Dietary Aide

About the role

Essex Meadows is recruiting for a hospitality focused dietary aide to join our culinary team. This role provides full-scope, hands-on serving functions within the skilled nursing facility.

Responsibilities

• Prepares special feedings, nourishments, and snacks as ordered for service, including daily garnish.
• Verifies ordered food items needed for meals are available and ready for service, including daily garnish.
• Covers, labels, dates and stores all food items.
• Maintains a well-stocked kitchen while rotating stock.
• Accurately sets up meal trays and dining room tables per tray ticket.
• Checks for accuracy of plated foods at time of service, adjusting as necessary.
• Clears dishes from tables during and after meal service.
• Returns soiled trays and service ware to dishwashing area via closed food cart.
• Removes and replaces soiled linens after each meal and delivers to laundry in proper bag supplied by laundry.
• Maintains a sanitary work area by following daily cleaning schedules and thoroughly cleaning and sanitizing work area after each meal.
• Attends in-service training and education sessions as assigned.
• Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by management.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand and follow instructions in English and communicate effectively.
• Experience waiting tables in a hotel, restaurant or club with fine dining preferred; will train.
• Ability to interpret and explain menu, refer, or answer questions, coordinate meal service process and understands requests.
• Ability to work in close cooperation with residents, guests, visitors, families, management and peers.