**Food Service Worker - 1st Shift** **Job Summary:** The Food Services Worker plays a vital role in delivering high-quality nutritional care to patients. This position involves assembling and customizing patient meal trays based on diet orders and preferences, ensuring timely delivery, and maintaining accurate documentation. The role requires working in a refrigerated environment and providing exceptional customer service to patients and staff. **Key Responsibilities:** + Assemble and prepare patient meal trays for lunch and dinner according to diet orders and selections. + Customize trays with requested items before delivery to patient care units. + Set up food service stations for breakfast and assist with tray assembly. + Deliver meal trays and snacks to patients, replace missing items, and offer alternatives for regular diets. + Refill hot beverages and condiments from hospitality carts. + Communicate with nursing staff regarding refused trays or patients not in rooms; document food and liquid intake for selected patients. + Retrieve trays from patient rooms, ensuring no personal items remain. + Strip food carts and trays, sort and rinse dishes and silverware for washing. + Deliver menus to patients, explain the menu process, assist with selections, and recommend alternatives. + Complete host round sheets and return menus and documentation to the Hospitality Service Office. + Monitor new admissions or diet changes, deliver updated menus and diet awareness cards. + Process requests for NOW trays, discharged trays, guest trays, and isolation trays, securing nursing staff sign-off. + Maintain inventory and stock hospitality carts and baskets; deliver bulk nourishments as needed. + Provide clerical support, including answering phones and following up on requests. + Generate standard computer reports and enter patient selections for therapeutic diets. + Attend and assist in departmental in-services. **Essential Skills:** + Food preparation and volume cooking experience + Strong customer service skills + Knowledge of recipes, measuring, and cutting techniques + Previous experience in foodservice or as a line cook **Additional Qualifications:** + Excellent communication and interpersonal skills + Ability to work in a fast-paced environment + Attention to detail and accuracy in documentation **Why Join Us?** This is a **contract-to-hire** opportunity with the potential to become a permanent employee at a major DC hospital. Permanent employees enjoy comprehensive hospital benefits and opportunities for raises based on attendance and performance. **Work Environment:** + Location: Nutritional Services Department, Hospital Setting + Shift: 6:30 AM – 6:30 PM + Schedule: Released every two weeks + Weekend availability required **Job Type & Location** This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Washington, DC. **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 Jan 9, 2026. **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.