Food Service Associate - Part Time - Evening

About the Role

As a Food Service Associate at Hackensack Meridian Health, you will prepare and deliver patient meals within strict deadlines while maintaining a high level of patient satisfaction for food and nutrition. This role involves meal preparation and assembly, dishwashing, utility work, and register handling.

Responsibilities

• Maintains compliance with diet prescriptions and obtains patient preferences within those diets.
• Operates the register, when assigned, following established procedures, including close-out and deposit steps, and completing over-ring error slips.
• Cleans and sanitizes all equipment, including cooking equipment, work stations, refrigerators, and food warmers.
• Performs routine sanitation tasks such as sweeping, mopping, garbage removal, and completing daily checklists.
• Completes and maintains proper documentation for dishmachine temperatures, chemical logs, food temperatures, late tray logs, and pantry supply sheets.
• Posts menu boards and signage as assigned.
• Prepares and serves food accurately following menu and portion guides.
• Pre-portion desserts and other foods as assigned.
• Stocks stations with food, supplies, and other needed items.
• Inspects china for cleanliness and chippings.
• Delivers and picks up food trucks according to schedule and delivers Child Care meals as assigned.
• Adheres to proper food handling methods as required by local, state, and federal regulations.
• Follows all HACCP, Aide, and HIPAA guidelines, including proper hand washing, personal hygiene, food production, storage, labeling, dating, recording accurate temperatures, and cleaning and sanitation.
• Completes other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Requirements

• Ability to juggle tasks and meet deadlines.
• Good communication and customer service skills.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs.
• Strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of patients and their caregivers.
• Exceptional focus on teamwork.
• Dedication to ongoing education.
• Passion for delivering the highest quality of care based on a strong sense of patient focus.

Qualifications

• High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs (preferred).
• Some experience in food service (preferred).

Pay

The minimum starting rate of pay for this role is $17.62 per hour. The posted rate is a reasonable good faith estimate and may vary based on factors such as labor market data, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, budget, and grant funding. Full-time and part-time positions (20+ hours/week) may also be eligible for shift differentials, performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions.

Benefits

Hackensack Meridian Health offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time and part-time (20+ hours/week) employees, including health, dental, vision, paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and retirement benefits.