Food Service Worker

Banner Health; Sun City West (AZ); On-site; USD 19,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Banner Health in Sun City West, Arizona, seeks a dedicated Food Service Team Member to join the dietary and retail café team. You will support daily food service operations across multiple assignments, including food preparation, patient trayline service, retail cafe support, and facility cleaning and sanitation.

The role may involve delivering meals, nourishments, and tube feedings to patient units, assisting with catering or special events, and handling cash transactions as needed.

Qualifications

• Must be able to learn food handling regulations and pass certification tests as required.
• POS (cash register) when applicable.
• For Banner Staffing Services (BSS) team members, the food handlers' card is required with 30 days of hire.
• Employees working at Banner Behavioral Health Hospital must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment.

Responsibilities

• Sets up work station and prepares all assigned foods and nourishments in the correct quantities, following established procedures, portion control and food quality standards.
• Cleans and sanitizes dishes, flatware, trays, cups, glasses and cooking utensils; cleans and sanitizes designated equipment and kitchen areas, disposing of waste materials.
• Maintains par levels of foods and/or supplies, orders/restocks items, rotates stock and checks expiration dates.
• Checks and records food and equipment temperatures and reports discrepancies to the supervisor.
• May deliver meals, nourishments, late trays and/or tube feedings to units; may assist in catering or special events.
• May handle transactions at cash register and cafe.
• Interacts with staff, patients and families; follows procedures for cleaning chemicals and works with them safely.

Skills

Customer service

Food handling

Cash handling

Communication

Tools

POS (cash register)

Job description

Primary City/State: Sun City West, Arizona Department Name: Culinary & Nutrition-Hosp Work Shift: Varied Job Category: Facilities, Environmental Services, and Culinary A rewarding career that fits your life. Learn how Banner Health, a certified Great Place To Work®, prioritizes team members and strives to be the best place to work in health care. We are seeking a dedicated and service-oriented Food Service Team Member to join our dietary and retail café team. In this role, you will support daily food service operations across multiple assignments, including food preparation, patient trayline service, retail café support, and facility cleaning and sanitation. The role may also involve delivering meals, nourishments, and tube feedings to patient units, assisting with catering or special events, and handling cash register transactions as needed. The ideal candidate must be able to follow established procedures and guidelines — including safe handling of cleaning chemicals — work efficiently under regular supervision, and consistently deliver excellent customer service to patients, families, and hospital staff. Preferred candidates will have prior experience in hospital food service and/or room service operations.

Schedule Varied: 10:00am-6:30pm, 2:00pm-10:30pm, 4:00pm-12:30am- weekends are a must. Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center excels in providing extraordinary health care to residents of the northwest Valley of metro Phoenix and is recognized by U.S. News and World Report as one of Phoenix's Best Hospitals. With 391 licensed beds, the hospital provides a wide range of services, including acute medical and surgical services as well as intensive care, emergency and urgent care, inpatient/outpatient surgery, cardiac catheterization, neurology, orthopedics, oncology, urology, pulmonary, obstetrics and gynecology, outpatient diagnostic services, and adult behavioral services.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position works as a member of the food service team on one or more assignments in cleaning, food preparation, patient trayline or retail café. Provides service and assistance to patients, staff and other customers in accordance with established dietary and retail cafe policies and procedures.

CORE FUNCTIONS

• Sets up work station and prepares all assigned foods and nourishments in the correct quantities, following established procedures, portion control and food quality standards. Assures that food presentation continually meets standards.
• Cleans and sanitizes dishes, flatware, trays, cups, glasses and cooking utensils. Also cleans and sanitizes designated equipment and kitchen areas disposing of all waste materials. Monitors dish machine temperature.
• Maintains par levels of foods and/or supplies in assigned areas, orders and/or restocks items in accordance with established routines, rotates food stocks, checks expiration dates.
• Checks and records food and equipment temperatures according to defined procedures, and reports any discrepancies to the supervisor.
• May deliver meals, nourishments, late trays and/or tube feedings to units; return excess nourishments as requested. May also assist in catering or special event service.
• May handle transactions at cash register (if applicable) and/or cafe.
• This position interacts with other food service department personnel, hospital staff, patients and families. Requires the ability to follow a work routine with regular supervision, to work quickly and correctly while providing good customer service and maintaining sanitation standards. The work requires the ability to follow instructions and guidelines for the use of cleaning chemicals and be able to work in physical contact with them.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• This position requires the ability to learn and follow established policy and procedures, read and understand written and verbal instruction, to communicate effectively and to provide customer service.
• Must be able to learn food handling regulations and pass certification tests as required.
• POS (cash register) when applicable.
• For Banner Staffing Services (BSS) team members, the food handlers' card is required with 30 days of hire.
• For BSS team members in Tucson and Colorado, the food handlers' card is not required.
• Employees working at Banner Behavioral Health Hospital must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment.
• An Arizona Criminal History Affidavit must be signed upon hire.
• Employees working at Olive Branch Senior Center must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

EEO/Disabled/Veterans

Our organization supports a drug‑free work environment.

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