Food Service Worker

Food Service Team Member

Sun City West, Arizona

Culinary & Nutrition-Hosp

Varied

Facilities, Environmental Services, and Culinary

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We are seeking a dedicated and service-oriented Food Service Team Member to join our dietary and retail caf team. In this role, you will support daily food service operations across multiple assignments, including food preparation, patient trayline service, retail caf support, and facility cleaning and sanitation. The role may also involve delivering meals, nourishments, and tube feedings to patient units, assisting with catering or special events, and handling cash register transactions as needed. The ideal candidate must be able to follow established procedures and guidelines including safe handling of cleaning chemicals work efficiently under regular supervision, and consistently deliver excellent customer service to patients, families, and hospital staff. Preferred candidates will have prior experience in hospital food service and/or room service operations.

Schedule Varied: 10:00am-6:30pm, 2:00pm-10:30pm, 4:00pm-12:30am- weekends are a must.

Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center excels in providing extraordinary health care to residents of the northwest Valley of metro Phoenix and is recognized by U.S. News and World Report as one of Phoenix's Best Hospitals. With 391 licensed beds, the hospital provides a wide range of services, including acute medical and surgical services as well as intensive care, emergency and urgent care, inpatient/outpatient surgery, cardiac catheterization, neurology, orthopedics, oncology, urology, pulmonary, obstetrics and gynecology, outpatient diagnostic services, and adult behavioral services.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position works as a member of the food service team on one or more assignments in cleaning, food preparation, patient trayline or retail caf. Provides service and assistance to patients, staff and other customers in accordance with established dietary and retail cafe policies and procedures.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Sets up work station and prepares all assigned foods and nourishments in the correct quantities, following established procedures, portion control and food quality standards. Assures that food presentation continually meets standards.

2. Cleans and sanitizes dishes, flatware, trays, cups, glasses and cooking utensils. Also cleans and sanitizes designated equipment and kitchen areas disposing of all waste materials. Monitors dish machine temperature.

3. Maintains par levels of foods and/or supplies in assigned areas, orders and/or restocks items in accordance with established routines, rotates food stocks, checks expiration dates.

4. Checks and records food and equipment temperatures according to defined procedures, and reports any discrepancies to the supervisor.

5. May deliver meals, nourishments, late trays and/or tube feedings to units; return excess nourishments as requested. May also assist in catering or special event service.

6. May handle transactions at cash register (if applicable) and/or cafe.

7. This position interacts with other food service department personnel, hospital staff, patients and families. Requires the ability to follow a work routine with regular supervision, to work quickly and correctly while providing good customer service and maintaining sanitation standards. The work requires the ability to follow instructions and guidelines for the use of cleaning chemicals and be able to work in physical contact with them.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

This position requires the ability to learn and follow established policy and procedures, read and understand written and verbal instruction, to communicate effectively and to provide customer service. Must be able to learn food handling regulations and pass certification tests as required. POS (cash register) when applicable.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.