**Job Title: Food Services Worker** **Job Description** Join our team as a Food Services Worker, where you will play a crucial role in assembling and customizing patient meal trays based on dietary orders and preferences. You will deliver and retrieve meal trays, ensuring patients receive the highest level of service and care within a refrigerated environment. **Responsibilities** + Assemble tray carts for patient lunch and dinner meals using dietary information prior to re-thermalization. + Set up patient food service stations for breakfast trays according to tally sheets or established par levels. + Deliver meal trays and snacks to patients, replace missing items, and offer alternative selections for regular diets. + Document food and liquid intake for selected patients and inform nursing staff of refused trays or missing items. + Retrieve meal trays from patient rooms, strip food carts, sort and rinse dishes for washing. + Deliver menus to patients, explain the menu process, and assist with meal selections, noting proper condiments. + Check for new admissions or diet changes and deliver menus and diet awareness cards to patients. + Complete requests for NOW trays/meals, discharged trays, guest trays, and isolation trays with nursing staff sign-off. + Inventory and stock hospitality carts and baskets, deliver bulk nourishments as requested. + Provide clerical support to the Hospitality Service Office, including answering the telephone and following up on requests. + Produce standard computer reports, enter patient selections, and manage special food preferences for therapeutic diets. + Attend and assist in departmental in-services. **Essential Skills** + Experience in food preparation and volume cooking. + Customer service experience. + Proficiency in recipe measuring and cutting. + Knowledge of foodservice operations. + Experience as a line cook. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Prep experience in food preparation and food service. + Excellent customer service skills. **Why Work Here?** This contract-to-hire position offers the opportunity to be permanently hired by a major DC hospital, providing hospital benefits. There is potential for raises based on excellent attendance and performance. **Work Environment** The position is located at a hospital within the Nutritional Services department. Shifts are from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, with schedules released every two weeks. Weekend availability is required. The work environment demands adherence to hospital standards and involves direct interaction with patients and hospital staff. **Job Type & Location** This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Washington, District of Columbia. **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $18.00 - $18.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Washington,DC. **Application Deadline** This position is anticipated to close on Aug 19, 2025. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.