Nutrition Associate

Job Summary

The Nutrition Associate performs a variety of food preparation duties such as preparing foods, maintaining and cleaning kitchen work areas, equipment, and utensils. Serves food to patients, staff, and visitors. Areas of coverage vary depending on location assigned, and roles include assisting with retail functions, patient room service, catering, and utility sanitation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Education: None.
• Minimum Years of Experience: None.
• Substitutable Education & Experience: None.
• Required Certifications/Licensure: None.
• Required Training: Strong work ethic and desire to provide outstanding customer service; Ability to understand and follow both written and oral instructions; Knowledge of and ability to solve simple mathematical problems; Must be able to handle a fast-paced, diverse work environment with high expectations; Must anticipate guests' needs and be able to handle potential problems that may arise in a satisfactory manner; Professional attitude and tact.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Utility:
• Prepares dishmachines for use.
• Maintains dishroom during meal periods.
• Delivers and picks up patient tray carts from patient units, noting times on appropriate form. Helps in the cleanup of carts.
• Keeps pot sink organized and in order.
• Cleans floors, equipment, walls, etc.
• Retail:
• Operates cash register during meal hours.
• Totals and verifies all money, adhering to cash handler’s agreement.
• Supplies and maintains accurate levels of products in cafeteria.
• Prepares and gathers all food items, setup and work on the cafeteria line, grill and deli, serve customers quickly and courteously.
• RSA:
• Responsibilities can range from expediting (checking) patient trays to starting patient trays, prepping food for patients, assembling trays, delivering patient trays, and so on.
• May be asked to work interdepartmentally depending on needs of the department.
• Catering:
• Organizes, prepares, delivers and breakdown all hospital catered functions. Must be an excellent champion of Service Expectations policy.
• Maintains records of all functions to include number served, amount of food prepared/used, and other supplies used.
• Employs proper sanitary procedures to prepare, assemble, and deliver catered meals.
• May assist interdepartmentally if catering is slow.

Benefits

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer

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