Food Services Associate

UNC Health Care; Apex (NC); On-site; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health in Apex, NC, is seeking a Dietary Aide to assist with meal service, tray assembly, and delivering meals to patient areas. You will help maintain sanitary standards and support daily operations in Rex Apex Conv Care Dietary.

No prior experience is required; no licensure or certification is necessary, and education requirements are minimal. This is a full-time, onsite role offering a stable 40-hour work week and competitive hourly pay.

Qualifications

• Education: None required as long as other qualifications are met.
• Licensure/Certification: No licensure or certification required.
• Professional Experience: No prior experience required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with removing dirty food trays from nursing units.
• Deliver food trays in a timely manner, including early and late deliveries.
• Assist with tray preparation, ensure accuracy and adherence to special diets.
• Prepare trays during meal service hours.
• Clean and sanitize kitchen equipment, utensils and work areas.
• Deliver trays or nourishments to patient rooms or units.
• Maintain compliance with health and safety standards and training.
• Transfer food in kitchen and on patient trays using proper protocols.

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary

This position assists higher-level personnel in preparing and serving food, and maintaining a clean work area. Work is reviewed for adherence to sanitary standards and completion of assignments.

Responsibilities

• 1. Assists with dirty food tray removal from nursing units.
• 2. Assists with early and late food tray deliveries in a timely manner
• 3. Assists with tray preparation and/or delivery and works to ensure tray accuracy, adherence to special diets and customer service
• 4. Assists with tray preparation during meal service hours.
• 5. Clean and sanitize kitchen equipment, utensils and work areas, including dish room. Washes dishes by hand or by machine.
• 6. Delivers food trays or nourishments to patient's rooms or nursing units.
• 7. Maintains compliance with JCAHO, State Health Department, and OSHA regarding on-going required job training and health standards,
• 8. Transfers food in kitchen and on patient trays in a timely manner and using proper protocol (wears hair restraint, gloves, and properly covers food to prevent contamination).

Other Information

Education Requirements:

• * None required as long as other position qualifications are met

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

• * No licensure or certification required.

Professional Experience Requirements:

• * No prior experience required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Rex Apex Conv Care Dietary

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$18.00 - $24.66 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Variable

Location of Job: US:NC:Apex

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [e-mail] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.