Food Service Attendant - Nutrition Services

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.

→ 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.

• High school diploma (or GED) strongly preferred.
• Ability to read and write required.
• Prior satisfactory work experience is desired.

• None