Dietary Aide - Mount Sinai Brooklyn - 0.5 fte part-time day

Mount Sinai Medical Center; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking dedicated food service staff to prepare and serve meals to patients. This role involves ensuring cleanliness and safety in food handling, as well as maintaining a pleasant dining experience for patients. Ideal candidates will possess strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to patient satisfaction. Join a team that values professionalism and courtesy, where your contributions will make a significant impact on patient care and experience. If you're detail-oriented and ready to work in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• High school diploma required; computer proficiency and interpersonal skills are essential.
• Experience in food service and safe food handling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and serve food trays, ensuring patient satisfaction during meal times.
• Perform cleaning duties, handle food production, and manage food deliveries.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Detail-oriented

Written Communication

Verbal Communication

Safe Food Handling

Service Recovery

Education

High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma

Tools

Bedside Menu Entry System

Job description

Description

Prepare and serve patient food trays. Handles food production and preparing for special functions. Handles dishwashing and sanitation.

Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Perform duties as assigned: Tasks related to cleaning of work areas, washing of cooking equipment/utensils, sweeping/mopping, garbage removal, deliveries and collections of food truck, cashiering, etc. Lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling of relatively heavy equipment and supplies. Working conditions include exposure to heat, steam, hot liquids, and temperature changes. Work in assigned areas including dish room, tray assembly, cold/hot food prep, cafeteria, sanitation.
• Assignments may require use of electronic devices, order taking, preparing menus for production, assembling trays, logging requests, entering patient meal preferences by using bedside menu entry system hand-held device.
• Delivery of trays, retrieval of soiled trays, answering pages, remaining available to patients at meal times to ensure patient satisfaction, maintaining a safe, clean, and functional work environment.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• HS Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma.
• Computer proficiency, interpersonal skills, ability to perform service recovery necessary to effectively interact with patients and staff, ability to walk to assigned nursing units several times per day.
• Previous hospital Food Service menu processing is a plus.
• Detail-oriented, with written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in Safe Food Handling.
• Focus on Hospital’s commitment to patient satisfaction and ability to enhance patient experience.
• Professional appearance and courteous manner.
• Must have the ability to transport food items and be able to walk and stand for long periods of time.

Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $23.7204 - $25.2345 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentives, differential pay, or other forms of compensation or benefits.