**Job Title: Food Services Worker** **Job Description** As a Food Services Worker, you will assemble tray carts of patient lunch and dinner meal trays for patient care units, utilizing information from patient selections and diet orders. You will customize patient meal trays prior to delivery, ensuring the inclusion of requested items. This role involves working in a refrigerated environment and requires attention to detail and excellent customer service skills. **Responsibilities** + Set up patient food service stations on the tray-line for breakfast meal trays 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, replace missing items, and offer alternative selections for undesired items. + Refill hot beverages and condiments from the hospitality cart. + Inform unit-nursing staff of refused trays, missing trays, or patients not in their rooms. + Document food and liquid intake for selected patients. + Retrieve meal trays from patients' rooms and patient care unit kitchens, ensuring no personal items are left on the tray. + Strip food carts and breakfast meal trays, sort and rinse dishes and silverware, and assist in washing breakfast dishes/trays. + Deliver menus to patients, explain the menu process, and assist in completing menu selections. + Recommend or offer alternative selections when patients do not select from the menu. + Ensure every patient has been contacted by completing the host round sheet for the unit. + Check with the Hospitality Service Office for new admissions or diet changes, deliver new menus and diet awareness cards to patients, and return completed menus to the office. + Complete requests for and deliver NOW trays/meals, discharged trays, guest trays, and isolation trays with appropriate unit nursing staff sign-off prior to delivery. + Inventory and stock the hospitality cart and/or hospitality basket, and deliver bulk nourishments to units as requested. + Provide clerical support to the Hospitality Service Office, including answering the telephone and following up on requests and problems. + Produce standard computer reports, including meal tallies, diet orders, nourishment labels, patient meal tray tickets, and patient menus using the computer system. + Enter patient selections and appropriate special food preferences for patients on therapeutic diets. + Attend and assist in departmental in-services. **Essential Skills** + Food preparation skills + Volume cooking experience + Customer service experience + Recipe measuring and cutting experience + Experience in food service and line cooking **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Previous prep experience in food service + Excellent customer service skills **Why Work Here?** This is a contract-to-hire position with the opportunity to be hired on permanently by a major DC hospital. You will enjoy hospital benefits and the opportunity for raises based on excellent attendance and performance. **Work Environment** This position is based in the Nutritional Services department of a hospital. Shifts are from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, with schedules released every two weeks. Weekend availability is required, and there are 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 Mar 26, 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.