West Tennessee Healthcare

Public, nonprofit hospital system with centers

Food Service Assistant

Culinary & Kitchen Production +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Part-timeJackson, TN, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A high school diploma or GED is required.

Responsibilities

Assemble patient trays, set up and maintain the serving line and area, and keep the tray line area clean and orderly during an assigned shift five days per week.
Serve and replenish food from counters and steam tables, and break down stations at the end of meal periods.
Clean and sanitize workstations, counters, steam tables, and other equipment.
Perform dish room activities for ware washing while meeting timelines and regulatory requirements.
Deliver food carts to nursing floors at each meal for distribution.
Pick up trays from patient rooms following each meal and return carts to Food and Nutrition Service.
Receive, sort, wash, rack, and shelve china and glassware, and perform additional cleaning as required.
Store, label, and date food according to hospital safety and sanitation guidelines with 100% accuracy.
Perform related responsibilities as required or directed.

Desired Qualifications

Six months to one year of experience in health care food service or a related field.

Category:

Support Services

City:

Jackson

State:

Tennessee

Shift:

8 - Other Shift (United States of America)

Job Description Summary:

Responsible for assembly of patient trays, setting up and maintaining serving line and area, and keeping tray line area in a clean and orderly condition. Under the direct supervision of the Patient Service Managers, responsible for an assigned shift, five days per week.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Serves and replenishes food from counters and steam tables, and breaks down stations at the end of meal periods.
Cleans and sanitizes workstations, counters, steam tables and other equipment.
Performs dish room activities for ware washing, meeting timelines and regulatory requirements.
Delivers food carts to nursing floors at each meal for distribution.
Picks up trays from patient rooms following each meal bringing, returning carts to Food and Nutrition Service.
Receives, sorts, washes, racks, shelves china and glassware and performs another cleaning as required.
Properly stores, labels and dates food according to hospital safety and sanitation guidelines with 100% accuracy.
Performs related responsibilities as required or directed.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:

High School diploma or GED required.

LICENSURE, REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATION:

None

EXPERIENCE:

Six months to one year of experience in Health Care food service or related field preferred

NONDISCRIMINATION NOTICE STATEMENT

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About the Company

West Tennessee Healthcare

Public, nonprofit hospital system with centers

West Tennessee Healthcare is a public, not-for-profit health system based in Jackson, Tennessee, anchored by Jackson-Madison County General Hospital with 635 beds and several centers of excellence, including Women and Children, Cancer, Emergency, Rehabilitation, and Heart care. Care is delivered through a network of facilities offering inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and specialty services, with centers coordinating to provide comprehensive treatment across the region. It differentiates itself by its not-for-profit, community-focused model and integrated centers of excellence under one regional system, rather than a for-profit, multi-provider setup. Its goal is to provide broad, community-focused healthcare across West Tennessee through an integrated hospital network, ensuring access to acute, specialty, emergency, rehabilitation, and cancer and heart services for residents in the area.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Jackson, MS
Founded: 1950

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