Nutrition Assistant I

CommonSpirit Health•Silverdale, WA

About The Position

The Nutrition Assistant helps deliver high-quality, safe, and efficient food services to patients and staff. The role includes preparing and delivering meal trays, assisting with food preparation, maintaining cleanliness, complying with food-safety requirements, and interacting with patients about dietary needs. Success requires attention to detail, food-safety knowledge, and strong customer service. The Nutrition Assistant follows healthcare foodservice standards, regulations, guidelines, and procedures, including monitoring food temperatures during cooking, holding, and storage; preventing cross-contamination; and following personal hygiene requirements. The role also involves properly labeling food products and storing food, equipment, and machinery according to regulations and facility guidelines. Food is prepared and served in accordance with menus and dietary requirements, using required kitchen utensils and equipment. The assistant maintains knowledge of recipe ingredients to answer questions or requests about food allergies and follows organizational standards for a high-quality patient and customer experience. Proper meal portions and appealing presentation are expected. Depending on assignment, duties may include cashiering; retail-area service; assembling, delivering, and retrieving patient trays; cold-food preparation; utility work such as dishwashing, washing pots and pans, and maintaining equipment; catering and catered-food delivery or pickup; inventory support; and general cleaning of equipment and work areas, including mopping, sweeping, and emptying trash cans.

Requirements

One year of food service or customer service experience.
Washington Food Handler Permit within 30 days.

Nice To Haves

High school graduate in General Studies or a high school GED in General Studies, upon hire.
Cashier experience.

Responsibilities

Prepare and deliver meal trays and assist with food preparation.
Maintain cleanliness and comply with food-safety requirements.
Interact with patients regarding dietary needs.
Monitor and maintain food temperatures during cooking, holding, and storage.
Prevent food cross-contamination and follow personal hygiene requirements.
Label food products properly and store food, equipment, and machinery according to regulations and facility guidelines.
Prepare and serve food according to menus and 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 patient and customer experience.
Ensure proper meal portioning and appealing presentation.
Depending on assignment, perform cashiering, retail service, patient tray assembly and delivery or retrieval, cold-food preparation, utility work, catering duties, inventory support, or general cleaning.