Food Service Worker

Banner Health Corporate; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free uniforms (two pairs of shoes)

Food discount (20%)

Weekend shift differential

Night shift differential

Job summary

Banner Health is hiring a Food Service Worker to support culinary operations at Banner - University Medical Center South in Tucson. The role involves preparing, cooking, and serving meals, stocking supplies, and maintaining clean work stations to ensure safe, high-quality food for patients and staff.

You will work varied shifts (530a-2p, 1130am-8pm) with weekend requirements and shift differentials. Prior food service experience is preferred; uniforms are provided and discounts on food are

Qualifications

• Experience in food service operations and delivering customer service.
• Ability to learn food handling regulations and pass required certification tests.
• Strong teamwork and communication to support meal service and patient needs.

Responsibilities

• Set up work stations and prepare foods following portion control and quality standards.
• Clean and sanitize dishes, equipment, and kitchen areas; monitor dish machine temp.

Skills

Food service background

Customer service

Team player

Tools

POS (cash register)

Job description

Location and Department

Primary City/State: Tucson, Arizona

Department Name: Culinary & Nutrition-Hosp

Work Shift: Varied

Job Category

Facilities, Environmental Services, and Culinary

Job Overview

Great careers are built at Banner Health. We’re looking for the best and brightest to join our team that earned Great Place To Work Certification. If you have food service background, enjoy providing premier customer service and consider yourself a true team player, then this might be the ideal fit for you! The Food Service Worker position is essential to maintaining food service operations throughout the day. This role is responsible for preparing, cooking, and serving food items to ensure customers have access to fresh, safe, and high-quality meals. You will help to set up serving stations, wash dishes, pots, pans, and kitchen equipment, along with stocking and replenishing food, beverages, supplies, and condiments. At least 1 year of cooking experience preferred. This is a full time position and shifts generally run 530a-2p and 1130am-8pm and candidates must be available to work both shifts. Weekends are required along with rotating holidays. You will enjoy a full benefits package plus an additional $1/hour flat rate weekend shift differential and an additional 18% night shift differential for hours after 7pm (if applicable). And Banner offers free uniforms including two pair of shoes yearly, 20% discount on food! Top Pay, Excellent Benefits & Fantastic Growth Opportunity!

Banner - University Medical Center South is a comprehensive academic medical center that includes an Emergency department, a state-designated trauma center and a Behavioral Health Pavilion. We are an Arizona Department of Health Services-accredited Cardiac Receiving Center and a Nurses Improving Care for Health system Elders-designated senior-friendly hospital. The hospital is staffed by physicians who are full-time faculty of the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson and is managed by Banner Health under an operating agreement with Pima County. Our specialty services include inpatient and outpatient behavioral health, treatment and education for diabetes, innovative geriatrics care and comprehensive orthopedics.

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.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

EEO/Disabled/Veterans

Drug-Free Workplace

Banner Health supports a drug‑free work environment.

Our organization supports a drug‑free work environment.

Benefits

We are proud to offer a comprehensive benefit package for all benefit‑eligible positions. Please visit our Benefits Guide for more information.

Corporate Information

Banner Health is one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country and the leading nonprofit provider of hospital services in all the communities we serve. Throughout our network of hospitals, primary care health centers, research centers, labs, physician practices and more, our skilled and compassionate professionals use the latest technology to make health care easier, so life can be better.