Food Service Attendant - Nutrition Services

Overview

Prepares, assembles, serves, and delivers food, and performs sanitation activities in assigned areas: patient area for patient tray assembly and sanitation; patient tray delivery and menu collection; or the detail dining areas. May operate dishwasher or assists with washing/sterilizing dishes. Performs cleaning and sanitizing duties.

Responsibilities

• Patient Tray Assembly and Sanitation:

• Plates food items and assembles patient meal trays. Assembles add-on sheet items and tube feeding items following proper procedures.

• Prepares food items for all areas, following standardized recipes and production methods. Prepares patient nourishment's and write-ins as tallied following proper production procedures.

• Ensures that area and equipment are maintained up to accepted standards and quality.

• Loads and operates dish washing equipment. Takes dish machine temperatures daily.

• Takes pot machine temperatures daily and pH level of sanitizer.

• Performs assigned cleaning functions, ensuring that areas and equipment are maintained up to accepted standards of quality.

• Operates floor washing machine

• Maintains and properly stocks all necessary food and supply items.

• Labels and dates all necessary food and supply items.

• Uses and mixes chemicals in a safe manner. Labels all secondary bottles.

• Patient Tray Delivery and Menu Collection:

• Assists with tray delivery and retrieval.

• Collects patient menus on assigned units.

• Assists patients with menu completion using hard copy menus or laptops.

• Performs inventory of food and supplies for assigned units. Assembles these supplies and delivers to the assigned unit.

• Takes temperatures of assigned refrigerators and freezers and documents as required

• Retail Dining Areas:

• Performs procedures in the retail areas according to all State and hospital guidelines, including serving, and/or portioning of food, preparing items to order, informing/directing customers as needed.

• Takes refrigeration temperatures, hot and cold food temperatures to assure proper storage and serving temperatures.

• Cleans assigned areas/equipment following institutional standards.

• Orders, collects and restocks food supplies in assigned areas.

• Displays and labels food items using menu boards and POS signage.

• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma (or GED) strongly preferred.

• Ability to read and write required.

• Prior satisfactory work experience is desired.

Required Licensure/Certifications

• None