Dietary Aide

Bring comfort to the table. As a Dietary Aide (3-10hour shifts), you’ll help serve meals that support healing and well-being for our patients, residents, and staff.

Responsibilities

• Prepare meals, snacks, and beverages following specific guidelines.
• Serve meals, ensuring food safety and hygiene procedures are always followed.
• Take inventory of kitchen supplies and food items.
• Clarify unclear or missing diet orders with nursing staff.
• Assist with room delivery service as needed, including assembling patient trays, loading carts, and delivering meals to patients and residents.
• Check accuracy of meal tray against patient and resident menu selections.
• Assist cooks and other staff with dishes as needed throughout shift.
• Utilize good communication skills to maintain positive relationships with patients, residents, providers, co-workers, and other sections in the organization and with other facilities in the community.
• Maintain a professional, organized, and clean working environment by following organizational policies, guidelines, and safety standards.
• Coordinate with medical staff and other departments to ensure efficiency as needed.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings and other assigned meetings.
• Adhere to accreditation and compliance standard guidelines.
• Complete work assignments in a timely manner.
• Assist visitors with directions whenever requested.
• Always introduce self to patients, residents, families, and visitors when appropriate.
• Report on safety hazards as appropriate.
• Replenish supplies as needed.
• Follow all infection control practices including hand washing techniques, Standard Precautions, and Isolation Precautions.
• Maintain set quality standards when performing job duties.
• Observe safety precautions.
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Read and understand equipment operation manuals.
• Cooperate with other personnel to achieve departmental objectives, maintain good employee relations, and interdepartmental objectives.
• Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, training, current literature, in-service meetings, and workshops; show responsibility for own professional practice and ongoing education and learning.
• Assist in keeping kitchen and other dietary areas clean, organized, and well-stocked throughout shift.
• Keep all temperature and supplement logs up to date as required.
• Perform other duties, as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Exceptional knowledge of dietary terminology and processes or the ability to learn and retain.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Physical Requirements and Conditions

• Prolonged periods of standing.
• Light to moderate work with 50 pounds maximum weight to lift and carry.
• Position requires reaching, bending, stooping, and handling objects with hands and/or fingers, talking and/or hearing, and seeing.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Paid Personal Leave (PPL): begins accruing on your first day and can be used after 90 days of employment.
• Health insurance: coverage begins the first day of the month following hire.
• Dental insurance (Delta Dental): begins the first day of the month following hire.
• Vision insurance.
• Life insurance: $50,000 coverage begins the first day of the month following hire.
• 100% employer-paid disability and accident coverage.
• Bereavement leave.
• Opportunities for growth and professional development (including scholarships and training).

Pay

$16.00/hour to start depending on experience.