Nutrition Asst II

Location: Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center, Columbia, MD 21044

Schedule: Evening Shift, Full-Time (weekends required)

About the Role

The Nutrition Assistant II plays a vital role in providing nutritious meals and excellent customer service to patients, visitors, and staff. This position involves food preparation, serving, cash handling, cleaning, and maintaining a safe and sanitary environment in the cafeteria.

Responsibilities

• Ensure proper set up of assigned café station.
• Serve food to hospital employees, patients, and visitors while adhering to safe food handling, portioning, and labeling for proper charging at the register.
• Label, date, and rotate food items, discarding those that are expired.
• Take temperatures of hot/cold foods and record on log, noting corrective action taken for any that are out of range.
• Accurately process cash, credit, and debit transactions, ensuring correct change is given and receipts are issued.
• Ensure supplies are stocked to established par levels.
• Provide friendly and efficient service, addressing customer inquiries and concerns promptly and professionally.
• Deliver meal trays to patients’ rooms in a prompt and professional manner following established protocols for entering the room and serving the patient.
• Assist patients with tray set up as needed.
• Collect unit utility carts after dirty trays are retrieved from patient rooms.
• Adhere to hand hygiene and isolation precautions in meal delivery.
• Understand the importance of complying with patient diet orders and restrictions.
• Maintain a high degree of accuracy when checking patient trays.
• Responsible for assembly and delivery of unit floor stocks.
• Assist with light prep such as plating dessert, boxed meals, or snacks.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 1 year of previous customer service experience, preferably in a retail food environment.

Skills

• Excellent customer service skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to read and understand instructions, add and subtract numbers.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks.

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Retirement plans.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Tuition reimbursement for you and your dependents.
• Employee Referral Program Bonus.

Pay

Salary Range: $16.78/hour – $19.39/hour. Compensation will be commensurate with experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility.