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St. Elizabeth Healthcare; Edgewood (KY); On-site; USD 26,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage starting in 30 days

Generous paid time off

Retirement savings with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Edgewood, Kentucky, is seeking a Food Service Worker who will prepare food for patients and staff. This role involves ensuring food quality and adherence to safety and cleanliness standards while utilizing various cooking techniques.

Ideal candidates will have at least 12 months of food service preparation experience and a high school diploma or GED. Join us at St. Elizabeth and support our dedicated mission to provide quality care to the communities we serve.

Qualifications

• 12 months of experience in food service preparation.
• Ability to read with comprehension and follow written and verbal instructions.

Responsibilities

• Prepare food for patients, staff, and catered meals safely.
• Utilize cooking methods such as sautéing, grilling, and baking.
• Monitor equipment and maintain food safety standards.
• Clean and sanitize work areas.

Skills

General food preparation skills

Knife skills

Ability to follow safety protocols

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Overview

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Job Type Regular

Scheduled Hours 40

Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

Benefits That Support You

We invest in you — personally and professionally.

Enjoy

• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
• Retirement savings with employer match
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary

Prepares food for patients, staff, and catered meals in a safe and sanitary manner. Use standardized recipes, proper portioning, and frequent checking for quality standards. Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Job Description

• Preparation: Estimate amount to be served and obtain food from storage areas, convert recipes to yield appropriate quantity. Wash, peel, cut and prepare raw ingredients. Use proper knife skills for meats, produce and portion sizing. Set-up to station to meet service times. Demonstrate organization and ability to multi-task.
• Production: Utilize basic cooking skills such as sautéing, grilling, baking, steaming, poaching, microwaving and other techniques as required to produce recipes. Season and cook food according to recipes and/or experience, determine doneness using methods such as tasting, cooking time/temperature, or reading internal temperature with thermometer.
• Service: Read and prepare food orders in a timely and accurate manner. Portion, arrange and garnish food using proper utensils. Support team production to meet service needs. Maintain professionalism at all times, including busy periods and emergencies.
• Kitchen Safety: Monitor equipment for defects, damage or misuse and report maintenance needs to supervisors. Maintain equipment for safe and proper use to prevent injuries.
• Food Safety: Monitor temperatures of hot and cold food items, properly label, date, rotate, and store all food items according to policy. Handle ready to eat items applying knowledge of safe service to account for cross-contamination, food allergens, time/temperature sensitivity, and for serving a high risk population.
• Cleanliness: Maintain clean and sanitary work area by monitoring tables, shelves, drawers, cooking equipment, storage bins, cutting boards, refrigeration equipment, floors, walls, ceilings, trash bins, cardboard, side towels, oven mitts, station cleaning and sanitizing solutions.
• Quality: Compliance with all local, state, federal and medical center regulatory, safety, sanitation and security standards. Participate in performance improvement (PI) studies, assist with data collection and supports action plans.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education, Credentials, Licenses

• High school diploma or GED required

Specialized Knowledge

• Ability to read with comprehension and follow written and verbal instructions

Kind And Length Of Experience

• 12 months in food service preparation

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

Right Career. Right Here. If you\'re looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you\'ll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.