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Food Service Worker, Per Diem

UCLA Health Careers
Los Angeles, CA Per Diem
POSTED ON 4/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/30/2025
Description

As a valued member of the Food & Nutrition Services team, you will play a key role in ensuring patients receive safe, nutritious, and timely meals. This position supports tray assembly, meal delivery, sanitation, and patient interaction, helping maintain a clean and organized food service environment in compliance with health and safety standards.

Responsibilities:

  • Set up assigned tray assembly station with all necessary items including dishes, paper supplies, food, condiments, and utensils

  • Operate all tray assembly stations as assigned

  • Store and rotate food and supplies according to departmental guidelines

  • Follow proper food handling and sanitation procedures at all times

  • Maintain a clean, sanitary, and organized workstation

  • Present menus to patients and assist with menu selections as needed

  • Assemble and distribute meals accurately based on the diet master list

  • Collect meal trays after service and transport food carts to designated areas

  • Deliver snacks to patients per schedule or request

  • Ensure all food service equipment and surfaces are cleaned and sanitized

  • Support trayline operations as needed throughout shifts

  • Assist in the dishroom, potroom, and perform general housekeeping tasks

Salary Range: $20.54-$20.54/hour

This is an "as needed" per diem position; schedule and working hours will vary. May convert to Career

Senate Bill 525 was signed into law by Governor Newsom in October 2023. Starting June 1, 2024, SB525 sets a new $23 minimum wage for nonexempt healthcare workers and raises the exempt employee salary threshold to $1,380/week (equivalent to $5,980/month or $71,760/year).
1. As defined under SB525, healthcare workers are defined as employees who are involved in the provision of “health care services,” which means “patient care-related services including nursing; caregiving; services provided by medical residents, interns, or fellows; technical and ancillary services; janitorial work; housekeeping; grounds keeping; guard duties; business office clerical work; food services; laundry; medical coding and billing; call center and warehouse work; scheduling; and gift shop work; but only where such services support patient care”.
2. Employees (career, contract, student, per diem) in the UCLA Health medical facilities (e.g. Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Santa Monica UCLA Hospital, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, etc.) meet these criteria.

Salary : $21 - $71,760

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