Dietary Aide - Part Time - Evening
Hackensack Meridian Health · North Bergen, NJ · Yesterday
Healthcare$17.24/hrPart-time
About the Role
Prepares and serves food to all patients, staff, and visitors while maintaining a high level of service and sanitation.
Responsibilities
- Follows patients' menus accurately on the serving line and serves in the cafeteria and grill.
- Prepares salads, coffee, and desserts in accordance with meal schedules.
- Prepares late trays as required.
- Delivers food carts to designated places and ensures their return to the kitchen.
- Washes dishes, cookware, flatware, and trays using approved procedures.
- Washes pots, pans, cooking utensils, and small equipment following established sanitation procedures.
- Inspects all items for cleanliness and returns clean equipment to proper places.
- Maintains clean wash and rinse water, adding the designated sanitizing agent to the final rinse.
- Maintains a high level of sanitation in the pot washing area.
- Sets up counter, beverage system, coffee, grill, steam table, condiment station, and serving line.
- Cooks and serves grilled items according to customer requests.
- Follows proper cash handling procedures when working the cafeteria register.
- Ensures delivery of excellent customer service resulting in positive and improving patient satisfaction scores.
- Portions, serves, and replenishes dessert, pastries, salads, and hot foods.
- Replenishes paper and silverware products.
- Wraps, stores, and dates excess food and places it in appropriate refrigerators.
- Cleans and maintains the entire work area following service, including tables and chairs.
- Assists with service and setting up for special meetings.
- Relieves cafeteria personnel when necessary.
- Delivers nourishment to nursing units as required.
- Collects and removes trash and garbage to designated containers.
- Cleans work areas, equipment, walls, cabinets, storage areas, and other assigned areas in accordance with established procedures.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
- At least six (6) months' prior experience in a food service department preferred.
Pay
Minimum starting rate of $17.24 per hour. The posted rate of pay is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role and may vary based on factors including labor market data, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, budget, and grant funding.
Benefits
HMH offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time and part-time (20+ hours/week) job positions, including:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid leave.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Retirement benefits.
- Performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions (for eligible positions).
- Shift differentials for work performed on evening, night, or weekend shifts (for eligible positions).