Food Service Associate - PT and FT Available

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Food Service Associate position may perform one or more functions including, but not limited to, building patient meal trays; preparing fruits and vegetables; preparing and serving hot and cold food items for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (in addition to grab-and-go items); delivering patient trays to assigned areas; serving retail customers; and dishwashing activities. The Food Service Worker must be knowledgeable about food items and respond to patient and customer inquiries with the correct information.

Responsibilities:

• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• Performs duties in one of the following department units:  Food Production, Cafeteria (Main or Cambridge), Doctor’s Lounge, Trayline, or Support Services. 
• Cross-trained to perform in one or more of the units and/or stations within the primary unit. 
• Maintains food/product/supply quality and safety following HACCP and department standards. 
• Operates, monitors, and cleans any equipment used to perform job duties following directions and unit standards.
• Maintains orderliness, safety, and sanitation of work and/or service area(s), according to unit standards and work station assignment.
• During periods of downtime in primary unit, assists in another unit according to assignment or at request of supervisor.  (Examples:  portioning and wrapping patient food items, serving on the Cafeteria hot line, loading or unloading the dish machine.)
• Duties according to assigned unit include (not an exhaustive list):
• Trayline, Support Service: Delivers and retrieves food carts for patient food service.
• Food Production:  Test and evaluate new recipes.
• Food Production, Trayline, Cafeteria:  Adjusts work hours to early or late to help with food production, patient meal service, or service in the Cafeteria.
• Dishwashing: Load and unload the dish machine.
• Demonstrates competence in the areas of critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, and technical skills.
• Demonstrates ability to provide care/service safely and efficiently to each patient.
• Assists with on-the-job training of new employees.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Required:

• Read, write and speak English
• Simple math

Preferred:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Prior food service experience
• Experience in a hospital or long-term care facility

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.