Food Service Worker

Food Service Worker

As a Food Service Worker, you will play a crucial role in assembling and delivering meal trays for patients, ensuring their dietary needs and preferences are met. This role involves working in a refrigerated environment and requires attention to detail and excellent customer service skills.

Responsibilities

• Assemble tray carts of patient lunch and dinner meal trays based on patient selections and diet orders.
• Customize patient meal trays by adding requested drinks, desserts, and rolls before delivery.
• Set up patient food service stations for breakfast trays and assist in their assembly.
• Deliver meal trays and snacks to patients, replace missing items, and offer alternative selections for regular diets.
• Communicate with the Hospitality Service Office for patients on restricted diets.
• Refill beverages and condiments from the hospitality cart.
• Inform nursing staff of refused, missing, or undelivered trays and document food and liquid intake for selected patients.
• Retrieve meal trays from patient rooms, ensure no personal items are left, and prepare dishes for washing.
• Deliver menus, explain the menu process to patients, assist with menu selection, and ensure every patient is contacted.
• Check for new admissions or diet changes, deliver menus and diet awareness cards, and return completed menus.
• Deliver NOW trays, discharged trays, guest trays, and isolation trays, obtaining nursing staff sign-off.
• Inventory and stock hospitality carts and baskets, and deliver bulk nourishments as requested.
• Provide clerical support to the Hospitality Service Office, answer telephones, and follow up on requests.
• Produce standard computer reports, including meal tallies and diet orders, and enter patient selections.

Essential Skills

• Experience in food service, tray line, and food preparation.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Ability to follow recipes and ensure quality food preparation.
• Proficiency in using computer systems for reporting and order entry.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience as a cook, prep cook, or line cook.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Why Work Here?

This position offers a contract-to-hire opportunity with a major DC hospital, providing a chance for permanent employment and access to hospital benefits. There are opportunities for raises based on excellent attendance and performance.

Work Environment

The role requires flexibility to work 1st and 2nd shifts, with start times ranging from 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM and end times from 1 PM to 9 PM.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Washington, District of Columbia.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $18.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Washington,DC.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 1, 2025.