Nutrition Assistant II

About the role

The Nutrition Assistant II position at CHI Health Saint Elizabeth involves assisting in delivering high-quality, safe, and efficient food services to patients and staff. Key responsibilities include preparing and serving meals, maintaining cleanliness, ensuring food safety compliance, and interacting with patients regarding dietary needs.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and serves food within guidelines of menu and dietary requirements using required kitchen utensils and equipment.
• Maintains knowledge of recipe ingredients to respond to food allergy questions or requests.
• Follows healthcare foodservice industry standards, regulations, guidelines and procedures including monitoring and maintaining food temperatures during cooking, holding, and storage processes.
• Avoids cross-contamination of foods and adheres to personal hygiene requirements. Maintains proper labeling of food products and ensures storage of food equipment, and machinery per regulations and facility guidelines.
• Follows organizational standards and guidelines for a high quality patient and customer experience. Ensures proper meal portioning and an aesthetically pleasing presentation. Provides service recovery efforts and escalates to leadership as needed.
• May be responsible for one or more of the following:
• Following therapeutic diet modifications and guidelines including allergy restrictions for all patient meal trays, nourishment, snacks and supplements
• Printing, providing and following production tool and/or electronic meal tallies/differentials for food preparation
• Explaining basic therapeutic diet orders and menus and responding to questions from patients and family members. Escalating additional patient nutrition questions or needs to appropriate clinical support team members.
• Collecting patient food preferences and ensuring compliance with prescribed diet orders. Distributing food preferences to the kitchen for menu planning in a timely manner.
• Operating electronic diet office software and tools following established procedures and protocols.
• Navigating electronic health records to access patient diet orders and nutritional reports.
• Performing general cleaning of equipment and work areas (e.g., cleaning the tray line, equipment, coolers, office area, and emptying trash cans, etc.)

Requirements

• One (1) year of Food Service Experience
• Food Handler Permit: NE, within 30 Days

Preferred

• High School Graduate General Studies, upon hire or
• High School GED General Studies, upon hire
• Customer Service Experience

Qualifications

• High School Graduate General Studies, upon hire or
• High School GED General Studies, upon hire
• Customer Service Experience

Skills

• Meticulous attention to detail
• Strong food safety knowledge
• Excellent customer service skills

Benefits

• Medical
• Prescription Drug
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (full-time benefit eligible team members may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Retirement Plan Benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time

Pay

The posted compensation range of $15.67 - $22.14 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting.

Schedule

72 hours per week, 3 12-hour shifts rotating weekends and holidays, Day shift, No remote work