Food Service Aide

Responsibilities

• Maintains sanitation of all assigned areas in kitchen, storage, receiving, and related food service areas.
• Maintains continuous clean working area including floors, walls, shelving, coolers, and service/preparation stations.
• Conducts food preparation in an organized, safe, and sanitary fashion while adhering to safe food handling skills.
• Transports food to classrooms within the Child Care Center.
• Stores and rotates food according to FIFO (First In, First Out) as required.
• Washes and sanitizes pots, pans, and utensils according to State sanitation regulations.
• Cleans and sanitizes all work areas.
• Discards food waste in a safe and sanitary manner.
• Maintains health food handler certification from Paterson Board of Health.
• Responsible for storeroom activities: ordering, receiving, storing, maintaining inventory, and distributing food products and supplies.
• Acts as a working leader in ordering supplies (in conjunction with Director) and issuing/delivering food and supplies.

Requirements

• Ability to read and understand written instructions.
• No previous experience required; High School diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Three to six months of on-the-job training and orientation.
• Certification as a Food Handler from the City of Paterson or similar food safety certification preferred.
• Analytical ability to read and understand instructions, perform basic arithmetic, and make comparisons between numbers and letters.

About Us

St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.

Benefits

Eligibility for full-time and part-time employees (over 20 hours a week):

• Competitive salary.
• Robust benefits including health, dental, Rx, and vision plans.
• 403b retirement plan options with company match.
• Eligibility for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness (Non-Profit Health System).
• Paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Long-term disability (LTD) and life insurance options.
• Onsite daycare program.

Available for Per Diem Employees and part-time employees working under 20 hours per week:

• 403b plan (company match not applicable).

Pay

St. Joseph’s Health provides a salary range to comply with New Jersey Law. The rate of pay for each position will be determined based on the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, and skills. The salary range does not include incentives, differential pay, or other forms of compensation.

About The Team

St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state-designated trauma center located on the Paterson campus. It regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures. The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging, and pediatrics.

The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™—one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive the award and the only one worldwide to receive it in 2010.