Nutrition Care Associate

imh; Heber (UT); On-site; USD 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uniforms provided

Job summary

Intermountain Health's St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, MT is seeking a Nutrition Care Associate to support patient meals, deliver trays, and assist with food service. Uniforms are provided and shifts rotate across early and late hours to meet facility needs.

The role includes food preparation, cashier duties, and patient-focused service, with opportunities to grow into catering and other culinary areas as the hospital expands for its 2030 opening.

Qualifications

• Food Handler Permit or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work (required only in the states of Utah and Idaho).
• Demonstrated ability to work with modified diets (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Delivers and presents trays to patients using the standard process.
• Performs food preparation functions according to system standards (following standard recipe, assembling ingredients) for example, prepares salads, sandwiches, vegetables, and fruit.
• Follows standardized practices relating to Nutrition Services (e.g. dining experience, meal delivery, maintaining required stock levels)
• Performs housekeeping functions including cleaning and sanitizing surfaces, floor care, and equipment (oven, fryer, hoods).
• Performs accurate cash/credit transactions according to system standards and independently resolves basic customer service issues.

Skills

Active Listening

Coordinating tasks

Guest focused

Communicates clearly

Attention to detail

Job description

Job Description

Performs a variety of food and guest service duties under general supervision. This position includes the following roles, which will vary by facility need: patient meal tray assembly and delivery, cashier, food assembly, food serving, and cleaning.

Job Specifics

Hours: Full-Time (40 hours)

Benefits Eligible: Yes - Link to Benefit Details

Shifts: five shifts per weekwith weekend rotations and flexibility to work other available shifts. Shift assignment will be determined at time of interview.

• 1st shift is 6:00 am - 2:30 pm,
• 2nd shift is 11:30 am - 8:00 pm,
• 3rd shift is 12:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Uniforms are provided

Are you passionate about food and the difference it can make in people’s lives? As a Nutrition Care Associate on our Food & Nutrition Services team, you’ll support patient care and enhance the patient experience by delivering and presenting high-quality, nourishing meals for inpatients, visitors, and the public.

Food is more than fuel; it’s comfort, healing, and connection. This role offers opportunities to grow your skills and expand into areas such as catering and other culinary specialties.

Join a team that’s building toward the future as we prepare for the opening of our new hospital location in 2030. Get ready to reach new heights, ignite your passion, and pursue what matters by cooking with us.

St. Vincent Regional Hospital delivers compassionate, quality care to the people of Montana and Northern Wyoming, as it has for more than 125 years. In addition to 30 regional clinics, we offer a number of progressive specialty services. St. Vincent even has a special “hospital within a hospital” just for children, St. Vincent Children’s Hospital.

Job Function

Performs a variety of food and guest service duties under general supervision. This position includes the following roles, which will vary by facility need: patient meal tray assembly and delivery, cashier, food assembly, food serving, and cleaning.

Essential Functions

• Delivers and presents trays to patients using the standard process.
• Performs food preparation functions according to system standards (following standard recipe, assembling ingredients) for example, prepares salads, sandwiches, vegetables, and fruit.
• Follows standardized practices relating to Nutrition Services (e.g. dining experience, meal delivery, maintaining required stock levels)
• Performs housekeeping functions including cleaning and sanitizing surfaces, floor care, and equipment (oven, fryer, hoods).
• Performs accurate cash/credit transactions according to system standards and independently resolves basic customer service issues.

Skills

• Active Listening
• Coordinating tasks with others
• Guest focused
• Communicates clearly
• Attention to detail

Qualifications

• Food Handler Permit or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work (required only in the states of Utah and Idaho).
• Demonstrated ability to work with modified diets (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred)

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment. Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typical includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
• Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.

Location

Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital

Work City

Billings

Work State

Montana

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$17.68 - $22.99

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

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