Food Service Worker - Hospital

Position Summary:

The Food Service Worker position helps prepare and serve nutritious and appetizing meals, drinks, snacks, and desserts to provide a healthy and positive dining experience to residents and their guests. The role performs routine food service tasks under general supervision or instructions in a food production and/or customer service area and washes and cleans equipment as assigned.

Position Responsibilities:

• Transports food or supplies to serving areas; ensures that areas are properly set up; assembles and replenishes food, supplies, and equipment as required; ensures proper temperature of food in steam tables and correct counter display; stock halls, takes orders, portions, and serves food to customers; records portions served according to procedure; removes, covers, wraps, labels, stores, rotates, and discards food and condiments as directed.
• Clears soiled dishes and refuse from trays; scrapes refuse into garbage containers; loads trays and soiled dishes on conveyers, racks, and carts; removes and disposes of trash; sets up and operates dishwasher.
• Cleans assigned area following proper sanitary procedures, to include equipment, counters, work and dining tables, chairs, refrigerators, utensils, and dispensers; sweeps and mops floors.
• Ensures all supplies, materials, and equipment are available in assigned work areas for proper performance of duties; maintains replenishment as necessary; prepares supplies and materials as required; reports equipment malfunctions; reports need to repair equipment, furniture, building, and fixtures.
• Perform other duties as requested.

Position Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Six months of food service preferred.
• Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail required

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Ability to read and follow instructions.
• Understanding of proper sanitation procedures.
• Ability to operate various cooking equipment (and meet state age requirement for operating equipment as warranted).
• Self-starter with excellent interpersonal communication skills.