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

Mount Sinai Medical Center; New York (NY); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider where you will prepare and serve food trays, ensuring patient satisfaction and safety. This role involves various responsibilities, including cleaning work areas, handling food production, and interacting with patients to enhance their dining experience. The organization is committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment, empowering employees to thrive and contribute to outstanding patient care. If you are detail-oriented and passionate about food service in a healthcare setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required; food handling experience preferred.
• Ability to interact effectively with patients and staff.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and serve patient food trays, ensuring cleanliness and safety.
• Assist with food production, dishwashing, and sanitation tasks.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Detail Oriented

Written Communication Skills

Verbal Communication Skills

Safe Food Handling

Service Recovery

Education

High School Diploma or GED

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 and 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, prepare menus for production, assemble trays, log requests, enter patient meal preference by using bedside menu entry system hand held device.
• Delivery of trays, retrieve soiled trays, answer pages, remain available to patients at meal times to ensure patient satisfaction, maintain 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 a plus.
• Detail oriented, 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 able to walk and stand for long periods of time.

Food handling experience preferred.

Employer Description

Strength through Unity and Inclusion

The Mount Sinai Health System is committed to fostering an environment where everyone can contribute to excellence. We share a common dedication to delivering outstanding patient care. When you join us, you become part of Mount Sinai’s unparalleled legacy of achievement, education, and innovation as we work together to transform healthcare. We encourage all team members to actively participate in creating a culture that ensures fair access to opportunities, promotes inclusive practices, and supports the success of every individual.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders are committed to fostering a workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We strive to create an environment where collaboration, fairness, and continuous learning drive positive change, improving the well-being of our staff, patients, and organization. Our leaders are expected to challenge outdated practices, promote a culture of respect, and work toward meaningful improvements that enhance patient care and workplace experiences. We are dedicated to building a supportive and welcoming environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and advance professionally. Explore this opportunity and be part of the next chapter in our history.

About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer, complying with all applicable federal civil rights laws. We do not discriminate, exclude, or treat individuals differently based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where all faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve feel respected and supported.

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.