Patient Meal Service & Kitchen Support Specialist

Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH); Beckley (WV); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

The Kitchen & Cafeteria Worker at Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) supports daily operations in the kitchen and cafeteria, including dishwashing, food item preparation, patient tray service, and customer service. This role requires attention to food safety, the ability to operate a cash register, and a flexible team player ready to assist with catering, stocking, and cleaning tasks as needed.

Be prepared for fast-paced service in a hospital environment.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma preferred.
• Up to 1 year of experience preferred.
• Ability to operate a cash register and handle cash.

Responsibilities

• Assists in all phases of food preparation while maintaining a clean and safe kitchen and cafeteria area.
• Assists in preparing, servicing and transporting patient trays, snacks or supplements. Retrieve patient trays, washing and storing as necessary.
• Arranges and stocks food items on cafeteria counter and serves cafeteria customers. Checks temperature of food on cafeteria steam tables. Refills or restocks condiments and other items as needed.
• Takes temperature for refrigerators, freezers and temperatures of food prior to meal served.
• Cleans preparation area and equipment.
• Operates cash register, collects payments from customers in cafeteria and records cash after each snack and meal period.
• Assists in preparation, serving and clean-up of catered meals.
• Assists with vending machines operation as needed.
• Performs all necessary operations of cleaning dishes and other meal serving utensils including scraping, racking, hand-washing of dishes, trays, and silverware.
• Assists on trayveyor line during patient tray service period.
• May assist in storing staple goods or other supplies.
• Disposes all garbage accumulated during assigned shift and cleans garbage cans and area.
• May clean pots and pans as assigned.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Problem solving

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

The Kitchen & Cafeteria Worker at Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) supports daily operations in the kitchen and cafeteria, including dishwashing, food item preparation, patient tray service, and customer service. This role requires attention to food safety, the ability to operate a cash register, and a flexible team player ready to assist with catering, stocking, and cleaning tasks as needed.

Be prepared for fast-paced service in a hospital environment.