Dietary - Patient Food Service Associate

Blanchard Valley Health System; Findlay (OH); On-site; USD 15,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Blanchard Valley Health System is seeking personnel for tray line and meal assembly, plus cleaning duties. The role emphasizes accurate tray preparation, patient meal delivery, sanitation, and careful record keeping.

The position requires teamwork, flexibility across weekdays, weekends, and holidays, and adherence to healthcare standards. It involves safety training and ongoing competency documentation within a hospital food service environment.

Qualifications

• Positive service-oriented interpersonal and communication skills required.
• Ability to work flexible schedule for weekdays, weekends, and holidays.
• Adheres to policies, standards, and guidelines set forth by Joint Commission, State of Ohio, Sodexo and BVHS.
• Ability to work well within a team environment; supports team goals and constructive feedback.
• Show flexibility and adaptability in meeting constraints and demands placed on services.

Responsibilities

• Food Assembly: Assembles and checks trays accurately according to guidelines.
• Delivers meal trays to patients according to procedures.
• Cleans and sanitizes workstation per regulatory agencies.
• Maintains accurate record keeping for food temperatures, equipment, and production logs.
• Initiates assignments promptly and works efficiently to meet deadlines.
• Attends monthly safety inservices and signs topics.
• Attends meetings monthly and completes documentation for inservices and competencies.

Skills

Positive service-oriented skills

Flexible schedule

Team collaboration

Policy adherence

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

The purpose of this position is to assist with tray line and meals along with cleaning of pots, pans, lids and patient trays.

Job Duties/Requirements

• Duty 1: Food Assembly- Assembles and checks trays accurately according to Room Service Guidelines and Standards. Measures and follows directions accurately. Meets goal of 98% accuracy on all tray checks.


• Duty 2: Patient Room Service: Delivers meal trays to patients according to tray passing procedures


• Duty 3: Sanitation and Cleaning- Cleans and sanitizes workstation in accordance to Sodexo, BVHS, and all other regulatory agencies


• Duty 4: Record Keeping- Maintain accurate record keeping for food temperatures, equipment, and production logs per established guidelines


• Duty 5: Productivity- Promptly initiates assignments and proceeds in an efficient and timely manner. Meets established deadlines


• Duty 6: Safety Focus- Attends monthly safety inservices and practices safety in the daily performance of tasks. Reads and signs monthly safety topics.


• Duty 7: Meeting Attendance- attends meetings on a monthly basis. Completes documentation related to inservices, mandatories, and competencies without prompting.

Required Qualifications

• Positive service-oriented interpersonal and communication skills required


• Ability to work flexible schedule for weekdays, weekends, and holidays


• Adheres to the policies, standards, and guidelines set forth by Joint Commission, State of Ohio, Sodexo and BVHS


• Ability to work well within a team environment; by accepting and offering honest constructive feedback; by supporting team goals and encouraging other team members.


• Show flexibility and adaptability in meeting constraints and demands placed on services

Preferred Qualifications

• High school graduate or GED equivalent.


• Previous kitchen experience

Physical Demands

This position requires a full range of body motion with intermittent activities in walking, lifting, bending, squatting and twisting. The associate will be required to stand for eight hours a day. The individual must be able to lift twenty to fifty pounds and reach work above the shoulders. The associate must have eye-hand coordination and finger dexterity. The individual must have corrected vision and hearing in the normal range. The position requires excellent verbal skills to perform daily tasks.

• BVHS