Salad-Dessert Worker (full time)
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The Salad-Dessert Worker prepares salads and desserts, serves on the patient tray assembly line, and assembles cold food for the Meals on Wheels program. The role maintains storage, preparation, and service areas in clean and sanitary condition. It is full-time, with shifts that can vary between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m., and requires every-other-weekend and every-other-holiday work.
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Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.
Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?
JOB TITLE: Salad-Dessert Worker
LOCATION: Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital, 555 N Duke Street, Lancaster PA
HOURS : Full time (shifts can vary between 5am-9pm). Every other weekend, every other holiday
Position Summary:
Prepares salads and/or desserts, serves on patient tray assembly line, and assembles cold food for Meals on Wheels program. Maintains salad dessert storage, preparation areas and equipment in orderly, clean, and sanitary condition.
Essential Functions:
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Performs variety of preparation tasks supply procurement, measurement, set-up associated with salad and dessert production. Prepares salads and desserts to standardized recipes and portions.
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Sets up the salad and dessert stations on the patient tray assembly line, assuring that all items required for meal service are readily available at these stations.
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Places indicated portion of appropriate item on tray in proper manner, adhering to appearance standards.
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Performs a variety of duties associated with backing up the salad and dessert stations on the patient tray assembly line.
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Keeps salad dessert storage, preparation and service areas in neat and clean condition.
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Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures
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Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization
Minimum Required Qualifications:
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HS diploma or equivalent
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One 1 year of quantity food production experience
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One 1 year of basic nutrition knowledge
Preferred Qualifications:
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Three 3 years of salad dessert and modified diets experience.
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Three 3 years of food handling and sanitation procedures experience.
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Three 3 years experience with safety rules and equipment operation.
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
Live Your Life's Work
We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.
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How this job compares
Set against the 437 open Food Service Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$16–17/hr222 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 24 open Food Service Worker jobs in Pennsylvania and 437 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- ARAMARK11 open
- ASM Global2 open
- Penn Medicine (this employer)2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Food Service Worker postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (43 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 89 of the 437 open Food Service Worker jobs (20%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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