Food Service Associate - Hospital

At SSM Health, we know the healing power of presence begins with compassionate employees like you.

As a Food Services Assistant, you know how nutrition is very important to any community.

Our Mission and Values put the patient first and place you in a position to improve each day.

As a Food Services Assistant, you will take on a range of responsibilities starting with the patient tray line, where you will give meals to patients. You will use your knowledge of different diets, and you value cleanliness, helping cater events and washing dishes, pots and pans as needed.

What’s more, your ideas are invaluable to the team. We will call upon you to participate in HACCP food safety program and identify and address problems with new ideas.

Thrive as a Food Services Assistant and gain a career’s worth of working knowledge.

In return, you can expect a work environment where:

• Food Service Assistants feel valued, respected and free to express themselves;
• Each employee finds meaning in work, leveraging skills and talents toward a greater purpose;
• Teamwork and collaboration is encouraged, while management is supportive.

If you take pride in your work…

If you attend to each detail with great care…

If the nutritional needs of our community matters to you…

Then we’d love to learn more! Please fill out your application today.

Join a network of SSM Health employees just as kind and powerful as you.

Performs duties relative to the preparation, portioning, serving and distribution of meals within the cafeteria and to patient units. Ensures safe food handling and sanitation standards are maintained. Duties may rotate among preparation, serving, distribution, stocking and clean up duties.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Sets up stations with entrees, soups, salads, breads, condiments, and all other food products and serving utensils to established portions. Replenishes as needed during meal service and breaks down at end of meal periods.
• Reads patient meal orders according to prescribed diets, prepares trays according to menu cards. Reviews trays for completeness and places trays on carts or appropriate transport.
• Transports food carts and late trays to designated areas. Ensures safe food handling and established infection control processes. Prepares and delivers dietary food stock for patient units.
• Maintains a sanitary work environment through following established procedures. Ensures all equipment is maintained and in good working order.
• Documents the temperature of specified foods and refrigerator/freezer units. Makes necessary adjustments and reports problems when temperature is out of range.
• Retrieves used issued trays in a timely, efficient manner from the cafeteria and/or patient care units. Washes and sanitizes dishes using established methods and timeline. Puts clean dishes and utensils away in proper areas. Cleans work area, tables, cabinets, carts, and all other areas as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION


EXPERIENCE

• No experience required