Food Service Aide, Food Services, 24-Hour, 8:00am - 2:30pm, Tuesday through Friday

• Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly courteous and respectful manner.
• Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance then finds someone who can.
• Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness.Maintains a clean and safe hospital.
• Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
• Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients visitors and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort and minimize risk and injury.
• Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
• Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy
• Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year.
• Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner.
• All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene.
• Works together with departmental teams.
• Maintains a clean and comfortable environment for patients and visitors.
• Removes or arranges for removal of safety hazards from environment immediately to prevent potential safety hazards from occurring.
• Prioritizes work based on the changing needs of the customers.
• Keeps equipment in clean and working condition at all times.
• Ensures necessary materials and supplies are on hand to complete daily assignments.
• Portions desserts stocks refrigerators with milk juices desserts beverages and condiments as well as brews coffee and stock lines with disposables.
• Prepares sandwiches according to patient menu choices.
• Places cold food beverages condiments and utensils on the trays.
• Portions hot food onto plates places sandwiches and plate garnish on trays.
• Unsets food carts clears cafeteria conveyor belt loads dishes glasses and flatware into racks and feeds them into the dish machine as well as unloads clean dishes glasses and flatware from racks and returns them to service.
• Records dish machine wash and rinse temperatures on the posted wall chart at each meal and reports improper temperatures to the supervisor.
• Ensures floor stock and transfers are delivered to patient care units and other departments according to par levels or order forms and ensures late trays are delivered to patient care units and outpatient areas as ordered.
• Ensures celebration meals are setup and delivered to the Obstetrics Department as requested.
• Ensures worktables shelving and storage cabinets are cleaned and sanitized according to the posted schedule so inspections by DPH DMH JCAHO and the local Board of Health are without violations or deficiencies.
• Ensures dish room tables work sinks and utility carts are cleaned after being used so inspections by DPH DMH JCAHO and the local Board of Health are without violations or deficiencies.

• Prior healthcare food service or restaurant experience desirable

• Must be able to follow written instruction
• Capable of working in a busy environment
• Knowledge of weights measurements and basic math

Heywood Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status.