Food Services Assistant-Utility

Job Summary:

Performs various food service tasks, including food preparation, serving, and transportation. Provides excellent customer service and may operate a cash register.

Education & Experience:

• Required: High school enrollment, diploma, or GED
• Preferred: Food service or customer service experience

Licensure & Certification:

• Not required

Key Responsibilities:

1. Ensures food quality, recipe compliance, and adherence to guidelines.
2. Meets productivity and service start-time schedules.
3. Minimizes waste and follows portion control guidelines.
4. Properly maintains and uses kitchen equipment and supplies.
5. Provides excellent customer service and meets quality standards.
6. Maintains high sanitation standards and follows safety regulations.
7. Completes all required training, including compliance and safety courses.
8. Participates in performance improvement initiatives and teamwork efforts.
9. Safely delivers, serves, and retrieves food trays while following regulations.
10. Interacts professionally with patients, visitors, and staff, resolving concerns as needed.
11. Follows hospital policies and contributes to a positive work environment.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Ability to follow instructions and adjust to department needs
• Strong customer service skills
• Comfortable interacting with patients in their rooms
• Available to work weekends and holidays
• Effective communication with patients, visitors, and staff

Work Environment:

• Work in kitchen and retail areas
• Exposure to wet floors and sharp equipment

Physical Requirements:

• Frequent standing, walking, bending, and reaching
• Lifting/pushing up to 50 lbs.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.