Service Aide-Food Service

NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan is the community hospital of choice for residents of East Harlem, northern Manhattan, and neighboring communities. The hospital provides culturally-sensitive care in a welcoming and hospitable setting, emphasizing primary care medicine and utilizing the latest advances in medical science. Metropolitan delivers high quality health services with compassion, dignity, and respect to all, without exception. Since its founding in 1875, the hospital has been affiliated with New York Medical College, representing the oldest partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States. Metropolitan is part of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal hospital and health care system in the country.

About the role

Under direct supervision, performs work of ordinary difficulty and responsibility in the areas of food services, housekeeping, and maintenance and grounds operations.

Responsibilities

Food Services Operations

• Sets up assigned station with appropriate items before meal service; checks for cleanliness before starting preparation of food.
• Assembles prepared food on trays for patients according to menu cards or special diet lists.
• Delivers trays to patients and collects/returns soiled trays to the kitchen area.
• Participates in daily menu conferences and food service operations of cafeteria or dining room area, including organizing the serving area and collecting dishes and resetting tables.
• Assists in cooking operations and prepares patients’ between-meal nourishment and cold foods (e.g., salads, sandwiches, desserts) according to oral and/or written instruction; reconstitutes hot foods in microwave ovens.
• Serves foods at proper temperatures utilizing appropriate kitchen equipment.
• Cleans kitchen and dining areas.
• Washes, sanitizes, and/or sterilizes dishes, working areas/surfaces, utensils, and equipment.
• Collects, transports, and/or disposes of garbage and trash in designated containers; runs appropriate items through a dishwasher utilizing appropriate cleaning and sanitizing agent(s).
• Obtains stock from refrigerators and/or storerooms.
• Loads and unloads stock, and dispatches and stores supplies.
• Attends in-service education programs, as assigned.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned or directed.

Housekeeping Operations

• Cleans, maintains, and/or sterilizes assigned areas of the health care setting by emptying wastebaskets, sweeping, dusting, vacuuming, and washing/mopping floors, walls, ceilings, window sills, Venetian blinds, furniture, and medical equipment with appropriate cleaning equipment, solutions, and disinfectants.
• Bags soiled linens.
• Cleans mirrors and scours and disinfects toilets, sinks, tubs, and showers using appropriate cleaning equipment, solutions, and disinfectants.
• Cleans unsterile trays and equipment.
• Cleans and disinfects metal containers, sputum disposal room, and equipment.
• Distributes clean sputum cups, containers, and paper bags for waste to patients.
• Collects and disposes of cups and waste, handles and disposes of sputum specimen containers.
• Fills ice compartment of oxygen equipment and obtains oxygen tanks when required.
• Polishes metal.
• Maintains floors by stripping, waxing, and polishing utilizing appropriate cleaning equipment.
• Collects, empties, transports, and/or disposes of debris and garbage in designated containers.
• Relines waste containers with appropriate liner(s) and transports infectious waste material to designated areas.
• Assists in loading and unloading trucks and filling stock requisitions.
• Transports household supplies and equipment and assists supervisor in such tasks as distributing cleaning supplies.
• Moves furniture and equipment, and assists in the make-up and breakdown of beds (including their proper storage).
• Maintains control over tools and equipment.
• Keeps mechanical equipment in proper running order.
• May perform auxiliary services in health care setting laboratories, pharmacies, and other special areas.

Maintenance and Ground Operations

• Maintains grounds, cuts lawns and shrubs, and cleans walkways, including but not limited to shoveling snow, to provide for a physically safe environment for pedestrians and vehicles.
• Assists with the removal of debris.
• Assists in loading, unloading, and storing supplies, equipment, and/or tools at point of pick-up, delivery, or distribution.
• Fills and distributes/transports requisitioned records, materials, supplies, and equipment including but not limited to food stock, cleaning supplies, medical supplies, and ground maintenance equipment.

Requirements

• Ability to read and write English and to understand and carry out simple instructions.