Food Service Assistant

Job Requirements

Overview: Performs daily kitchen/cafeteria duties to provide a safe clean and sanitized environment for our patients, residents, customers, and partners with quality service in mind. Dishes and assembles food items. Sets up, delivers and picks up patient trays. Operates dish machine. Washes pots & pans. Operates, cleans and sanitizes other kitchen equipment as needed. Replenishes stock. Maintains a clean work area. Performs cashier duties as needed. Has the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Performs other duties as assigned. May work alternate shifts, weekends and holidays. May be assigned overtime during peak periods. Maintains flexibility in scheduling and work/area assignments according to department and system needs.

Responsibilities: Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Reads patient tray ticket orders and places items on trays.
• Delivers/serves patient trays, snack and supplements
• Assists patients with opening any items
• Collects patient trays from room, stacks dirty dishes on cart and returns cart to kitchen
• Operates dish machine
• Performs daily/weekly cleaning tasks
• Washes and sanitizes dishes, pots and pans, and kitchen equipment
• Maybe required to filter hot oil with mesh strainer and/or change oil in fryers
• Serves cafeteria customers
• Operates cash register
• Portions food items as directed
• Replenishes stock with proper rotation
• Takes and records food temperatures
• Takes and records equipment temperatures
• Cleans and sanitizes work area, tables, and cabinets
• Collects and places garbage and trash in designated containers
• Follows scripting when delivering patient trays
• Adheres to department safety and sanitation regulations
• Use protective barriers (gloves, apron, and proper hair coverings)
• Excellent customer service skills needed when delivering patient trays

Education and Experience: High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

Special Physical Demands: The Special Physical Demands are considered Essential Job Function of the position with or without accommodations. This is considered heavy work. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is constantly required to stand and walk. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb and balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl; taste and smell. The employee must exert 25 to 50 pounds frequently and 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally. Good manual dexterity to operate kitchen equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include frequent close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision. Occasional depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits: Mercyhealth offers a generous total rewards...