Food Services Worker
Full-Time 1st Shift
Food Service
The Food & Nutrition Services team at Baptist Health Lexington playsan important rolein supporting patient health and comfort through high-quality meal service. Room Service Associates serve as the primary contact between patients and the food service department, ensuring that every meal is delivered with care, compassion, and accuracy. Whetherassistingpatients with menu selections or delivering trays to the bedside, this role is key to creating a positive patient experience.
The Food Service Workerprepares and serves meals, assembles patient trays,maintainsclean kitchen and dining areas, and supports safe food handling. This role follows all food safety, sanitation, and hospital policies while providing excellent service to patients, visitors, and staff.
Prepare, assemble, and serve meals for patients, visitors, and retail customers following standardized recipes and dietary guidelines.
Wash, sanitize, and store dishes, cookware, utensils, and kitchen equipment.
Transport patient meal carts and collect soiled trays from nursing units.
Operate kitchen equipment safely andmaintaina clean, organized work environment.
Follow food safety, sanitation, infection prevention, and workplace safety standards.
Assistwith nourishments,special events, and other food serviceneeds asassigned.
Support quality service by minimizing food waste and promoting patient satisfaction.
Perform routine and deep cleaning of kitchen areas, including dishwashing equipment and waste disposal areas.
Requirements:
Food Handlers card or Serv Safe certificate isrequiredwithin 6 months
Benefits: Full-Time 32 weekly hours (0.8 FTE) - 40 weekly hours (1.0 FTE)
Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
Life Insurance
Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
Identity Theft Protection
Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
PTO Sell Back Program
Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
Retirement with Company Match
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
