Nutrition Services Aide, Food Service - Full Time Days

St. Luke’s University Health Network; Easton (Northampton County); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's University Health Network is hiring a Nutrition Services Aide at the Anderson Campus. The role involves delivering and stocking patient meals, assisting with tray assembly, and maintaining food quality and safety in a fast-paced hospital environment.

The position requires a high school diploma or GED (preferred) and prior customer service or food service experience is helpful but not mandatory. On-the-job training will be provided; a team-oriented, flexible approach is valued.

Qualifications

• Customer service experience preferred but not required.
• Experience in food service is helpful but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Prepares, sets, and serves all food as directed ensuring proper temperatures and portion sizes.
• Performs minor food preparation and portioning tasks according to policy.
• Gathers items needed for snacks and breaks and delivers to proper areas.
• Assists in tray assembly and delivers trays to patients per procedures.
• Uses patient identifiers to ensure safety and accuracy of meals.
• Checks trays for nutrition order compliance before delivery.
• Ensures trays are positioned correctly and assists patients with opening tray elements.
• Collects soiled trays and returns them to the kitchen for cleaning.

Skills

Customer service

Food service

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

St. Luke's is proud of the skills, experience and compassion of its employees. The employees of St. Luke's are our most valuable asset! Individually and together, our employees are dedicated to satisfying the mission of our organization which is an unwavering commitment to excellence as we care for the sick and injured; educate physicians, nurses and other health care providers; and improve access to care in the communities we serve, regardless of a patient's ability to pay for health care.

Shape the Future of Heart Care at St. Luke’s Anderson Campus! We’re entering an exciting chapter in St. Luke’s history—our largest expansion ever is opening Fall 2026.

At our brand-new, state-of-the-art Heart Hospital, you’ll work directly with patients and deliver life-changing care using the latest technology and treatments. This 350,000-square-foot expansion will, ultimately, add 150 inpatient beds, 10 cutting‑edge operating rooms, and 10 advanced interventional suites, strengthening our leadership in cardiology and tertiary services.

Since opening in 2011 on a beautiful 500-acre campus, Anderson has grown into a nationally recognized teaching hospital and a designated 100 Top Hospital. We are home to a Trauma Center and the region’s most advanced tertiary obstetrics program. This growth is driven by the dedication and compassion of our physicians, nurses, and care teams—and patient demand continues to rise. Now, we’re looking for flexible, team‑oriented professionals ready to thrive in a dynamic, fast‑growing environment. This is more than a career—it’s your chance to make a lasting impact on your community and help shape the future of heart care. Join us. Be part of something extraordinary.

WORK SCHEDULE

Full-time days, 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM.

The Nutrition Services Aide is responsible for performing a wide range of duties within the foodservice department, which may include: delivery and retrieval of patient trays, stocking supplies in various areas of the hospital, operating a POS system, portioning food, general cleaning responsibilities including ware washing, delivering, staging, and cleaning up of catered functions, answering and processing calls for patient meal requests.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepares, sets, and serves all food as directed ensuring proper temperatures and portion sizes.
• Performs minor food preparation and portioning tasks in accordance with departmental policy.
• Prepares and gathers all items needed for snacks and breaks and ensures they are delivered to the proper areas.
• Helps in tray assembly.
• Delivers trays to patients in accordance with established facility and departmental procedures.
• Utilizes established two patient identifiers to ensure patient safety.
• Double checks tray for accuracy and nutrition order compliance prior to delivery.
• Ensures the tray is positioned properly for the patient; assists the patient with the opening of any tray elements; and checks with patient for the need of any additional or missing items.
• Picks up soiled trays in a timely manner and returns trays to kitchen for proper cleaning and storage.
• Ensures and maintains proper food quality and temperature.

PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS

• Walking for up to 7 hours, 30 minutes at a time; sitting for up to 1 hour at a time and standing up to 1 ½ hours for 30 minutes at a time.
• Frequently uses handling and occasionally twisting/turning, lifting (1-50 lb.), carrying (1-50 lb.), pushing (1-50 lb.), and pulling (1-50 lb.).
• When performing essential functions, occasionally involves with stooping/bending, climbing, reaching above shoulder level.
• Employee must have the ability to hear normal conversation, have general vision, far vision, and peripheral vision.

EDUCATION

High school diploma or G.E.D. equivalency preferred.

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Customer service and/or food service experience preferred, but not necessary. On job training will be provided.

St. Luke's University Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non‑profit network of more than 23,000 employees providing services at 16 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue in excess of $4billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five‑star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100TopMajorTeachingHospital designation from Premier 13 times total and eleven years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. In 2021, St. Luke’s was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally. St. Luke’s is the ONLY health care institution in the Lehigh Valley to be named a Top Workplace regionally repeating the exclusive honor for the third year in a row. Also, for the third straight year, St. Luke’s has been a Top Workplaces in the Philadelphia Region by the Philadelphia Inquirer, ranking 9th in the large employer category for 2025 and the only health care system in PA to receive this award. In 2025, St. Luke’s was recognized as a national Top Workplaces by USA Today, three years in a row, including the 3rd best health care system in the nation in 2023 and 2024. Lastly, in 2025, St. Luke’s was named a Top Workplace in New Jersey for the third year in a row. LearnMore Here.