Food Service Worker (FSW) at Orchard Hospital – Gridley, California

Food Service Worker (FSW)

The Food Service Worker (FSW), under the supervision of the Director of Food Services (DFS)/Assistant Director of Food Services (ADFS)/Registered Dietician (RD) or Cook, provides quality meals and service to patients, residents, visitors, and staff while supporting organization wide customer experience. Qualifications:

• Foodservice experience in a healthcare/facility setting is preferred
• Ability to work well with others
• Clean and appropriately groomed
• Ability to read, write and speak English.
• Serve Safe Certification is preferred

Job Requirements:

1. Prepares and serves food for residents, patients, staff, and visitors; working the dining room window during meal times and serves staff and visitors as needed;
2. Operates kitchen equipment in a safe manner; Cleans and sanitizes work area and equipment after use. Follows food safety practices throughout;
3. Dates, rotates inventory, and dates, rotates, and disposes of expired food and beverage items in patient and resident care areas and in administrative areas and follows food safety practices throughout all duties;
4. Properly completes all pertinent logs to ensure food safety compliance including: refrigerator/freezer logs, cool down log, internal food and beverage temperature log, thermometer calibration log, dish machine log, quaternary ammonium log, etc.;
5. Prepares and portions food and beverage items according to Menu Spread sheets and Tray tickets;
6. Serves therapeutic meals according to personalized tray tickets. Prints and utilizes food production reports and tray tickets from resident diet systems;
7. Prints and prepares snack with labels and delivers snacks at specified times and interprets diet order per current diet manual;
8. Thoroughly completes all tasks within allotted time of the work schedule and completes all cleaning tasks assigned; cleaning and stocking coffee or beverage carts as indicated throughout facilities, cleaning and stocking staff dining areas, carrying out housekeeping duties within the department;
9. Unloads dirty dishes and trays from food carts and utilizes dish machine for the cleaning and sanitizing them. Cleans and sanitizes work areas and equipment after use;
10. Communicates repairs and other needs to various supporting departments (IT, EVS, Engineering, etc.) by submitting work orders;
11. Demonstrates proficiency navigating through Orchard Hospital Health Information Systems (HIS) ELearning, and Orchard Hospital Policies and Procedures and reads email and responds as indicated each shift worked and able to locate policy and procedures;score: N/A
12. Maintains a professional appearance and demeanor and high level of confidentiality in all matters. Demonstrates effective communication with members of the health care team to achieve desired outcomes; attends and participates in all required in-service training and mandatory meetings per policy;score: N/A
13. Able to fulfill physical demands of the position and demonstrates competency in skills, knowledge, ability, and equipment as required for the position and area of assignment.