• Food Services Worker

    Aerotek (Washington, DC)


    Job Title: Food Services Worker

    Job Description

    The Food Services Worker plays a crucial role in assembling and customizing patient meal trays, ensuring that dietary selections and orders are accurately reflected. This position involves working in a refrigerated environment to prepare meal trays before delivery to patient care units.

    Responsibilities

    + Assemble tray carts for patient lunch and dinner utilizing patient selections and diet orders.

    + Customize patient meal trays with requested drinks, desserts, and rolls.

    + Set up patient food service stations for breakfast according to tally sheets or established par levels.

    + Assist in the assembly of patient breakfast trays.

    + Deliver meal trays and snacks to patients on assigned units, replacing missing items and offering alternatives.

    + Refill beverages and condiments from hospitality carts and inform unit-nursing staff of refused or missing trays.

    + Document food and liquid intake for selected patients.

    + Retrieve meal trays from patients' rooms, ensuring no personal items are left behind.

    + Strip food carts and breakfast trays, sort and rinse dishes and silverware in preparation for washing.

    + Assist in the washing of breakfast dishes and trays.

    + Deliver menus to patients, explain the menu process, and assist with menu selections.

    + Recommend or offer alternative selections for patients not choosing from the menu.

    + Ensure every patient has been contacted by completing the host round sheet.

    + Return completed menus and host round sheets to the Hospitality Service Office.

    + Check with the Hospitality Service Office for new admissions or diet changes and take menus and diet awareness cards to patients.

    + Complete requests for NOW trays, discharged trays, guest trays, and isolation trays, securing nursing staff sign-off prior to delivery.

    + Inventory and stock the hospitality cart or basket and deliver bulk nourishments as requested.

    + Provide clerical support to the Hospitality Service Office, including answering phones and following up on requests.

    + Produce standard computer reports, including meal tallies, diet orders, nourishment labels, patient meal tray tickets, and menus.

    + Enter patient selections and special food preferences for therapeutic diets.

    + Attend and assist in departmental in-services.

    Essential Skills

    + Experience in food preparation and food service.

    + Volume cooking experience.

    + Strong customer service skills.

    + Experience with recipes, measuring, and cutting.

    + Line cook experience.

    Additional Skills & Qualifications

    + Experience in food prep and food service.

    + Exceptional customer service experience.

     

    Why Work Here?

     

    This contract-to-hire position offers the chance to be permanently hired by a major DC hospital, with access to hospital benefits. Employees have the opportunity for raises based on excellent attendance and performance.

     

    Work Environment

     

    The position is located in a hospital's Nutritional Services department. Shift hours are from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, with schedules released every two weeks. Weekend availability is required, with no exceptions.

     

    Job Type & Location

     

    This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Washington, District of Columbia.

     

    Pay and Benefits

     

    The pay range for this position is $18.00 - $18.00/hr.

    Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job

    classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be

     

    subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits

    available for this temporary role may include the following:

    • Medical, dental & vision

    • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

    • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available

    • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)

    • Short and long-term disability

    • Health Spending Account (HSA)

    • Transportation benefits

    • Employee Assistance Program

    • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

     

    Workplace Type

     

    This is a fully onsite position in Washington,DC.

     

    Application Deadline

     

    This position is anticipated to close on Jun 6, 2025.

    About Aerotek:

    We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

     

    Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

     

    The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.