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Food Service Attendant - Nutrition Services, Per Diem

Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Lebanon, NH Per Diem
POSTED ON 7/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/31/2026
Overview
Prepares, assembles, serves, and delivers food, and performs sanitation activities in assigned areas: patient area for patient tray assembly and sanitation; patient tray delivery and menu collection; or the detail dining areas. May operate dishwasher or assists with washing/sterilizing dishes. Performs cleaning and sanitizing duties.

Responsibilities
  • Patient Tray Assembly and Sanitation:
  • Plates food items and assembles patient meal trays. Assembles add-on sheet items and tube feeding items following proper procedures.
  • Prepares food items for all areas, following standardized recipes and production methods. Prepares patient nourishment's and write-ins as tallied following proper production procedures.
  • Ensures that area and equipment are maintained up to accepted standards and quality.
  • Loads and operates dish washing equipment. Takes dish machine temperatures daily.
  • Takes pot machine temperatures daily and pH level of sanitizer.
  • Performs assigned cleaning functions, ensuring that areas and equipment are maintained up to accepted standards of quality.
  • Operates floor washing machine
  • Maintains and properly stocks all necessary food and supply items.
  • Labels and dates all necessary food and supply items.
  • Uses and mixes chemicals in a safe manner. Labels all secondary bottles.
  • Patient Tray Delivery and Menu Collection:
  • Assists with tray delivery and retrieval.
  • Collects patient menus on assigned units.
  • Assists patients with menu completion using hard copy menus or laptops.
  • Performs inventory of food and supplies for assigned units. Assembles these supplies and delivers to the assigned unit.
  • Takes temperatures of assigned refrigerators and freezers and documents as required
  • Retail Dining Areas:
  • Performs procedures in the retail areas according to all State and hospital guidelines, including serving, and/or portioning of food, preparing items to order, informing/directing customers as needed.
  • Takes refrigeration temperatures, hot and cold food temperatures to assure proper storage and serving temperatures.
  • Cleans assigned areas/equipment following institutional standards.
  • Orders, collects and restocks food supplies in assigned areas.
  • Displays and labels food items using menu boards and POS signage.
  • Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications
  • High school diploma (or GED) strongly preferred.
  • Ability to read and write required.
  • Prior satisfactory work experience is desired.

Required Licensure/Certifications

  • None

  • Area of Interest: Service
  • Pay Range: $17.00/Hr. - $26.35/Hr.
  • FTE/Hours per pay period: .01 hrs/per week (per diem/temp)
  • Shift: Day
  • Job ID: 35319

Dartmouth Health offers a total compensation package that includes a comprehensive selection of benefits. Our Core Benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, paid time off, and retirement plans. Click here for information on these benefits and more: Benefits | DHMC and Clinics Careers

Dartmouth Health is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Salary : $17 - $26

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