Host/Hostess

At CHA, our food service department plays an important role in the satisfaction of our patients and colleagues. Food service team members enhance the patient stay by delivering three quality meals a day to the patient's bedside. Our Expressly for You program assigns patients a dedicated Food Service Host/Hostess to take care of all of their dining needs. Meal orders are taken bedside and entered electronically via a tablet computer. This system interfaces with the hospital medical system, allowing for our hosts/hostesses to understand each patient's unique dietary needs. In addition, the food service department operates a recently renovated cafeteria that caters to staff members and the general public including a salad bar with fresh and local ingredients, hot soups made fresh daily, a deli station, and an entr e station featuring favorite dishes. There is also a mix of snack and beverages, along with full daily breakfast offerings.

Job Duties:

Assist patients with making appropriate daily menu selections. Prepares, assembles, and delivers patient meal trays and snacks. Calculates modified diets/fluid restrictions, calories for meals. Stocks pantries on the nursing units with patient food. Performs assorted kitchen duties including sanitation, set up and completing temperature logs. Utilizes automated tablets to record and transfer meal selections to computer.

Qualifications:

Technical, Trade, or Vocational Degree in related field preferred. One year related experience preferred, successful completion of Sodexo Hostess Training Program and Exams. Average agility and long periods of walking, standing, bending, carrying, or pushing moderately heavy items (i.e. food carts).

In keeping with federal, state and local laws, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) policy forbids employees and associates to discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to establishing and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination. We are fully committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not tolerate unlawful discrimination in the recruitment, hiring, termination, promotion, salary treatment or any other condition of employment or career development. Furthermore, we will not tolerate the use of discriminatory slurs, or other remarks, jokes or conduct, that in the judgment of CHA, encourage or permit an offensive or hostile work environment.