Nutrition Hospitality Associate FT Days

Responsibilities

• Responsible for patient food service on assigned units, including menu selections, tray assembly, tray delivery and pick up, special requests and needs.
• Exhibits a friendly, caring attitude to patients when introducing the Room Service Program, taking menu selections, delivering trays, inquiring during catering rounds and retrieving trays.
• Takes patient menu selections if identifies as needing assistance.
• Complies with dietary restrictions on special, modified diets to ensure optimal food preferences are met within guidelines of diet order limitations.
• Offers alternatives to menu as allowed on prescribed diet in accordance with food allergies and sensitivities, cultural, ethnic and religious preferences, when patient inquires or needs additional selections.
• Reports any issues of food quality and presentation, food temperature, safety, and storage to lead production immediately.
• Assembles trays according to patient’s menu on tray tickets in a timely and accurate manner.
• Interacts with Nursing to ensure patients’ diet prescriptions are accurate, and patients’ food needs are met.
• Completes rounds after passing trays to inquire if patient needs anything else.
• Maintains accurate and current information for each patient on assigned unit(s) as stated in training manual.
• Aids dietitian with monitoring patients who are NPO, on liquid diets or have a calorie count ordered.
• Communicates any patient related problems/concerns to appropriate personnel, in a timely manner following departmental procedures.

Requirements

• Related experience or training preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to patients, families and associates of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute ratio and percent.
• Possesses necessary skills to effectively operate hospital’s admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) system and other computer-based systems, which manage patient-care records.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Must have the ability to learn special diets.
• Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
• Possesses a personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission and vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health.

Schedule

6:30 am – 5:00 pm, every other weekend and holiday rotation.