Food Service Worker

Food Service Worker – Atmore, AL

Hourly Rate: $11.00 – $12.00

Job Type: Full-time

The Food Service Worker provides food preparation and delivery services to include a variety of specialized duties related to the receipt, interpretation, and follow-through of patient diet orders. Responsible for the delivery and collection of trays to and from patients, ensuring nutrition care diet orders are provided to patients.

• Acts as a liaison between the patient and the kitchen, communicating all patient food needs to the appropriate area of the department.
• Assists clinical staff in ensuring all patient basic nutrition care needs are met.
• Maintains cleanliness of the kitchen and other assigned food and nutrition areas.
• Receives cash from customers as payment for goods or services and performs retail café duties ensuring service and merchandising standards.
• Provides customers with prompt service, quality beverages and products, and contributes to a friendly, upbeat, and clean atmosphere.
• Maintains friendly, efficient attitude towards customers, coworkers, patients, and visitors.
• Sets up and maintains assigned work area in a neat, clean, and orderly manner to facilitate efficiency and ensure food safety.
• Prepares beverages and food items to standard.
• Performs cleaning tasks in accordance with the duty rosters and cleaning standards and works as a store team member.
• Delivers patient trays during meal service.
• Delivers nourishments and/or snacks to patients as ordered by physician/dietitian in a timely manner.
• Visits patients to introduce the services of the Food and Nutrition Services Department and may obtain food preferences/dislikes from patient and/or family members.
• Inventories and re-stocks pantries, refrigerator, and freezers on assigned unit(s), maintaining temperature logs for unit refrigerators and freezers.
• Follows all cash handling procedures and policies.
• Cleans tables, counters and various types of retail and kitchen equipment and sweeps and mops floors.
• Welcomes and connects with every customer.
• Records all appropriate meal information for volunteers, employees, and physicians and submits all information to the designated person at the end of each shift.
• Operates cash register by keying the correct items and ensuring the correct tender is collected.

• Two years’ experience preferred in a healthcare food service setting.
• Ability to communicate (both verbal and written) effectively.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed, but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to work well under time constraints.

Additional benefits include PTO, vacation time, holidays, medical insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), employee assistance program, and more.