Bedside Patient Meal Ordering Ambassador - Part time/Days

About the Role

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values—integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion—must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

The Dietetic Technician 1 assists the dietitian in the nutritional management and care of patients throughout the life cycle. The focus is to assure that meal selections are provided based on medical needs and individual patient preferences. Diet Technicians work on-site in call centers, directly with patients at the bedside, or as remote call center nutrition professionals.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates effective organizational skills in taking meal selections in an efficient manner by adhering to script and menu items.
  • Follows script and demonstrates appropriate customer service skills as evidenced by QI audits with >90% accuracy.
• Obtains meal selections from patients quickly and accurately while meeting standards for average call length or number of patients visited.
  • Processes meal selections in an efficient and accurate manner, achieving standard for average patient selection call length or patients visited per meal period, demonstrating ability to prioritize patient demands and excellent customer service skills.
• Demonstrates effective organizational and communication skills in properly adhering to responsibilities per task summary.
  • Properly adheres to task summary guidelines on timeframes and achieves standards in readiness to take patient meal calls or obtain meal selections.
• Demonstrates effective menu corrections to ensure patients receive meals incorporating personal preferences, dietary restrictions, and tray space guidelines. Provides patients with basic information on therapeutic restrictions when taking meal selections.
  • Accurately corrects patient menu selections via computerized diet system, taking into account therapeutic restrictions, space limitations, menu glossary guidelines, age-specific needs, and patient preferences with >90% accuracy on QI monitors.
• Continuing Education and professional development.
  • Participates in all in-service training programs to remain current in professional knowledge and clinical skills. Completes all scheduled in-services, obtaining >90% on evaluations.

Qualifications

• Education: High School diploma or equivalent. Some college coursework in healthcare, science, food service, nutrition, dietetics, or culinary arts program preferred.
• Experience: Experience in a hospital or healthcare setting preferred but not required.
• Licensure: None required. Nutrition and Dietetics Technician, Registered (NDTR/DTR) by Commission on Dietetic Registration preferred.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal (both oral and written) communication skills.
• Excellent customer service skills and telephone manner.
• Ability to learn and apply basic medical nutrition therapy and food service operations to ensure patients receive safe and appropriate food and nutrition services, demonstrated after orientation and training period via standard competency quiz.
• Ability to use computers for computerized diet order entry and menu systems.

Physical Demands

Position requires walking to geographically diverse patient units and the ability to sit and stand for periods of time. Requires use of a computer and telephone/headset for extended periods.