Worker: Food Services-M

Reporting to the Supervisor of Food Service and with guidance and input from the Lead Food Service Associate, the Food Service Associate is responsible for patient meal and food service to ensure the patient satisfaction. Patients may range from infancy through late adulthood.

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Sets up and stocks assigned station prior to the start of service and for next meal to facilitate meal service and ensure efficiency.(20%)
• May retrieve patient meal trays to ensure sanitary, safe and timely patient meal service. (15%)
• Maintains appropriate floor stock according par levels and records usage accordingly
• Handles food according to proper sanitary and safety guidelines. Follows food service handling methods according to policies and procedures. (10%)
• Ensures all food is prepared using recipes in order to provide consistent, safe, nutritionally appropriate, tasty meals that are cost and budget compliant. (10%)
• Complies with current CDC hand hygiene guidelines.
• May prepare or serve hot or cold beverages, such as coffee, espresso drinks, blended coffees, or teas. Serves prepared foods, such as muffins, biscotti, or bagels.
• Stores leftovers appropriately and utilized same in subsequent day/menu in order to ensure that they are served within timeframe. (5%)
• May package, label, and date hot food items for patient service and cafeteria operations according to established cook and chill guidelines. Properly vacuum packs all food products, as required.
• May be utilized in multiple areas of need, therefore may be cross-trained to conduct many different duties such as, but not limited to tray line, storeroom, and food preparation areas.
• May work in dish room or pot area to support proper cleaning and sanitizing of equipment in accordance with department standards
• Maintains proper care and safe storage of food, equipment, and surrounding area. (10%)
• Completes daily and special cleaning assignments to provide a sanitary and safe environment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education: High School graduate or equivalent preferred

Experience: 6 months previous experience in food service preferred but not required.

Covid Vaccination is a requirement for employment at Jefferson for employees working at Jefferson’s clinical entities or at the University. If you are not currently vaccinated you will be required to receive the vaccination prior to hire date if you are offered employment, unless you request and receive an approved medical or religious exemption from Jefferson.

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson’s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.