Food Service Worker

Baptist Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Paid Time Off

Bereavement Leave

PTO Sell Back

Emergency Financial Support

Retirement Plan with Company Match

Job summary

Baptist Health Lexington is hiring for a Room Service Associate within Food & Nutrition Services. You will be the primary contact between patients and the food service team, ensuring meals are delivered with care, accuracy, and compassion while assisting with menu selections and bedside tray delivery.

As a Food Service Worker, you will prepare, assemble and serve meals, maintain clean kitchen and dining areas, follow safety and sanitation standards, and support nourishments, events, and patient

Qualifications

• Food handlers card or Serv Safe certificate required within 6 months

Responsibilities

• Prepare, assemble, and serve meals for patients, visitors, and retail customers following standardized recipes and dietary guidelines.
• Wash, sanitize, and store dishes, cookware, utensils, and kitchen equipment.
• Transport patient meal carts and collect soiled trays from nursing units.
• Operate kitchen equipment safely and maintain a clean, organized work environment.
• Follow food safety, sanitation, infection prevention, and workplace safety standards.
• Assist with nourishments, special events, and other food service needs as assigned.
• Support quality service by minimizing food waste and promoting patient satisfaction.
• Perform routine and deep cleaning of kitchen areas, including dishwashing equipment and waste disposal areas.

Job description

Summary Job Description

The Food & Nutrition Services team at Baptist Health Lexington plays an important role in supporting patient health and comfort through high-quality meal service. Room Service Associates serve as the primary contact between patients and the food service department, ensuring that every meal is delivered with care, compassion, and accuracy. Whether assisting patients with menu selections or delivering trays to the bedside, this role is key to creating a positive patient experience. The Food Service Worker prepares and serves meals, assembles patient trays, maintains clean kitchen and dining areas, and supports safe food handling. This role follows all food safety, sanitation, and hospital policies while providing excellent service to patients, visitors, and staff.

Job Description

• Prepare, assemble, and serve meals for patients, visitors, and retail customers following standardized recipes and dietary guidelines.
• Wash, sanitize, and store dishes, cookware, utensils, and kitchen equipment.
• Transport patient meal carts and collect soiled trays from nursing units.
• Operate kitchen equipment safely and maintain a clean, organized work environment.
• Follow food safety, sanitation, infection prevention, and workplace safety standards.
• Assist with nourishments, special events, and other food service needs as assigned.
• Support quality service by minimizing food waste and promoting patient satisfaction.
• Perform routine and deep cleaning of kitchen areas, including dishwashing equipment and waste disposal areas.

Requirements

Food Handlers card or Serv Safe certificate is required within 6 months

Benefits

• Full-Time 32 weekly hours (0.8 FTE) - 40 weekly hours (1.0 FTE)
• Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
• Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
• Retirement with Company Match

About Baptist Health

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.