**Employment Type:** Part time **Shift:** Day Shift **Description:** Come join the Food & Nutrition team at Mercy Medical Center, part of Trinity Health Of New England! We are a member of the nationwide Trinity Health family, bringing compassionate care to our communities. **Position Purpose:** Prepares and make salads, sandwiches, and other cold food items for patient feeding, special functions, and to supplement cafeteria needs. Portions dessert items for patient feeding. Maintains all work areas and related storage areas in a safe, sanitary condition. **What you will do:** + Prepares salads, sandwiches, and other cold food side items for patient feeding using approved recipes and procedures including modified diet recipes. + Assists in the preparation of cafeteria salad type items as required. + Prepares special function salad and other cold food items including meat, cheese, and fruit platters. + Assures that all products prepared in the salad area meet quality standards. + Maintains productivity to assure that food service needs are met. + Cleans and preps all produce items for use in salad area, cafeteria, and Café 299. + Prepares sliced meats and salad mixes for Cafeteria, Café 299, and patient feeding. + Delivers meal trays to patient rooms. + Maintains salad area and related storage areas including salad walk-in refrigerator in a safe, sanitary condition. + Follows safe food handling procedures to assure food wholesomeness at all times. **Working Conditions:** + Requires prolonged standing, walking, or other constant physical movements. + Requires frequent lifting of items weighing up to 50 lbs. + Requires working with knives and automatic slicing and chopping machines. + Requires going in and out of walk-in refrigerators frequently. **Minimum Qualifications** **:** + Ability to read and follow directions. Requires a minimum of six months but less than one year of experience on this or related jobs. **Position Highlights and Benefits:** + Per Diem – Day Shift + Our Mission and Core Values + Career growth and advancement potential + Award-winning Patient Access Department **Ministry/Facility Information** Trinity Health Of New England is an integrated health care delivery system that is comprised of world-class providers and facilities dedicated to full spectrum preventative, acute, and post-acute care. We aim to deliver top level care to increase our community's overall health at lower costs. While we serve nearly 3 million people, we are proud to be a part of a national system that focuses on putting our patients first and having the best colleagues to do so. **Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion** Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions. Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity. EOE including disability/veteran