Food Service Assistant

Lakeshore Talent
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Lakeshore Talent is seeking experienced Food Service team members for immediate openings on one of Chicago’s leading hospitals.
This is a temp to hire role! . This is a great opportunity to get your foot in the door with a leader in Healthcare!
Pay: $15-$17 per hour
Full time hours!
Schedule: Looking for people to work between 5 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
Work 3 morning shifts, a day off and then work 2-3 evening shifts a day off, think of it as opening shift and closing shift.
Every other weekend off!
Food Service Team Members:
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Prepares, portions, and serves food for patients/ patient families, external retail customers, hospital employees and catering customers in the assigned unit.
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Gathers, distributes, and unloads needed supplies and equipment to complete tasks and maintains inventories of these supplies as part of daily work assignment.
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Sets up, supplies, and dismantles serving stations and organizes food supplies, dishes, utensils, and disposables according to department procedures (Retail serving lines and Central Kitchen patient tray line).
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Handles food safely following department and healthcare regulatory agency guidelines and standards for the preparation, heating/cooling, labeling, and safe storage of food products.
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Takes and records temperatures according to directions in order to maintain safe food holding and storage temperatures.
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Assembles, checks accuracy, and delivers meal/late trays as assigned (Central Kitchen).
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Cleans, arranges, and sanitizes work, service, and dining areas and cleans equipment frequently using approved chemicals as established by the department and healthcare regulatory agencies.
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Participates in recipe standardization.
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Fills ice containers, maintains required sanitation of ice machines, scoops and buckets.
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Arrange chairs in dining areas; make sure all furniture is thoroughly cleaned and in its proper position.
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Performs dish room duties such as transporting soiled items, dismantling food carts, scraping, sorting silverware, racking, loading/unloading dish machine, re-supplying work unit areas in the kitchen, dining, and service areas as assigned.
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Disposes of waste in containers or disposals
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Follows hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
Required skills & abilities:
- High School Diploma or GED
- 1-2 years of recent food services experience
- ServSafe Food Handler Certification
- Able to perform as an active team player
- Good interpersonal skills, outgoing personality
- Able to demonstrate basic math skills
- Must be able to lift 30 – 50 pounds and push or pull a cart
- Work demands 100% walking and/or standing; work duties may demand standing in place for extended periods, stooping, bending, lifting, pushing and pulling.
- Work environment involves the ability to tolerate temperature and climate changes (hot, humid, cold, steam, wet); requires individuals to move in and out of refrigerated areas and work in a dish room operation which is a warm, wet and noisy area.
Must be able to provide either proof of Covid vaccination or an acceptable accommodation form.
Must be able to provide proof of vaccination for the following: TDap, Varicella, TB Test, MMR and Flu Shot