Food Service Worker - Dietary Aide

Akron Children's; Akron (OH); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Akron Children’s is seeking a Food Service Worker to assemble patient meals, manage inventory, and support various kitchen operations. The role involves following recipes, sanitation, and HACCP documentation within an onsite hospital kitchen.

Typical schedule includes full-time shifts, with rotating weekends and varying start times to cover breakfast and midday service. Experience in hospital or institutional food service is preferred and ServSafe certification is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience in Food Service is preferred.
• Hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) knowledge is preferred.
• Experience in short order cooking and room service prep is preferred.
• Customer service experience is preferred.
• Proficiency with MS Office is required.
• ServSafe certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assembles patient meal trays and serves food per recipes.
• Cleans and sanitizes equipment and keeps work area neat.
• Delivers/assembles stock items and patient trays.
• Keeps logs and temperature records for HACCP.
• Prepares items for cafeteria, catering, and patients.
• Handles customer requests and concerns as able.
• Picks up dirty trays according to schedule.
• Inventories and stocks floors based on par levels and census.
• Notifies supervisor of repairs or equipment issues.
• Prepares food for all areas of the department, including meat, seafood, produce.
• Cleans produce and poultry; prepares sandwiches and fillings; assembles carts per sheets.
• Provides support to other departments to ensure operational efficiency.

Skills

Food service experience

HACCP knowledge

Short order cooking

Customer service

MS Office

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Full-time, 40 hours/week

Days schedule 6:30am-3pm or 8am-4:30pm; rotating weekends required

Summary

The Food Service Worker assembles ingredients for production of kitchen carts and patient meal trays and serves food according to portions on recipes, as well as inventory, stock, label, tray, and safety and sanitation duties.

Responsibilities

• 1. Assembles patient meal trays and serves food in retail according to portions on recipes.
• 2. Cleans and sanitizes all equipment, dishes, trays, and utensils and keeps work area neat.
• 3. Delivers/assembles stock items and patient trays.
• 4. Keeps logs, temperatures and records for HACCP.
• 5. Utilizes equipment and kitchen skills for preparation of items for cafeteria, catering, and patients.
• 6. Handles customer requests and concerns as able.
• 7. Picks up dirty trays according to schedule.
• 8. Inventories and stocks floors/requests based on par levels, census, and inventory forms.
• 9. Notifies supervisor of any needed repairs or issues with equipment and communicates customer
• 10. issues/concerns to supervisor.
• 11. Prepares food for all areas of Department including meat, seafood, produce.
• 12. Cleans produce and poultry; prepares sandwiches and fillings daily; assembles carts for production according to production sheets or labels.
• 13. Fill in to support other Support Services areas as needed to ensure operational efficiency.

Other information

Technical Expertise

• 1. Experience in Food Service is preferred.
• 2. Experience in hazard analysis critical control point is preferred.
• 3. Experience in short order cooking, preparation for room service such as restaurants, other hospital room service experience is preferred.
• 4. Customer Service Experience in preferred.
• 5. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required.

Education and Experience

• 1. Education: None
• 2. Licensure: None
• 3. Certification: ServSafe is preferred.
• 4. Years of relevant experience: 2 years is preferred.
• 5. Years of supervisory experience: None

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000

Status: Onsite