This position is scheduled 12 hours per week. Shifts are M-F from 4-8:30p. Rotating weekend and holiday shifts are required.
Nutrition Services provides food service to medical campus patients, employees and visitors, and other people in the community through catering functions. Services provided include meal preparation and room service, nutrition screening and assessment, periodic reassessment of the effects of nutritional therapy, education of patients and families, discharge planning, and community nutrition education.
As a Food Service Worker, you will have the ability to work in multiple areas of the kitchen. In order to gain experience and orientate to the department, all Food Service Workers begin in the dishroom. The dishroom involves pre-scraping dishes, feeding and unloading the dish machine and sorting clean dishware. Manual warewashing duties can also be assigned. After experience is gained, you have the ability to cross-train in other duties, while still maintaining knowledge of dishroom procedures.
Other duties may include preparing, assembling and displaying food for patients, Meals-On-Wheels and other services. Food preparation includes cold food preparation (i.e. puddings, gelatins, sandwiches), brewing coffee, preparing toast. Periodic use of the hot food production equipment may be involved. Assembling duties include assembling food trays, delivering food carts to various locations in the hospital, or setting up and maintaining spreads at catered events. Displaying duties may involved packaging and stocking food for kitchen use or cafeteria services.
ADDITIONAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Assists with receiving and storing food deliveries and stocking food and supplies as assigned.
- Follows food rotation procedures, and properly stores, and labels leftover foods.
- Attends department meetings and required inservices.
- Some high school required, high school diploma or GED preferred
- Food service experience preferred
