Waitstaff

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

Welcome to The Herrick House, an assisted living facility on the upper campus of the Beverly Hospital, and part of Beth Israel Lahey Health.


Responsible for preparing dining room for meals by setting tables, folding napkins, filling water glasses, providing and refilling condiments. Serves meals to residents in a courteous and professional manner and clears dishes from tables to kitchen. Removes soiled linens from tables and cleans and straightens dining room after meals.

Education/Experience:
Requires the knowledge of proper table setting and serving and the ability to follow such procedures. The ability to provide menu selection to residents, follow individual dietary restrictions and take accurate orders is essential. Requires the ability to communicate in English both orally and in writing. A high school diploma or GED is preferred.

Certification/License: None required.

Job Description:

Essential Job Functions: The employee must be able to perform these essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation by The Herrick House without posing a direct threat to himself, herself or others.

Dining Room Responsibilities

- Responsible for taking resident meal orders in a timely manner and with a positive attitude.

- Delivers resident meal orders in a timely manner.

- Prepare and set table to include tablecloth and napkin placement, setting silverware and dishes, maintaining and setting condiments.

- Makes self knowledgeable of daily menu selections and provides this information to the resident.

- Makes self knowledgeable of individual resident dietary restrictions.

- Uses bus buckets to clear tables and transport dirty dishes to dishwashing station separating glasses, china and flatware in a timely manner.

- Assures all chinaware is stacked and handled properly and carefully to avoid breakage.

- Cleans and straightens dining room after meals in preparation for next meal by vacuuming, straightening chairs and tables, refilling condiments, folding napkins, wiping furniture down, etc.

- Restocks dining room linen supply daily.

- Restocks dining room wait station as assigned Empties trash as needed. - Responsible for changing daily menus and cleaning menu cover.

- Assists with re-directing residents to their seats as needed.

- Communicates to Director of Food Services dietary constraints not adhered to by residents, resident feedback and other pertinent information or observations regarding dietary and food service.

Kitchen Area Responsibilities

- Assists in maintaining a clean kitchen and dining areas to include cleaning coffee station, microwave, small refrigerators and straightening cabinets and flatware bin.

- Responsible for picking up room service tray slips from kitchen door.

- Responsible for filling room service tray order and placing outside kitchen door for pick-up Assists in the preparation of employee meals.

- Prepares salads on a daily basis.

- Completes and initials daily assignment sheets in a timely manner Restocks refrigerators in kitchen and dining room.

Pay Range:
$15.00 - $20.18

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled