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Food Service Worker I

Job Details:

In-person
$21.26 - $23.06 / hour
Full-time
Temporary
Experienced
Zone: Eastern Rural Zone
Location: Dr. G.B. Cross Memorial Hospital
Food Service Worker
Food Services
Temporary Full-Time (until October 23, 2026, with the possibility of extension)
NAPE HS
22917RP1

Hours: 75 bi-weekly (8 & 12 hour rotating shifts; days, evenings, weekends)

Salary: CG-20 (CAD21.26 - CAD23.06 per hour)

Competition Number: VAC0028158

Posted Date: 2026-08-20

Closing Date: 2026-08-27

Job Summary
The Food Service Worker I in Food Services is responsible for preparing, assembling, and serving meals to patients/residents/customers. This may include distributing and collecting meal trays from floors, preparing vegetables, snacks, or other nourishments, ensuring kitchenettes and food stations are clean, sanitized, and stocked, performing cashier duties if applicable and other related duties as required.

Job Demands
By applying for this job, you acknowledge an understanding that regular requirements and demands of this job include (but are not limited to):
Constantly lifts food, supplies and products up to 10 lbs. and occasional lifts/pushes/pulls food products and supplies between 20-50 lbs. requiring assistance from others.
Regularly requires repetitive neck flexion, reaching, bilateral handling, body movements including bending, kneeling, and stretching.
Constantly requires standing and walking.
Constantly requires visual and auditory concentration, and repetitive tasks, higher than normal levels of attentiveness and alertness for the health and safety of others.

Job Qualifications
Graduation from high school or equivalent.
Knowledge of basic food safety and sanitation would be an asset.
Demonstrated ability to interact and communicate effectively.
Demonstrated strong customer service skills.
A satisfactory record of work performance is required.

Competition Number: VAC0028158
Company Website: https://NLHealthServices.ca/
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About NL Health Services

About NL Health Services

If you come from away, you’ll discover just how special Newfoundland and Labrador is. If you're a local, you already know this. It’s our people. It’s our culture. It’s our stories (and oh do we love our stories).

If you’re looking to grow your health career in a place with adventure around each corner and a strong sense of community, then let’s put on the kettle and have a chat. Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services might just be the perfect fit for you.

Why join NL Health Services?

There are many reasons. You will put your skills to great use in a unique and remarkable part of the world, be part of interdisciplinary and talented health-care teams and have access to state-of-the-art equipment and modern facilities.

  • We also offer incentives for local talent, those looking to return home and those new to our province.
  • Competitive remuneration and attractive benefits package.
  • Generous vacation packages and paid time off.
  • Full-time and part-time pension plans options.
  • Health insurance, dental and long-term disability plans.
  • Financial incentives and relocation support.
  • Student placements and clinical residencies.
  • Remote work options available.
  • Fast pathways to nursing for out-of-province applicants.

With a rich and unique culture, and tremendous natural beauty, Newfoundland and Labrador is an ideal place to call home, with a growing diverse population and among the safest places in the world to live.

About NL Health Services

At NL Health Services, we are responsible for delivering health and community services to more than 510,550 people living in Newfoundland and Labrador. Our team consists of more than 22,000 dedicated health workers who are committed to providing the best care in communities across the province, in five geographical areas.

The provincial health authority was created in April 2023, following recommendations from Health Accord NL, and brings together five former separate health entities. Our goal is to improve the health of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador and to create a more integrated, accessible, technologically enhanced, equitable and sustainable health system.

We know that it is the people – employees, physicians and volunteers – that together make NL Health Services a great place to work. We believe that every person carries valuable knowledge, experience and perspective, and it is in this diversity that we find strength. At NL Health Services, we embrace the distinct and complementary characteristics of all our members as we seek to eliminate health disparities by providing fair, equitable and quality health care to all patients, residents and clients.

If your passion is to provide extraordinary health care to the residents of the communities of Newfoundland and Labrador, we want to hear from you.

Come, work with us, and be extraordinary every day!

For more information, please visit: https://nlhealthservices.ca/.

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