Nutrition Asst II

Nutrition Assistant II

The Nutrition Assistant II plays a vital role in providing nutritious meals and excellent customer service to patients, visitors and staff. This position involves food preparation, serving, cash handling, cleaning and maintaining as safe and sanitary environment in the cafeteria.

Hours: Rotating Shift /Part-Time Weekends required

Location: Howard County General Hospital 5755 Cedar Lane Columbia MD

Education: High school diploma or equivalent required.

Essential Functions:

• Ensure proper set up of assigned café station.
• Serve food to hospital employees, patients and visitors while adhering to safe food handling, portioning, and labeling for proper charging at register.
• Responsible to label, date and rotate food items, discarding those that are expired.
• Responsible to take temperatures of hot/cold foods and record on log noting corrective action taken for any that are out of range.
• Accurately process cash, credit and debit transactions, ensuring correct change is given and receipts are issued.
• Ensure supplies are stocked to established par levels.
• Provide friendly and efficient service, addressing customer inquiries and concerns promptly and professionally.
• Deliver meal trays to patients' rooms in a prompt and professional manner following established protocols for entering the room and serving the patient.
• Assist patient with tray set up as needed.
• Collect unit utility carts after dirty trays retrieved from patient rooms.
• Adhere to hand hygiene and isolation precautions in meal delivery.
• Understand importance of complying with patient diet orders and restrictions.
• Maintain a high degree of accuracy when checking patient trays.
• Responsible for assembly and delivery of unit floor stocks.
• Assist with light prep such as plating dessert, boxed meals or snacks.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent customer service skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Work requires the skills to read and understand instructions, add and subtract numbers.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks

Work Experience: 1 year of previous customer service experience, preferably in a retail food environment.

Our competitive Benefit Package is designed to support the well-being and financial security of our employees and includes:

• Full medical, dental, and vision plans,
• Retirement plans,
• Paid time off (PTO),
• Tuition reimbursement for you and your dependents,
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Salary Range: Minimum $16.78/hour - Maximum $19.39/hour. Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility. In cases where the range is displayed as a $0 amount, salary discussions will occur during candidate screening calls, before any subsequent compensation discussion is held between the candidate and any hiring authority.

The Hospital reserves the right to modify employee schedules as needed.

We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, where we embrace and celebrate our differences, where all employees feel valued, contribute to our mission of serving the community, and engage in equitable healthcare delivery and workforce practices.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are drug-free workplace employers.