Food Service Worker Full Time

Forefront Healthcare is unique, experienced, and specialized in serving the continuum of care. With finely tailored, high-quality culinary and support services, Forefront helps its partners elevate the patient and resident experience.

Come Build your career with Forefront Healthcare today!!!

We are growing quickly and right now is a great time to be part of our team! We are looking for a Food Service Worker located in Troy, AL

WE OFFER AMAZING BENEFITS!  PTO, Vacation time, Holidays, Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, 401(k), Employee Assistance Program, and much more! 

Come join a growing company and work with your incredible team!

Our shifts are 6:00am - 2:30pm & 11am - 7:30pm 

Position Summary

The Food Service Worker provides food preparation and delivery services to include a variety of specialized duties related to the receipt, interpretation, and follow-through of patient diet orders.

Responsible for the delivery and collection of trays to and from patients. Ensures that nutrition care diet orders are provided to the patient by offering appropriate menu selections.

Acts as a liaison between the patient and the kitchen, communicates all patient food needs to the appropriate area of the department, assists the clinical staff in ensuring all patient basic nutrition care needs are met, maintains cleanliness of the kitchen and other assigned food and nutrition areas, receives cash from customers as payment for goods or services performs retail café duties ensuring service and merchandising standards by providing customers with prompt service, quality beverages and products and contribute to a friendly, upbeat and clean atmosphere.

Maintains friendly, efficient, attitude towards customers, co-workers, patients, and visitors.

Sets up and maintains assigned work area in a neat, clean, and orderly manner to facilitate efficiency and ensure food safety.

Prepares beverages and food items to standard.

Performs cleaning tasks in accordance with the duty rosters and cleaning standards and works as a store team member.

Delivers patient trays during meal service.

Delivers nourishments and/or snacks to patients as ordered by physician/dietitian in a timely manner.

Visits patients to introduce the services of the Food and Nutrition Services Department. May obtain food preferences/dislikes from patient and/or family members.

Inventories and re-stocks pantries, refrigerator, and freezers on assigned unit(s). Maintains temperature logs for unit refrigerators and freezers.

Follows all cash handling procedures and policies.

Cleans tables, counters and various types of retail and kitchen equipment and sweeps and mops floors.

Welcomes and connects with every customer.

Records all appropriate meal information for volunteers, employees, and physicians. Submits all information to the designated person at the end of each shift.

Operates cash register by keying the correct items and ensuring the correct tender is collected.

Two years’ experience preferred in healthcare food service setting preferred. Ability to communicate (both verbal and written) effectively. 

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed, but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to work well under time constraints.

Hourly Wage: $10.75-$11.75 an hour

Job Type: Full-time

Must be fully vaccinated