Intermountain Health
Nutrition Care Associate – Intermountain Health
Job Description
Performs a variety of food and guest service duties under general supervision. This position includes the following roles, which will vary by facility need: patient meal tray assembly and delivery, cashier, food assembly, food serving, and cleaning.
At Intermountain, we are not your standard institutional hospital food. Our hospitals employ professional chefs, culinary leaders, cooks, and nutrition care associates. We treat our hospitals and catering events like hotels, with restaurant‑quality cafés and a guest‑centric culture of hospitality for our patients and caregivers.
With high‑quality food as medicine, we bring new life into the world of hospital nutrition services and are making a difference in the lives of our patients every day. There are opportunities to cook in the following areas: retail, room service, catering, grill cook, or display cook.
Work Schedule
PRN, on call or as needed
Availability Needed: Sunday–Saturday to cover shifts
Shifts Assigned: 6 am–2:30 pm, 2 pm–10:30 pm
Benefits Eligible: No
Essential Functions
Delivers and presents trays to patients using the standard process.
Performs food preparation functions according to system standards (following standard recipe, assembling ingredients); examples include preparing salads, sandwiches, vegetables, and fruit.
Follows standardized practices relating to Nutrition Services (e.g., dining experience, meal delivery, maintaining required stock levels).
Performs housekeeping functions including cleaning and sanitizing surfaces, floor care, and equipment (oven, fryer, hoods).
Performs accurate cash/credit transactions according to system standards and independently resolves basic customer service issues.
Skills
Active Listening
Coordinating tasks with others
Guest focused
Communicates clearly
Attention to detail
Qualifications
Food Handler Permit or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work.
One or more year of experience in the food service industry preferred.
Demonstrated ability to work with modified diets (preferred).
Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred).
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and assess customer needs.
Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy; this includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set‑up and use.
Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment; will also work on hands and knees and bend to set‑up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment, typically including items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.
Location Intermountain Health Cedar City Hospital, Cedar City, Utah
Salary $17.25 – $22.43 per hour
Benefits We care about your well‑being – mind, body, and spirit – and provide a generous benefits package that covers a wide array of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
Equal Opportunity Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Additional Information All positions subject to close without notice.
Job Details
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Health Care Provider
Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
#J-18808-Ljbffr
At Intermountain, we are not your standard institutional hospital food. Our hospitals employ professional chefs, culinary leaders, cooks, and nutrition care associates. We treat our hospitals and catering events like hotels, with restaurant‑quality cafés and a guest‑centric culture of hospitality for our patients and caregivers.
With high‑quality food as medicine, we bring new life into the world of hospital nutrition services and are making a difference in the lives of our patients every day. There are opportunities to cook in the following areas: retail, room service, catering, grill cook, or display cook.
Work Schedule
PRN, on call or as needed
Availability Needed: Sunday–Saturday to cover shifts
Shifts Assigned: 6 am–2:30 pm, 2 pm–10:30 pm
Benefits Eligible: No
Essential Functions
Delivers and presents trays to patients using the standard process.
Performs food preparation functions according to system standards (following standard recipe, assembling ingredients); examples include preparing salads, sandwiches, vegetables, and fruit.
Follows standardized practices relating to Nutrition Services (e.g., dining experience, meal delivery, maintaining required stock levels).
Performs housekeeping functions including cleaning and sanitizing surfaces, floor care, and equipment (oven, fryer, hoods).
Performs accurate cash/credit transactions according to system standards and independently resolves basic customer service issues.
Skills
Active Listening
Coordinating tasks with others
Guest focused
Communicates clearly
Attention to detail
Qualifications
Food Handler Permit or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work.
One or more year of experience in the food service industry preferred.
Demonstrated ability to work with modified diets (preferred).
Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred).
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and assess customer needs.
Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy; this includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set‑up and use.
Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment; will also work on hands and knees and bend to set‑up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment, typically including items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.
Location Intermountain Health Cedar City Hospital, Cedar City, Utah
Salary $17.25 – $22.43 per hour
Benefits We care about your well‑being – mind, body, and spirit – and provide a generous benefits package that covers a wide array of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
Equal Opportunity Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Additional Information All positions subject to close without notice.
Job Details
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Health Care Provider
Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
#J-18808-Ljbffr