Food Service Worker

Beth Israel Lahey Health; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health is seeking a food services team member to perform tray setup, delivery, and related kitchen duties in the main kitchen and patient areas.

The role involves portions, stocking, tray transport, and helping maintain a clean, organized work area while following hospital protocols and safety guidelines.

Qualifications

• Ability to read English and comprehend and follow verbal and some written instructions.
• Ability to read and write at level three as documented on Invest, the hospital's Employee Learning Laboratory software.
• Communication skills are relevant to delivering patient trays and for all contacts in the hospital.

Responsibilities

• Passes menus to patients according to name and room number and maintains a positive image.
• Portions food for tray line.
• Stocks and restocks tray line stations with food supplies.
• Delivers trays to patients and loads meal trucks as needed.
• Prepares and delivers between-meal nourishments and tube feedings when required.
• Maintains par stock inventories for nursing units.

Skills

Reading English

Written English

Communication skills

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you’re not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

A variety of food services duties in the main kitchen are performed including tray set up and delivery. Other duties as assigned are also performed.

Job Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

• Passes menus to appropriate patients according to name and room number, and presents a positive image to the customer.
• Portions food for tray line.
• Stocks and restocks tray line stations with food supplies.
• Assists in loading trays onto meal trucks.
• Prepares and delivers patient between-meal nourishments for Mount Auburn Hospital and necessary tube feedings.
• Inventories par stock for specifically designated nursing units.
• Delivers late trays to patients.
• Retrieves trays from patient care area.
• Cleans and sanitizes assigned work area.
• Scrapes dishes and loads dishes and trays into dishwasher.
• Resets tray line for next meal.
• Works continuously to improve the total quality of the department and other departments within the institution.
• Works under the direction of the lead diet aide and food services supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to read English and comprehend and follow verbal and some written instructions.
• Ability to read and write at level three as documented on "Invest," the hospital's Employee Learning Laboratory software.
• Communication skills are relevant to delivering patient trays and for all contacts in the hospital.

Physical Requirements & Environment

• Thirty-three percent of the time is spent in the dish room scraping trays.
• Noise levels and steam cause high temperatures.
• Damp or wet floors.
• Long periods of time standing.

Pay Range

$17.00 - $22.88

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled