Food Service Associate 2-40 Hr Days

Job Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Work Shift: Day (United States of America)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, youre making a difference in peoples lives.

Job Description:

Winchester Hospital is a 5x Magnet designated, Top 10 Massachusetts recognized 223-bed regional hospital that is the leading provider of comprehensive health care services in the northwest suburban Boston area.

Schedule : per diem, including weekend and holiday rotation

As part of the Guest Services/Food Services team, with limited supervision, this position:

• Prepares and assembles patient trays and requests for patients and/or customers.
• Assembles attractive daily menu items, accommodating diet restrictions, allergies, and ethnic preferences as noted by the dietary order.
• Follows specified dating procedure for menu items and discards food items after three days or as labeled. Labels and dates opened foods.
• Tracks and tallies inventory. Advises supervisor of inventory counts and as requested orders food and supplies for area. Receives and dates shipments for storage.
• Maintains retail food and beverage stations according to department standards.
• Maintains a clean work area and fulfills daily cleaning assignments to ensure compliance with high sanitation standards. Handles removal of all trash for Cafe, kitchen or other areas.
• Cleans and sanitizes dishware, pots and pans.
• Completes and documents daily HACCP checks, ensuring food preparation and storage comply with food safety standards. Maintains temperature control logs.
• Prepare food from basic recipes and provides assistance as requested by the cooks and bakers.
• May serve food in cafeteria
• Delivers trays to patient rooms/areas as needed.
• Assembles Meals on Wheels
• Completes extensive cleaning and disinfecting assignments based on routine schedules to ensure compliance with all state, health and industry standard. Documents process.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Experience

Required:

• High School Diploma or GED. 2 years of food service, materials management or cashiering experience may be considered in lieu of the High School Diploma or GED.

Preferred:

• Prior Food Service experience with food preparation and assembly
• Customer service experience.
• Cash handling experience.

Other Skills/Knowledge

Required:

• For safety and quality reasons, must be able to read, write and communicate effectively in English with patients, visitors and fellow members of the hospital team.
• Basic math skills.
• Capability of managing multiple job functions.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of food safety (HACCP) standards.

Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) is an integrated health system dedicated to creating healthier communities one person at a time through seamless care and ground-breaking science, driven by excellence, innovation and equity.

Founded in 2019, our system brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, primary and specialty care, behavioral health and home care services, and more than 5,900 physicians and 36,000 employees to care for more than 1.7 million patients in communities across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Together, we are changing healthcare for the better.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement. More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled