Food Service Assistant

Mercyhealth; Harvard (IL); On-site; USD 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking kitchen staff to perform essential duties in a fast-paced environment. This role involves preparing and serving food, maintaining cleanliness, and providing excellent customer service to patients and cafeteria customers. Candidates should possess a high school diploma and have the ability to handle physical demands of the job. Mercyhealth offers a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for career advancement.

Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Competitive Compensation

Paid Time Off

Career Advancement

Employee Wellbeing Programs

Additional Employee Benefits

Qualifications

• Ability to stand and walk for long periods.
• Good manual dexterity to operate kitchen equipment.
• Ability to lift 25 to 50 pounds frequently.

Responsibilities

• Reads and delivers patient tray orders.
• Operates dish machine and cleans kitchen equipment.
• Serves cafeteria customers and maintains cleanliness.

Skills

Customer Service

Sanitation

Manual Dexterity

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Performs daily kitchen / cafeteria duties to provide a safe clean and sanitized environment for our patients, residents, customers, and partners with quality service in mind. Dishes and assembles food items. Sets up, delivers and picks up patient trays. Operates dish machine. Washes pots & pans. Operates, cleans and sanitizes other kitchen equipment including cooking equipment as needed. Replenishes stock. Maintains a clean work area. Performs cashier duties as needed. Has the ability to work in a fast paced environment. Performs other duties as assigned. May work alternate shifts, weekends and holidays. May be assigned overtime during peak periods. Maintains flexibility in scheduling and work/area assignments according to department and system needs.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Reads patient tray ticket orders and places items on trays.
• Delivers / serves patient trays, snack and supplements Assist patients with opening any items
• Collects patient trays from room, stacks dirty dishes on cart and returns cart to kitchen
• Operates dish machine
• Performs daily / weekly cleaning tasks
• Washes and sanitizes dishes, pots and pans, and kitchen equipment
• Maybe required to filter hot oil with mesh strainer and/or change oil in fryers
• Serves cafeteria customers
• Operates cash register
• Portions food items as directed
• Replenishes stock with proper rotation
• Takes and records food temperatures
• Takes and records equipment temperatures
• Cleans and sanitizes work area, tables, and cabinets
• Collects and places garbage and trash in designated containers
• Follows scripting when delivering patient trays
• Adheres to department safety and sanitation regulations
• Use protective barriers (gloves, apron, and proper hair coverings)
• Excellent customer service skills needed when delivering patient trays

Education and Experience

High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

Special Physical Demands

The Special Physical Demands are considered Essential Job Function of the position with or without accommodations.This is considered heavy work. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is constantly required to stand and walk. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb and balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl; taste and smell. The employee must exert 25 to 50 pounds frequently and 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally. Good manual dexterity to operate kitchen equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include frequent close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision. Occasional depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits

Mercyhealth offers a generous total rewards package to eligible employees including, but not limited to:

· Comprehensive Benefits Package: Mercyhealth offers a retirement plan with competitive matching contribution, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options, life and disability coverage, access to flexible spending plans, and a variety of other discounted voluntary benefit options.

· Competitive Compensation: Mercyhealth offers market competitive rates of pay and participates in various shift differential and special pay incentive programs.

· Paid Time Off: Mercyhealth offers a generous paid time off plan, which increases with milestone anniversaries, to allow employees the opportunity for a great work-life balance.

· Career Advancement: Mercyhealth offers a number of educational assistance programs and career ladders to support employees in their educational journey and advancement within Mercyhealth.

· Employee Wellbeing: Mercyhealth has a focus on wellbeing for employees across the organization and offers a number of tools and resources, such as an employer-sponsored health risk assessment and a Wellbeing mobile application, to assist employees on their wellbeing journey.

· Additional Benefits: Mercyhealth employees have access to our internal and external employee assistance programs, employee-only discount packages, paid parental and caregiver leaves, on-demand pay, special payment programs for patient services, and financial education to help with retirement planning.