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Dietary Aide/Asst

Newport News Behavioral Health Center
Newport, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/20/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/20/2026
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  • NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia
  • House Keeping, Nutrition, Support Staff
  • Evening
  • 343699
  • Newport News Behavioral Health Center

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Job Description

Responsibilities

Shift: 11am-7:30pm

Days: Monday-Friday (No Weekends)

Newport News Behavioral Health Center is a 108 bed intensive and highly structured residential treatment for psychiatric and behavioral health needs of adolescent males and females ages 7-17yrs. Newport News has an on-site certified school, therapists, and vocational programming. Newport News, VA is a beautiful seaside city, rich in maritime history and conveniently located to DC and other major North Eastern cities.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Performs Dietary Aide and Housekeeping duties within the 24-bed Acute Care facility. This hybrid position will, generally, perform serving of meals to staff and patients for lunch and dinner service and in between meal periods, perform cleaning of customer and patient-service areas.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Operates dishwashing machine in pulling, loading, and unloading positions.
  • Transports meals between kitchen and café and sets up/tears down the serving line.
  • Food handling qualified to safely serve meals to residents and staff
  • Maintains adequate stock of food and non-food supplies before and during meal service.
  • Cleans service areas and tables in Acute dining room between meals.
  • Washes and sanitizes pots, pans, utensils, and puts away when dry.
  • Maintains a clean and orderly dish room.
  • Practices kitchen safety rules.
  • Practices high standard for food service sanitation rules and regulations.
  • Maintains high standards of personal hygiene, food service safety and sanitation.
  • Assists in food preparation.
  • Maintains food and supplies in resident and staff snack areas.
  • Maintains stock and sanitation in dispenser machines.
  • Puts food and supplies away in storerooms, refrigerators, and freezer.
  • May train and orient new Food Service or Housekeeping Staff.
  • Clean building floors by sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, or vacuuming.
  • Empties and cleans all trash cans daily.
  • High and low dusts all furniture and surfaces daily.
  • Cleans and disinfects drinking fountains daily.
  • Clean windows, glass partitions, and doors daily.
  • Terminally-cleans patient bedroom areas, when needed.
  • Service, clean, and supply restrooms.
  • Checks and fills linen supplies.
  • Follow procedures for the use of chemical cleaners and power equipment, in order to prevent damage to floors and fixtures.
  • Follows infection control policies and procedures when handling infectious waste.

Newport News Behavioral Health offers comprehensive benefits for the position, such as:

  • Challenging and rewarding work environment
  • Competitive Compensation Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Plan
  • Generous Paid Time Off 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries

Qualifications

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

Previous experience in Food Service preferred; at least one year experience in Housekeeping.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

Avoid and Report Recruitment Scams

At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skill set and experience with the best possible career path at UHS

and our subsidiaries. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (e.g., Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. Our recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.

If you suspect a fraudulent job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, we encourage you to report such concerns to appropriate law enforcement. We encourage you to refer to legitimate UHS and UHS subsidiary career websites to verify job opportunities and not rely on unsolicited calls from recruiters.

Pay Transparency:

To encourage pay transparency, promote pay equity, and proactively address regulations, UHS and all our subsidiaries will comply with all applicable state or local laws or regulations which require employers to provide wage or salary range information to job applicants and employees. Salary offers may be based on key factors such as education and related experience.

Pay Transparency:

To encourage pay transparency, promote pay equity, and proactively address regulations, UHS and all our subsidiaries will comply with all applicable state or local laws or regulations which require employers to provide wage or salary range information to job applicants and employees. Salary offers may be based on key factors such as education and related experience.

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