Food Service Worker - Full Time
About The Position
The Food Service Worker cleans and sanitizes dishes, utensils, pots, pans, and carts used for retail and room-service operations. The role also assists with patient meal carts and deliveries, meals on wheels, catering, food preparation, café duties, taking calls, setting up cold items on trays, and expediting trays as a backup to the host or hostess. Dish-room duties include maintaining kitchen sanitation; cleaning floors, walls, equipment, and work areas; operating and cleaning the dish machine; checking equipment; retrieving trays from nursing units and patient areas; washing and returning service ware to storage; maintaining separation between clean and dirty areas; and assisting with special functions. The employee reports to the Kitchen Manager and interacts with patients, hospital employees, patients’ family members, and the general public. The position uses PPE as appropriate and involves hazards including heavy lifting, wet floors, burns, cuts, and possible exposure to cleaning chemicals.
Requirements
- Ability to speak, read, and write, and to follow written and oral instructions.
- Ability to work cooperatively as part of a team.
- Ability to exercise time and task management.
- Ability to perform medium work: exert 20–50 pounds occasionally, 10–25 pounds frequently, or up to 10 pounds constantly.
- Wear appropriate PPE during job functions and complete initial and annual training to identify required PPE levels.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience working in a health care food service setting is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Operate the dish machine, including daily cleaning and weekly de-liming according to specifications.
- Wash dishes, pots, and other service ware and return clean items to appropriate storage areas.
- Maintain sanitation in the dish room, including separation of clean and dirty areas; sanitize dirty tray carts and use the soaking bin appropriately.
- Record and maintain sanitizer logs, and provide soap and sanitizer buckets for the prep area and dish room at specified times.
- Check and document temperatures according to protocol once during each meal service.
- Keep the work area clean and uncluttered.
- Verify that equipment is working properly and promptly communicate technical or functional issues through appropriate channels.
- Conduct hourly tray sweeps after peak meal times, retrieving trays from patient rooms and storage areas.
- Complete café food preparation as assigned and remove outdated food items when assigned.
- Assist with room-service ordering and tray setup; deliver patient meals as needed or instructed.
- Pause dish-room work to assist café customers when they enter.
- Complete daily, weekly, and monthly task checklists and daily coronavirus sanitizing tasks.
- Assist with meals on wheels, catering, special functions, and other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
