Nutrition Assistant I

CommonSpirit Health•Long Beach, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Nutrition Assistant, you will assist in delivering high-quality, safe, and efficient food services to patients and staff at Dignity Health - St. Mary Medical Center. Your daily tasks will include preparing and delivering meal trays, assisting with food preparation, maintaining cleanliness, ensuring food safety compliance, and interacting with patients regarding their dietary needs. Success in this role requires meticulous attention to detail, strong food safety knowledge, and excellent customer service to contribute to a positive dining experience. You will be responsible for following healthcare foodservice industry standards, regulations, guidelines, and procedures, including monitoring and maintaining food temperatures during cooking, holding, and storage, preventing cross-contamination, and adhering to personal hygiene requirements. The role also involves proper labeling and storage of food products, equipment, and machinery according to regulations and facility guidelines. You will prepare and serve food within menu and dietary requirements using specified kitchen utensils and equipment, and maintain knowledge of recipe ingredients to address food allergy questions. Adherence to organizational standards for patient and customer experience, ensuring proper meal portioning and aesthetically pleasing presentation, is also key. Additional responsibilities may include cashiering, serving in the retail area, assembling, delivering, and retrieving patient trays, performing cold food preparation, utility assignments (such as dishwashing, washing pots & pans, and equipment maintenance), catering functions, supporting inventory maintenance, and general cleaning of equipment and work areas.

Requirements

High School Graduate or GED
Equivalent combination of education and experience

Responsibilities

Assist in delivering high-quality, safe, and efficient food services to patients and staff
Prepare and deliver meal trays
Assist with food preparation
Maintain cleanliness
Ensure food safety compliance
Interact with patients regarding dietary needs
Demonstrate meticulous attention to detail, strong food safety knowledge, and excellent customer service
Follow healthcare foodservice industry standards, regulations, guidelines and procedures
Monitor and maintain food temperatures during cooking, holding, and storage processes
Avoid cross-contamination of foods
Adhere to personal hygiene requirements
Maintain proper labeling of food products
Ensure storage of food equipment, and machinery per regulations & facility guidelines
Prepare and serve food within guidelines of menu & dietary requirements using required kitchen utensils and equipment
Maintain knowledge of recipe ingredients to respond to food allergy questions or requests
Follow organizational standards and guidelines for a high quality patient and customer experience
Ensure proper meal portioning and an aesthetically pleasing presentation
May be responsible for cashiering
May be responsible for serving in the retail area
May be responsible for assembling, delivering and retrieving patient trays
May be responsible for performing cold food prep
May be responsible for performing utility assignments (e.g., dishwashing, washing pots & pans, maintaining equipment)
May be responsible for performing catering functions and or delivering/picking up catered food
May be responsible for supporting inventory maintenance duties
May be responsible for performing general cleaning of equipment and work areas (e.g., mopping, sweeping, emptying trash cans, etc.)