Room Service Assistant - Sanford Medical Center - FT
Fargo, NDFull-time$15–23/hrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Room Service Assistant performs food-service duties for patients at Sanford Medical Center Fargo. The role serves meals and snacks, supports patient meal ordering, processes telephone orders, and coordinates with nursing and nutrition staff. It also maintains floor supplies, records meal intake and calorie counts, and follows HACCP guidelines. The position is full-time, with day shifts and a minimum of 64 hours every two weeks, including every other weekend and holiday.
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Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.
Facility: Sanford Med Ctr Fargo Location: Fargo, ND Address: 5225 23rd Ave S, Fargo, ND 58104, USA Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts Job Schedule: Full time Weekly Hours: 32.00 Salary Range: $15.00 - $23.00
Department Details
Candidate will be required to work a minimum of 64 hours every two weeks including every other weekend and holiday. Weekday shifts vary and shift time is 7am-330pm. This position qualifies for PTO and health benefits.
Job Summary
Performs a variety of duties involved with food service for patients. Serves meals and snacks to patients in a professional manner. Ensures rotation of floor supplies and maintains supplies up to PAR (Periodic Automatic Replenishment) levels. Delivers appropriate room service menus to patients, instructing patients on meal ordering systems. Assesses patients’ ability to utilize the meal order system. Communicates effectively, timely and often with nursing staff, nutrition techs, dietitians and call center staff. Uses computerized diet sheets, accesses patient computer system, and retrieves completed meals from patients' rooms and records intake and calorie count information. Maintains compliance with all Hazardous Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) guidelines.
Obtains, transcribes and processes meal orders from patients and visitors over the telephone, verifying that meal orders meet diet order parameters. Provides appropriate menu for diet. Possesses excellent customer service skills continuously. Displays listening skills and effectively communicates with co-workers, supervisors and nursing staff. Establishes effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisors and nursing staff. Evaluates and maintains quality control standards.
Qualifications
Direct customer service experience preferred. Previous food service experience and/or work with therapeutic diets preferred.
On-the-job training provided.
Benefits
Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .
Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to [email protected] .
Sanford has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.
Req Number: R-0278480 Job Function: Facilities and General Services Featured: No
How this job compares
Set against the 3,069 open Food Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$15–23/hr
- US median$17–19/hr1,311 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $19/hr, is 7% above the US median midpoint ($18/hr) — in the middle half of Food Service hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 11 open Food Service jobs in North Dakota and 3,069 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Food Service postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (413 postings).
- Education
- 14 of the 3,069 open Food Service jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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