Food Service Worker, PRN

Overview

Harrison County Hospital is seeking to hire a Food Service Worker for the Nutrition Services Department.

Position available: PRN, 8-16 hrs/wk, rotating shifts plus weekends.

• The Food Service Worker gathers and prepares food and supplies for patient trays and cafeteria service. Assembles patient trays and delivers, and picks up trays from units. Serves in the cafeteria. Maintains work area in a sanitary condition and maintains safety precautions.
• Deliver and pick up trays from patient care areas and returns to kitchen.
• Label snacks, deliver AM & PM snacks to patient rooms, leaves HS snacks in diet kitchen, as needed.
• Keeps diet kitchens stocked to par levels and fills requisitions received.
• Uses portion control when serving.
• Keeps cafeteria line stocked with food and supplies.
• Wears gloves for making sandwiches.
• Completes cleaning and sanitation procedures.
• Covers, labels, dates all foods prior to storage.
• Completes all job duties and operates equipment to prevent personal injury.
• Scrapes and washes dishes using good infection control.
• Uses good hand washing.
• Keeps track of calorie counts.

• Food service experience is preferred, but not required
• Diploma/GED not required

• Food preparation
• Customer service

• Uses diet order and Cardex to prepare diet identification for each patient.
• Prepares census sheet indicating types and numbers of each diet.
• Prepares and portions salads, desserts, and beverages on the menu in quantity determined by menus, census, and preferences.
• Places appropriate condiments, paper goods, beverages, salad, and desserts on the tray efficiently and accurately.
• Uses cash registers competently.
• Demonstrates good customer service skills.
• Labels snacks, delivers AM & PM snacks to patient rooms, leaves HS snacks in diet kitchen, as needed.
• Keeps diet kitchens stocked to par levels and fills requisitions received.
• Wears gloves for making sandwiches.
• Completes cleaning and sanitation procedures.
• Counts, labels, and dates all foods prior to storage.
• Keeps track of calorie counts.
• Uses portion control when serving.
• Delivers and picks up trays from patient care areas and returns to kitchen.

As an affiliate of Norton Healthcare, we enjoy the best of both worlds - access to all the resources of the largest health system in Louisville, while retaining local ownership and leadership in daily operations.

Harrison County Hospital has continuously served the people of Harrison County since 1950. Today our acute care community hospital serves the healthcare needs of a much broader and growing population in Harrison and Crawford counties, Indiana and Meade County, Kentucky.

As our community grows, we grow, serving more patients than ever before, and recruiting highly qualified hospital and medical staff.