Culinary Associate PRN

Catholic Medical Center; Manchester (NH); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Life insurance

Job summary

Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, NH is seeking a Culinary Associate to prepare meals, assemble trays, and support kitchen operations in a fast-paced hospital environment.

You will handle food preparation, serving, sanitation, and patient meal delivery, while training with experienced staff and adhering to safety standards and quality service expectations.

Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Experience: 3–6 months in food service, cash handling or customer service preferred.
• Licensure/Certification: None

Responsibilities

• Prepares and sets up tray assembly line or work stations and reviews orders.
• Prepares and serves food, loads trays, and handles grill/fryer duties.
• Performs dish room and sanitation tasks and ware washing.
• Trains and cross-trains new employees.
• Delivers meals to patients, staff, and visitors and manages inventory.

Skills

Food service experience

Cash handling

Customer service

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

Job Summary and Qualifications

Under the general direction of the Director and the direct supervision of the Food Service Supervisor and within established policies and procedures, the Culinary Associate will be expected to perform any of the following functions:

• Prepares and sets up tray assembly line station or work station; reviews food orders and assemble meal trays, serves food, load trays on carts and similar duties.
• Prepares and sets up Production or service area. Produces and/or serves food production items. Participates in cafeteria serving line by preparing for opening, serving food, making sandwiches, working the grill, fryer, griddle, and cleaning area. Prepares foods by slicing, dicing or chopping and other food production as directed. Participates in opening and closing responsibilities.
• Performs various dish room and sanitation tasks, removes all small wares from patient food carts and performs ware washing and sanitation procedures of all equipment and returns all cleaned items to the proper stations.
• Assists in training and cross training of new employees in job related area.
• Prepares patient/visitor/ staff meals trays, late trays and between meal nourishments. Delivers and retrieves the meals/trays via push carts or food trucks as needed or directed.
• Inventories, rotates, restocks, maintains appropriate par levels and organizes work area/station. Evaluates waste and usage in a cost effective manner.
• Reviews menu or food/stock orders and assembles food and supplies as needed.
• Responds to customer or patient food orders and prepares food for delivery to customer.
• Prepares special request items and drinks. Utilizes a blender to make various drinks and proper thickness.

What qualifications you will need:

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Experience: Three to six months food service, cash handling or customer service experience preferred.
• Licensure/Certification: None

Benefits

Catholic Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Shape the future of healthcare at Catholic Medical Center

Located in Manchester, NH, Catholic Medical Center is a 330-bed acute care hospital and Level III Trauma Center serving southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. Home to the nationally recognized New England Heart & Vascular Institute and The Mom’s Place—an innovative birthing center that pioneered couplet care,we’re proud to lead in both advanced medicine and compassionate service.

As part of HCA Healthcare’s statewide network of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester hospitals, three freestanding ERs, and over 70 care sites, you’ll join nearly 5,000 colleagues across New Hampshire who are committed to excellence, collaboration, and making a difference every day. At Catholic Medical Center, your work has purpose—and your potential has no limits.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.