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Nutrition Care Associate Barista

Intermountain Health
Salt Lake City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Jul 2025
šŸ’° $44,000/yr($34,000/yr – $44,000/yr)

About the role

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 like hotels, with restaurant-quality cafes and a guest-centric culture of hospitality for our patients and caregivers.

With high-quality food as medicine, we bring a new life into the world of hospital nutrition services and are making a difference in the lives of our patients every day. We not only care for patients, but we also care for and about our colleagues, which is why we offer many culinary and healthcare career opportunities!

Work Schedule

Essential Functions

  • Maintains customer satisfaction, service, and identify problem resolutions independently, and escalating as necessary
  • Ensuring compliance with provincial or territorial food safety regulations
  • Troubleshooting any problems with equipment and scheduling repairs when needed
  • Knows menu, portion, and price prior to meal service to provide appropriate service to customers, including answering questions and serving food.
  • Sets up and services catered functions according to requested level and scope of service.
  • Understands modified diets and prepares modified recipes using appropriate techniques.
  • Follows HACCP standards.
  • Delivers and presents trays to patients using the standard process.
  • Performs food preparation functions according to system standards and timely production (following standard recipe, assembling ingredients) for example, prepares salads, sandwiches, vegetables, and fruit.
  • Follows standardized practices relating to Nutrition Services (e.g. dining experience, meal delivery, maintaining required stock levels, disposing of expired ingredients)
  • 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
  • Food & Beverage

Qualifications

  • Food Handler Permit (as required by State) or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work.
  • One or more year of experience working as a Barista preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to work with modified diets (preferred)
  • Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred)

Physical Requirements:

  • Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to 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 includes 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 Primary Childrens Hospital

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

36

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.Ā 

$17.25 - $22.43

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