Food Service Worker

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Richmond (KY); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Maternity/paternity leave

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky seeks a Food Service Worker I to prepare and serve nutritious meals, support safe dining operations, and maintain quality nutrition care for patients and visitors. This full-time role focuses on cleanliness, food safety, and friendly service within the hospital dining area.

Responsibilities include cash handling, dishwashing, and delivering meals while adhering to dietary restrictions and hygiene standards.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED preferred; or 1–6 months related experience or equivalent education/experience.
• Food Handler’s Permit required by Madison County.

Responsibilities

• Maintain clean and sanitary conditions in all Food service areas.
• Serve and operate cash register in cafeteria.
• Dishwashing, pot washing, sanitation, cleaning and use of kitchen equipment.
• Assist in service and storage of food; provide high quality customer service in cafeteria.

Skills

Food handling

Cash handling

Sanitation

Customer service

Dishwashing

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Cash register

Job description

Summary Job Description

Food Services - Food Service Worker I FULL TIME - DAYS Objectives are to skillfully perform multiple tasks necessary to operate the Food and Nutrition Services/Dining Services Department to prepare and serve attractive, nutritious, satisfying meals and to provide quality nutrition care in a safe, sanitary, and cost-effective manner to patients, clients, and customers.

Job Description: Food Service Workers plays a crucial role in ensuring that patients receive appropriate and nutritious meals. In addition, a food service worker in a hospital setting contributes to the overall well-being of patients by preparing and delivering nutritious meals, adhering to dietary restrictions, and maintaining high standards of hygiene and safety.

This position performs a variety of cleaning tasks:

• Maintaining clean and sanitary conditions in all Food service area.
• Serve, and/or operate cash register in cafeteria.
• May include dishwashing, pot washing, general sanitation, cleaning, and use of kitchen equipment.
• May assist in the service and storage of food.
• This position performs general duties in the cafeteria area as required to insure high quality customer service.
• They have direct contact with both employees and visitors. Assists in providing quality food and an enjoyable dining experience for patients, guests, and staff.

Essential Qualifications

High school diploma or GED equivalent preferred; or 1 - 6 months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Food Handler’s Permit required by Madison County.

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

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

BaptistHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, genderidentity, 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.

BaptistHealth specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthenourteam.

Please note that BaptistHealthis a drug‑free workplace and employmentwith BaptistHealth is subject to postoffer, pre‑employment drug testing.

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 voicetoTDD, call 800.648.6057. ForTDDtovoice, call 800.648.6056.

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