Food Service Associate, Food & Nutrition/Elmhurst - Part time (23.5 Hours/Week)

NYC Health + Hospitals; New York (NY); On-site; USD 31,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a dedicated Food Service Associate to join their team. This part-time role involves obtaining meal orders from patients and ensuring their dietary needs are met. As a vital part of the food and nutrition department, you will engage with patients, deliver meals, and maintain high standards of service. If you are passionate about providing excellent customer service and want to contribute to the health and well-being of New Yorkers, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a diverse workforce committed to empowering every individual to live their healthiest life possible.

Benefits

Comprehensive Health Benefits

Retirement Savings Plans

Loan Forgiveness Programs

Paid Holidays and Vacation

College Tuition Discounts

Professional Development Opportunities

Employee Discounts Programs

Qualifications

• 6 months experience in hospitality or food service required.
• Completion of NYC Health + Hospitals food service training within 3 months.

Responsibilities

• Obtain patient meal orders and deliver meals to patients.
• Ensure dietary restrictions are followed and trays are accurate.
• Engage with patients to address any meal-related concerns.

Skills

Customer Service

Food Handling

Communication

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Handheld Tablet

CBORD

EPIC

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NYC Health + Hospitals provided pay range

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Base pay range

$30,815.00/yr - $30,815.00/yr

Marketing Statement

Empower Every New Yorker — Without Exception — to Live the Healthiest Life Possible

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States. We provide essential outpatient, inpatient and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year across the city’s five boroughs. Our large health system consists of ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services. Our diverse workforce is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Job Description

Purpose of Position:

Under supervision, with some latitude for independent initiative and judgment, is responsible for obtaining patient meal order selections and for the delivery of meals to patients, including the set-of up and loading of meal trays onto carts, inspection and transportation of meals to assigned rooms, collection and return of empty trays and/or food carts, and performance of other related tasks, as required.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Ensures handheld tablet is fully operational prior to visiting patients and obtaining meal order selections.
• Greets patients; discusses and obtains their menu selections for the next day’s meals, adhering to dietary restrictions (as applicable); and confirms and inputs patients’ choices at the bedside into a handheld tablet.
• Checks patients’ trays for allergens and special requests; proper reheating; and accuracy, ensuring all items on tray ticket are present; and adds hot beverages and additional items before service to patients, as needed.
• Makes additional rounds to ensure selections have been received from all patients, as appropriate.
• In adherence with meal time schedules and infection control guidelines, delivers meal trays via carts to assigned units, uses two patient identifiers and patient scripting when passing trays or food to patients, and collects soiled trays to return to the kitchen area for cleaning.
• Delivers nourishments and enteral feeding, and assembles and delivers late trays, as needed.
• Engages in service recovery to address patient complaints, whenever possible, including delivering additional items to patients, in keeping with their diet restrictions.
• Effectively communicates and collaborates with patients, and the interdisciplinary team to resolve any concerns regarding patients’ understanding of menu selections.
• Reviews diet orders and prepares a list of patients that were not seen and need to be visited by the next shift.
• Completes daily service satisfaction rounds, and enters results of service satisfaction rounds into a computer program, such as Experiencia or a similar system.
• Enters pertinent information obtained from patients into CBORD, EPIC, and/or other record systems, and periodically reviews patient menus, to ensure preferences, selections and allergens are reflected.
• Assists with the tabulation of statistics and prepares menu related reports, as requested by supervisors, managers or dietitians.
• Under supervision, assists with assimilation of new food service staff in the department, as needed.
• Assists with answering phones, processing changes in the computer system(s), and performing other related tasks, as needed.
  
  

This is a part time - 23.5 hour/week position; will include working weekends and holidays.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or its educational equivalent; and six (6) months of full-time satisfactory experience working in a hotel, restaurant, hospitality, customer service or food service; and
• Completion of an NYC Health + Hospitals food service training program within three (3) months of appointment.
  
  

Department Preferences

How To Apply

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NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
• Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
• Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
• College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
• Multiple employee discounts programs

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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