Food Courier - Part Time (Allentown Campus)

CO39 St. Lukes Hospital; Allentown (Lehigh County); On-site; USD 19,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke’s University Health Network is seeking a Food Courier responsible for delivering meals, managing patient menus, and ensuring accurate diets between hospital campuses. You will support meal service, transport food trays, and maintain timely delivery while upholding safety and quality standards.

Requirements include high school diploma or equivalent and a valid PA driver’s license. On‑the‑job training is provided, and the role involves physical activity and driving between campuses as

Qualifications

• Customer service and/or food service experience preferred, but not necessary.
• On job training will be provided.
• Must have and maintain a valid PA Driver’s License accepted by the Network insurance carrier and a good driving record.

Responsibilities

• Operates van lift gate to ensure carts are secure during the raising and lowering process.
• Safely loads/unloads patient tray carts and other supplies onto and off department van.
• Utilizes provided ratchet straps/bars to secure carts and supplies on the van.
• Safely drives between campuses adhering to policies and motor vehicle regulations.
• Transfers patient trays to Boost system for proper hot/cold boosting and loads onto delivery carts.
• Delivers/retrieves meal carts to Behavioral Health Unit and completes delivery log.
• Performs daily vehicle maintenance checks including fluids, tires, and cleaning.
• Prepares, sets, and serves all food ensuring proper temperatures and portion sizes.

Skills

Customer service

Food service

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

St. Luke's is proud of the skills, experience and compassion of its employees. The employees of St. Luke's are our most valuable asset! Individually and together, our employees are dedicated to satisfying the mission of our organization which is an unwavering commitment to excellence as we care for the sick and injured; educate physicians, nurses and other health care providers; and improve access to care in the communities we serve, regardless of a patient's ability to pay for health care.

SCHEDULE: Required to work every other weekend and holiday.

The Food Courier provides patients, visitors, and co-workers with outstanding customer service. Management of patient’s menus, accurate special diets, supplementary feedings and required between meal feedings. Seeks to obtain 100% patient selected menus. Promotes meal assistance to all patients on a daily basis; including meal selection, service, and retrieval. Delivers late trays, floor stock, nourishments, snacks, and supplements. Also is responsible for stocking the kitchens, picking up patient menus, and recording calorie counts and I & O’s. Transports food carts as needed. Provides transportation of meals/floor stocks/food to and from the Upper Bucks campus to the Quakertown campus.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Operates van lift gate to ensure carts are secure during the raising and lowering process.
• Safely loads/unloads patient tray carts and other supplies onto and off department van.
• Utilizes provided ratchet straps/bars and other equipment to properly secure patient carts, other mobile equipment and supplies on van to ensure minimal movement during transportation.
• Safely drives van between campuses while at all times adhering to departmental policies and motor vehicle regulations and driving laws.
• Transfers patient trays from food delivery carts to Boost system repositioning and/or assembling trays as required to ensure trays are loaded correctly into the Boost unit for proper hot/cold boosting.
• Activates the Boost unit in accordance with the current meal period.
• Completes Boost temperature log for each meal period.
• Removes trays from Boost Unit.
• Repositions tray components on tray for optimal presentation, places hot beverages on trays and loads onto patient delivery carts.
• Delivers/retrieves meal carts to Behavioral Health Unit and completes delivery log.
• Performs daily vehicle maintenance checks including fluids, tires, equipment and cleaning.
• Prepares, sets, and serves all food as directed ensuring proper temperatures and portion sizes.

PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS

• Walking for up to 7 hours per day, 3 hours at a time.
• Sitting up to 2 hours a day while driving.
• Standing up to 2 hours per day.
• Continuously uses hands, upper and lower back and legs, handling, twisting/turning.
• Frequently uses firm grasping.
• Uses upper extremities for continuously lifting (up to 30 lbs.) carrying (up to 10 lbs.) and frequently push and pull (50 to 150 lbs.).
• Frequent squatting and kneeling and occasional stooping, bending, crouching and reaching above shoulder level.
• Employee should be able to hear normal conversation and have general vision, far vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.
• Driving for up to 20 minutes at a time up to up to 2 hours per day; walking for up to 7 hours, 30 minutes at a time; and standing up to 1 ½ hours for 30 minutes at a time.

Employee should be able to hear normal conversation and have general vision, far vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. Driving for up to 20 minutes at a time up to up to 2 hours per day; walking for up to 7 hours, 30 minutes at a time; and standing up to 1 ½ hours for 30 minutes at a time. Uses upper extremities for continuously lifting (up to 30 lbs.) carrying (up to 10 lbs.) and frequently push and pull (50 to 150 lbs.). Frequent squatting and kneeling and occasional stooping, bending, crouching and reaching above shoulder level. Employee should be able to hear normal conversation and have general vision, far vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. Driving for up to 20 minutes at a time up to up to 2 hours per day; walking for up to 7 hours, 30 minutes at a time; and standing up to 1 ½ hours for 30 minutes at a time.

EDUCATION

High school or equivalent preferred.

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Customer service and/or food service experience preferred, but not necessary. On job training will be provided. Must have and maintain a valid PA Driver’s License accepted by the Network insurance carrier and a good driving record.

St. Luke's University Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 23,000 employees providing services at 16 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue in excess of $4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Premier 13 times total and eleven years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. In 2021, St. Luke’s was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally. St. Luke’s is the ONLY health care institution in the Lehigh Valley to be named a Top Workplace regionally repeating the exclusive honor for the third year in a row. Also, for the third straight year, St. Luke’s has been a Top Workplaces in the Philadelphia Region by the Philadelphia Inquirer, ranking 9th in the large employer category for 2025 and the only health care system in PA to receive this award. In 2025, St. Luke’s was recognized as a national Top Workplaces by USA Today, three years in a row, including the 3rd best health care system in the nation in 2023 and 2024. Lastly, in 2025, St. Luke’s was named a Top Workplace in New Jersey for the third year in a row.

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