When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Welcome to The Herrick House, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health Continuing Care. Our teams of nurses, aides, food service, and environmental service employees work to create an environment that supports the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of our residents along with their families.
Job Description
Position Summary:
Responsible for preparing dining room for meals by setting tables, folding napkins, filling water glasses, providing and refilling condiments. Serves meals to residents in a courteous and professional manner and clears dishes from tables to kitchen. Removes soiled linens from tables and cleans and straightens dining room after meals.
Job Description:
Dining Room Responsibilities:
*Responsible for taking resident meal orders in a timely manner and with a positive attitude
*Prepare and set table to include tablecloth and napkin placement, setting silverware and dishes, maintaining and setting condiments
*Makes self knowledgeable of daily menu selections and provides this information to the resident
*Makes self knowledgeable of individual resident dietary restrictions
*Uses bus buckets to clear tables and transport dirty dishes to dishwashing station separating glasses, china and flatware in a timely manner
*Assures all chinaware is stacked and handled properly and carefully to avoid breakage
*Cleans and straightens dining room after meals in preparation for next meal by vacuuming, straightening chairs and tables, refilling condiments, folding napkins, wiping furniture down, etc.
*Restocks dining room linen supply daily and dining room wait station as assigned and empties trash as needed
*Assists with re-directing residents to their seats as needed
*Communicates to Director of Food Services dietary constraints not adhered to by residents, resident feedback and other pertinent information or observations regarding dietary and food service
Kitchen Area Responsibilities:
*Assists in maintaining a clean kitchen and dining areas to include cleaning coffee station, microwave, small refrigerators and straightening cabinets and flatware bin
*Responsible for picking up room service tray slips from kitchen door
*Responsible for filling room service tray order and placing outside kitchen door for pick-up
*Prepares salads on a daily basis and assists in the preparation of employee meals
*Completes and initials daily assignment sheets in a timely manner
*Restocks refrigerators in kitchen and dining room
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
What We Do
Beth Israel Lahey Health is a new, integrated system providing patients with better care wherever they are. Care informed by world-class research and education. We are doctors and nurses, technicians and social workers, innovators and educators, and so many others. All with a shared vision for what health care can and should be
