Work Shift

Evening Shift

Scheduled Weekly Hours

20

Summary

This position supports Mercy's philosophy of patient centered care by serving fresh, nutritious food in a caring manner to patients, family and staff. Responsible for portioning, dishing and serving of food items for patient meals in an attractive, accurate and sanitary manner. Properly cleans and sanitizes dishes, maintains a safe work environment and adheres to regulatory guidelines.

Job Description

Job Duties/Essential Functions

Job Duties
- Demonstrates knowledge and support of the patient improvement scores. Articulate Press Ganey scores.
- Performs tasks of patient tray set up and delivery, ware washing, and cleaning to meet regulatory requirements.
- Monitors quality of food products and service, including temperatures. Take corrective action when needed.
- Operates equipment, demonstrate portion control and meet regulatory agency requirements.
- Prepares special nourishment and tube feeding orders and deliver to correct units in an accurate manner.
- Communicates effectively to staff in other areas through use of voceras, phone or computer.
- Delivers and retrieves patient trays within the specified times.
- Makes food or item substitutions when necessary.
- Prioritizes tasks to be ready for meal service at specified time.
- Monitors dish machine temperature and reports deficiencies. Ensures dishes are clean, sanitized and dry; returns to appropriate area of the kitchen.
Follows Mercy's safety guidelines, carries out job-specific safety duties and responsibilities, and promptly reports any unsafe conditions, situations, incidents and injuries.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Must be able to utilize dietary guidelines for patient tray setup.
Ability to perform duties within the time constraints of meal service.
Must be able to perform job requirements with minimal supervision.
Effective verbal communication and excellent interpersonal skills.
Demonstrate quality customer service.
Demonstrate competency in specific skills as identified in the position core competency and annual competency.
Proficiently operate and maintain equipment associated with their job.

Professional Experience

One or more years of previous food service experience preferred.

Education

High School diploma or equivalent preferred.

Licensure, Certification, Registration

None

Physical Activity Requirements

Constant = 67-100% of workday

Reaching
Standing
Walking
Hearing
Repetitive motion

Frequent = 34-66% of workday

Lifting
Use of fingers
Talking
Stooping
Pushing
Pulling
Grasping
Feeling
Handling

Occasional = 33% or less of workday

Balancing
Kneeling
Crouching
Climbing
Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. Sitting: to assume a position in which the weight is largely supported by the buttocks, usually with the body vertical and the thighs horizontal. Standing: Maintaining an upright position. Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks. Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. Use of Fingers: writing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling. Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word—those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal range; ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when auscultating and percussing. Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motion) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. Balancing: Maintaining equilibrium to prevent falling when assisting patients with activity. Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest or kneel. Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine. Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward. Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion. Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm. Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips and palms. Climbing: Stairs, stools, ramps. Handling: Working primarily with the whole hand while scouring, dusting, obtaining supplies and handling equipment.

Physical Demand Requirements

Medium: Exert 20-50 lbs. of force occasionally and/or 10-15 lbs. of force frequently

Visual Acuity

Work requires close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Ability to read pertinent printed material and distinguish colors.
Ability to accurately read measurements on patient related equipment— some examples include thermometers, mechanical gauges, glucometers, IV pumps, and computer monitor displays.
Ability to read management reports or other pertinent printed material.
Normal visual acuity required to maintain accuracy and neatness of work.
Preparing and reading written documentation, use of computer.
Peripheral vision.
Reading menu, production guide, recipes, labels.
Calculating recipes and amounts of food to requisition.
Using proper measuring tools for portion control.

Intellectual/Emotional Requirements

Adaptability to performing under stress when confronted with emergent, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or situation in which working speed and sustained attention are make-or-break aspects of the job.
Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another without loss of efficiency or composure.
Ability to maintain both a high standard of courtesy and cooperation in dealing with co-workers, patients and visitors and satisfactory job performance despite the stress of a hospital work environment.
Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control or planning of an activity.
Adaptability to situations requiring the precise attainment of set limits, tolerances or standards.
Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to interact with the patient population of infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric.
Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, or unusual situations.
Ability to influence people in their opinions, attitudes or judgments about ideas or things.
Ability to make generalizations, evaluations or decisions based on measurable or verifiable criteria, i.e., patient assessment and/or equipment performance.
Adaptability to performing repetitive work or to performing continuously the same work, according to set procedures sequence or pace.
Adaptability to dealing with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
Able to communicate with people regarding giving and receiving of instructions.
Adaptability to changing priorities.
Adaptability to fluctuate between priorities on a daily basis, i.e. answering the phone, pulling charts, filing charts, copying charts and helping answer questions for ancillary staff.

Pay Rate Type

Hourly

Mercy is an independent, community-based organization supporting the Cedar Rapids area for over 120 years.

Mercy is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion and therefore evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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