Nutrition Assistant

Join St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We're guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

We invest in you — personally and professionally. Enjoy:

• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
• Retirement savings with employer match
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary

Process utensils and dishware for patients, cafeteria, and catered meals. Prepare and assemble foods for patients. Assemble patient meal trays and nourishments. Deliver patient meal carts and nourishment stock. Perform janitorial duties as assigned. Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Job Description

• Delivery: Deliver and retrieve room service meal carts and stock to patient care units. Coordinate with ambassadors on timing and placement of carts and ASAP trays. Add any assigned items to carts as needed.
• Retrieval: Pick up dirty tray carts, replace with clean carts. Deliver dirty tray carts to dish room.
• Cleaning: Perform janitorial tasks such as cleaning equipment and work surfaces, mopping, sweeping and trash disposal.
• Dishware: Process all utensils and dishware through automated dish machine for patients, cafeteria and catered food service in accordance with sanitary guidelines.
• Dishware: Restock clean dishware in cafeteria, cook's and room service line areas to meet service needs.
• Cleaning: Perform janitorial tasks such as cleaning equipment and work surfaces, mopping, sweeping and trash disposal.
• Quality: Compliance with all local, state, federal and medical center regulatory, safety, sanitation and security standards. Participate in performance improvement (PI) studies; assist with data collection and supports action plans
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education, Credentials, Licenses

• Must be able to read, write, understand, and follow written and verbal instructions.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.