Dietary Aide (Full Time)

Serve/Food Preparation

• Serve on tray assembly line involving duties such as serving food, pouring soup, adding desserts, arranging trays, stacking trays on carts.
• Deliver dishes and trays at designated times and rooms.
• Conferring with patients in order to understand their food likes and dislikes.
• Accurately records meals served and monitor temperatures of food using appropriate logs.
• Serve meals using standards to maintain sanitation and quality.
• Review menu and assemble foods, supplies and equipment for daily food preparation.
• Follow standardized recipes.
• Aids in prep list, grab and go, and stocking the café and galley.
• Documents weekly thermometer calibration on appropriate logs.

Sanitation

• Ensure compliance with sanitation.
• Remove items from carts and trays, sort and rinse dishes and silverware, load, operate and unload the dishwasher, stack or store washed items as required.
• Clean dishwashing machine.
• Prepare, load and/or transport food carts.
• Clean carts on return to kitchen.
• Wash pots and pans.
• Perform heavy cleaning duties such as scraping, scouring, rinsing pots and pans, utensils and equipment.
• Collect, process and dispose of trash, can, bottles and similar debris and transport to disposal area.
• Completes cleaning duties as assigned on weekly and monthly cleaning list.

Departmental Support

• Aid in the care and maintenance of department facilities, equipment and supplies as directed.
• Store stock appropriately in order to maintain cleanliness and prevent food spoilage.
• Participates in meal planning.
• Reports any issues or problems that may arise to the Integrated Services Director /Dietary Supervisor.
• Aids in the counting of monthly inventory.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Must be able to read, write and speak fluent English.
• Experience: Previous experience in food preparation. Preferred: Culinary and/or food service experience in a health care facility. Familiar with clinical diets.
• Licenses/Certifications: ServSafe certified (within 1 year of employment).
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: High attention to detail. Able to read and interpret common recipes. Strong customer service skills. Preferred: Culinary and/or food service experience in a health care facility.
• Shifts & Schedule: Typical shifts 11am-7pm - Due to scheduling purposes, be flexible to work 7:30a-3:30p. Every other weekend and Holiday rotation. 40 hours per week. Full Time.