Full-Time, First Shift
The Hospital Food Service Unit plays a vital role in providing nutritious and well-balanced meals for patients, visitors, and staff. The unit is dedicated to ensuring that all meals are prepared in accordance with dietary guidelines, patient preferences, and specific medical needs. Key functions include meal planning, preparation, and delivery for various dietary requirements such as low-sodium, diabetic-friendly, and gluten-free options, all while maintaining the highest standards of food safety and hygiene.
The unit also manages the cafeteria and catering services for hospital events, offering a variety of menu options for staff and visitors. The team consists of skilled chefs, dietitians, and food service workers who work closely with healthcare professionals to ensure that the nutritional needs of patients are met to support their recovery and overall well-being.
This position supervises, coordinates, trains, and counsels employees.
Assists in maintaining and improving standards of food preparation and service.
Maintains high standards of safety and sanitation.
Ensures all general duties are performed in the assigned areas as required to ensure high quality customer service. In addition, performs a variety of cleaning tasks, maintaining clean and sanitary conditions in all Food Service area.
This position will have direct contact with both employees and visitors.
Requirements:
High school diploma or equivalent.
2 years of supervisory experience required.
SERV Safe Certification required or obtained with in 3 months of hire.
Benefits:
Tuition Assistance up to $6,000 annually
Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
5 days 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
Work Experience
Education
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.
