Hospital Dietary Aide: Patient Meals & Sanitation

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn; New York (NY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, a full-service teaching hospital and Level I trauma center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is hiring a Dietary Worker. The role entails performing routine general service tasks in kitchen, cafeteria, dish room and patient areas.

You will contribute to patient nourishments, assist with catering events, and help maintain safety and quality standards. The team emphasizes teamwork, inclusion, and exceptional service to patients and staff.

Qualifications

• Ability to read, write, speak English and follow oral/ written directions.
• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent preferred. Previous hospital and /or food service experience desirable.
• Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Completed production sheets and temperature logs as needed.
• Fosters an environment that promotes teamwork.
• Maintains established dept Policies and Procedures objective QI programs safety environment & IC standards.
• Tends & loads dish machine
• Prepares & delivers late trays to patients on the units and ER.
• Collects all soiled trays and returns them to dish room in a timely manner.
• Collects/disposes of trash/garbage as needed.
• Washes pots according to pot washing instructions and fills out logs.
• Assists with catering events as needed.
• Cleans & sanitizes work areas, storage areas, pantries, floors, refrigerators, equipment.
• Delivers patients' nourishments to nurse pantries in timely/ accurate manner.
• Assembles food trays for regular & modified diets per patient diet order/request.
• Visits patient for verbal menu selection.
• Sets up stations before meal service.
• Sweeps/mops floor & performs assigned special cleaning duties.
• Prepares cold foods such as salads desserts, sandwiches etc for patients cafeteria catered functions according to production sheets and written/oral instructions.
• Pans prepared food per production sheets and labels properly.

Skills

English proficiency

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, a full-service teaching hospital and Level I trauma center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is hiring a Dietary Worker. The role entails performing routine general service tasks in kitchen, cafeteria, dish room and patient areas.

You will contribute to patient nourishments, assist with catering events, and help maintain safety and quality standards. The team emphasizes teamwork, inclusion, and exceptional service to patients and staff.