Food Prep Worker

National Jewish Health is seeking a dependable and team-oriented Food Prep Worker to join the Food & Nutrition Services team. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by helping provide nutritious meals to patients, staff, visitors and students throughout the National Jewish Health campus. Unlike many food service positions, this role offers a consistent Monday through Friday schedule from 5:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., supporting excellent work-life balance with evenings and weekends off.

National Jewish Health is the nation's leading respiratory hospital, recognized for excellence in patient care, research and education. As part of the Food & Nutrition Services team, the Food Prep Worker plays an important role in supporting daily operations and delivering high-quality meal service across the organization. This position offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment where reliability, teamwork and service excellence make a meaningful contribution to the patient and employee experience.

Performs food preparation functions in the kitchen and cafeteria as assigned to provide meals and nourishment for patients, staff and visitors.

• Prepares and assembles food items for patients, cafeteria guests, catering events and school meal programs
• Supports patient room service and cafeteria operations through food and beverage preparation
• Assists with serving breakfast and hot food items as needed
• Sets up and maintains salad bars, dessert stations and other food service areas

• Performs basic cold food preparation for patients, cafeteria, school meals and catering functions.
• Prepares and assembles food items and supplies for patient room service, cafeteria food stations and beverages.
• Prepares and serves breakfast foods from the grill when intermediate, short term coverage is needed. Serves prepared hot food items from the steam table per customer request.
• Sets up the dessert counter, breakfast bar and salad bar daily.

• Performs as a back up to staff absences and vacancies, as necessary.

• Accountability:
  Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
• Adaptability:
  Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures.
• Attention to Detail:
  Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
• Collaboration/Teamwork:
  Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals; works with employees within and across his/her department to achieve shared goals; treats others with dignity and respect and maintains a friendly demeanor; values the contributions of others.
• Customer Focus:
  Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities, crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs.
• Energy:
  Consistently maintaining high levels of activity or productivity; operating with vigor, effectiveness, and determination over extended periods of time.
• Managing Work and Time Management:
  Effectively managing one’s time and…