Nutrition Services Aide - Full Time, Days

St. Luke’s Health Network, Inc.; Stroudsburg (Monroe County); On-site; USD 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's University Health Network in Stroudsburg, PA, is seeking a patient-focused food service team member to prepare, assemble, and deliver meals and snacks to patients in a timely and accurate manner.

The role includes ensuring proper temperatures, assisting patients with trays, and maintaining food quality and safety. On-the-job training is provided, and prior customer service or food service experience is welcome.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED preferred.
• Customer service or food service experience preferred, but not required.
• On-the-job training will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Prepares, sets, and serves all food as directed ensuring proper temperatures and portion sizes.
• Performs minor food preparation and portioning tasks per departmental policy.
• Prepares and gathers items for snacks and breaks and delivers them to proper areas.
• Assists in tray assembly.
• Delivers trays to patients following established procedures.
• Verifies patient identifiers for safety and accuracy.
• Checks trays for accuracy and nutrition order compliance prior to delivery.
• Ensures trays are positioned correctly and assists patients with opening tray items.
• Receives used trays and returns them to kitchen for cleaning and storage.
• Maintains food quality and temperature throughout service.

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.

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.