Food Services Associate

UNC Health; North Carolina; On-site; USD 24,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health in Raleigh, NC, is hiring for a full-time food service assistant. You will support higher-level staff in meal preparation, tray handling, and maintaining sanitary work areas. Duties include delivering trays to patient rooms, ensuring diet accuracy, and upholding safety standards.

No prior experience or licensure is required. The role is on-site with a 40-hour work week, and pays hourly between $17.60 and $24.29, depending on experience and equity considerations.

Qualifications

• No degree required beyond general qualifications.
• No licensure or certification required.
• No prior experience required.

Responsibilities

• Assists with dirty food tray removal from nursing units.
• Assists with early and late food tray deliveries in a timely manner.
• Ensures tray preparation, accuracy, and adherence to special diets and customer service.
• Delivers food trays or nourishments to patients' rooms or nursing units.
• Cleans and sanitizes kitchen equipment, utensils and work areas; washes dishes by hand or machine.

Skills

Customer service

Sanitation

Food handling

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

• Assists with dirty food tray removal from nursing units.
• Assists with early and late food tray deliveries in a timely manner
• Assists with tray preparation and/or delivery and works to ensure tray accuracy, adherence to special diets and customer service
• Assists with tray preparation during meal service hours.
• Clean and sanitize kitchen equipment, utensils and work areas, including dish room. Washes dishes by hand or by machine.
• Delivers food trays or nourishments to patient's rooms or nursing units.
• Maintains compliance with JCAHO, State Health Department, and OSHA regarding on-going required job training and health standards,
• 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

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.

Job Details

• Legal Employer: NCHEALTH
• Entity: UNC REX Healthcare
• Organization Unit: Rex FNS Main
• Work Type: Full Time
• Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
• Salary Range: $17.60 - $24.29 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:Raleigh
• 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.