tea.
- Clean dining tables after meals and clean the work area, including sweeping and mopping.
- Scrape and wash dishes, pots, and pans; operate the dish machine and garbage disposal.
- Clean kitchen equipment and surfaces, including carts, counters, appliances, and food-service equipment.
- Remove kitchen garbage and hose out garbage containers.
- Record freezer and walk-in refrigerator temperatures and check and record dishwashing and sink water temperatures.
- Check stock and put supplies away appropriately; store cleaning materials, leftovers, and opened food correctly.
- Check dishwasher sanitizer strips and chemical levels, replacing chemicals as needed.
- Follow infection-control policies, standardized recipes, and procedures for serving associate meals.
- Communicate with associates, patients, family members, and visitors in a friendly and professional manner; respond to concerns and answer questions appropriately.
- Contribute to committees, workgroups, project management, and other collaborative System efforts.
- Perform other duties as necessary to support the System.
Benefits
- myFlexPay, with the ability to receive pay before payday
- Paid time off with the ability to cash out
- Seven paid holidays
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) with match
- Referral bonus program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
