Skip to content

Main menu. Press enter or space keys to expands and escape key to collapse

General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Will vary, including weekdays, weekends and holidays per departmental needs
Posted Date
04/29/2025
Salary Range: $20.54 - 20.54 Hourly
Employment Type
6 - Staff: Per Diem
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
24036

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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.

Job Qualifications

  • Previous experience in food service, including tray assembly and meal delivery
  • Ability to read, write, and follow oral and written instructions in English to accurately match menu selections with food items
  • Ability to work efficiently as part of a team in a fast-paced trayline environment
  • Basic math skills to perform calculations without a calculator
  • General understanding of therapeutic diets and dietary restrictions
  • Strong interpersonal skills to interact professionally with patients, co-workers, supervisors, and medical staff
  • Ability to comply with departmental dress code and hygiene standards
  • Physical ability to stand for long periods and repeatedly stretch, bend, push, walk, lift, and reach throughout the shift
  • Ability to lift and maneuver heavy carts safely
  • Willingness to attend departmental training and development sessions

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.