Dietary Aide

Dietary Aide

Prepares, assembles, rethermalizes and serves food to patients, cafeteria patrons and catered events. Performs dishwashing and other sanitation duties.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Upholds Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures, principles of responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Assembles/prepares patient, cafeteria, and catering food to include entree, salad, dessert, beverage, nourishments.
• Prepares tray line, assemble food trays in accordance with worksheets and place assembled food trays on food carts.
• Rethermalizes precooked foods for patients, cafeteria patrons, and catered event participants.
• Sets up and replenishes food and non-food items in cafeteria and conferences and replenishes hot and cold food items on cafeteria and catering lines.
• Labels and refrigerates leftovers.
• Delivers patient tray carts and nourishments to food distribution centers on each floor.
• Serves trays to patients.
• Serves food to cafeteria and conference patrons.
• Returns trays and carts to dishwashing area.
• Sanitizes carts after each use; operates dishwasher to wash all dishes, trays, and utensils; washes pots and pans, stores cleaned items according to established procedure.
• Cleans various areas and equipment to include serving and dining areas, steam table, refrigerators, microwave ovens, and other equipment used in performing their tasks.
• Receives and stores delivered food; paper and supplies and verify orders received.
• Establishes and maintains courteous, cooperative relations when interacting with other personnel, health plan members and the public.
• Performs other related duties as required.
• Promotes, ensures, and improves customer service to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills which are consistent with the organizations philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service.
• Assume other activities and responsibilities from time to time as directed.

Basic Qualifications:

• Six months food service experience required.
• Must be able to lift items weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Must push and pull carts weighing 100 lbs.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain positive working relationships and courteous interactions with the public.

Education:

• N/A

License, Certification, Registration:

• Food Handler Certificate (California)

Additional Requirements:

• N/A

Preferred Qualifications:

• One year experience or equivalent in a food establishment.
• Knowledge of hospital food service operations.

Notes:

• This position is per diem on call days of work variable Sunday to Saturday.

Primary Location: California, Ontario, Ontario - Vineyard Medical Center - H Scheduled Weekly Hours: 20 Shift: Day Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat Working Hours Start: 12:01 AM Working Hours End: 11:59 PM Job Schedule: Call-in/On-Call Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Onsite Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B05|USW|Local 7600 Job Level: Entry Level Department: Ontario Hospital - Food Preparation - 0801 Pay Range: $19.77 - $21.82 / hour Travel: No On-site: Work location is on-site (KP designated office, medical office building or hospital). Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.