Food Service Worker - Full Time

Amberwell Health; Hiawatha (KS); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Amberwell Health in Hiawatha, KS is seeking a dish room associate to clean and sanitize dishes, assist with meals on wheels, and support café operations. The role emphasizes sanitation, tray delivery, and teamwork in a hospital food service environment.

Shifts include day or night with a focus on accurate temperature logs, adherence to PPE, and helping with room service and catering as needed. Prior health care food service experience is preferred but not required.

Qualifications

• No formal education required.
• Experience in health care food service preferred but not required.
• Ability to follow written and oral instructions and work as a team.
• Demonstrated time and task management abilities.
• Physical: Medium work requiring lifting up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Operates dish machine and cleans to specifications.
• Washes dishes and returns items to storage areas.
• Maintains sanitizer and temperature logs as required.
• Assists with meals on wheels, tray delivery and café tasks.
• Supports room service and catering as needed.
• Completes daily/weekly task checklists and adheres to PPE protocols.

Skills

Time management

Teamwork

Written and verbal instructions

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: Amberwell Hiawatha - Hiawatha, KS 66434Position Type: Full TimeEducation Level: NoneJob Shift: Day or Night ShiftsJob Category: Food Service

BASIC FUNCTION

This position is responsible for cleaning and sanitizing all dishes, utensils, pots, pans, carts used for both retail and room service operation. In addition, this position will assist and run patient carts to appropriate zones as instructed. This position requires the ability to assist with meals on wheels, catering, food preparation, and in the café as assigned. This position is required to assist with taking calls, setting up cold items on trays and expediting trays by serving as a back-up to the host/hostess as required.

The dish room position will be responsible for sanitation of the kitchen, which includes: Cleaning and maintaining the floors/walls/equipment/space, utilizing dish machine per specifications, verifying that equipment is working properly, sweep nursing units for trays left over from previous evening, wash dishes/pots/other service ware as needed, returning all clean items to the appropriate storage area, be sure that dish room sanitation levels are maintained while machine is in service (clean and dirty side division), sweep and mop department as needed/instructed, deliver trays as needed, return dirty trays to kitchen on an hourly basis, and assist with special functions as needed

SHIFT DAYS/HOURS

AM FSW 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; PM FSW 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Subject to change based on business necessity.

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Supervision Received: Kitchen Manager

Supervision Exercised: None

Other: Patients, hospital employees, patients family members and members of the general Public

EXPOSURE TO HAZARDS

To reduce job hazards, this position is responsible for wearing PPE during job functions. PPE can include: gloves, gown/coat, shoe covers, head/face, eye and ear protection. Each job function requires a different level of PPE, individuals receive initial and annual training to identify the appropriate level of PPE required. According to OSHA standards, this position is classified as low risk with little or no risk of exposure. Heavy lifting, wet floors, risk for burns, cuts, and potential overexposure to chemicals such as Clorox, dish machine detergent, etc.

EQUIPMENT USED

Stoves, ovens, grill, dish machine, slicer, mixers, steamers, microwave oven, cash register, etc.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Operates dish machine and conducts daily cleaning and weekly de-liming per specifications.


• Washes dishes, pots, and other service ware as needed. Returns all clean items to appropriate areas.


• Verifies that dish machine sanitation is maintained while machine is in service (clean and dirty side division). Properly sanitizes dirty tray cart and uses soaking bin appropriately (without bleach and for silverware and soaking tough items only)


• Records and maintains sanitizer logs. Ensures that soap and sanitizer buckets are provided for prep area and dish room each morning and before lunch and dinner meal periods


• Checks and documents temperatures according to protocol, recording temperature once during each meal service


• Keeps work area clean and uncluttered.


• Regularly verifies that equipment is working properly and communicates technical/functional issues immediately through appropriate channels.


• Conducts trays sweeps, including tray retrieval from patient rooms and storage areas, hourly, post peak meal times


• Completes all necessary café food prep as F1 or FSW. Removes out-dating food items as F3


• Assists in other positions such as room service ordering and tray set-up. Delivers patient meals as needed or instructed. Promptly pauses dish room work to assist in café when customers enter.


• Completes daily, weekly and monthly task checklist as well as daily coronavirus sanitizing task


• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education: None required

Experience: Previous experience working in a health care food service setting is preferred, but not required.

Certificates, License, Registrations:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Ability to speak, read, write, and follow written and oral instructions. Must be able to work cooperatively as part of a team. Demonstrates ability to exercise time and task management.

Physical: Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds occasionally or 10 to 25 pounds frequently, or up to 10 pounds constantly. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.