Nutrition Services Ambassador

About the role

The Nutrition Services Ambassador is accountable for meal service for all patients on a daily basis to ensure they receive meals that are accurate and beneficial for their wellbeing. This role helps obtain the patient's menu selection and processes the orders to ensure they meet the patient's specific health needs, while also communicating any patient concerns to the appropriate clinical dietitian.

Responsibilities

• Obtains the patient's menu selection and processes tray tickets according to the patient's specific diet prescription.
• Processes customer and patient meal orders, ensuring adherence to special diet requests to deliver high-quality food service.
• Ensures adherence to diet orders while visiting patients to obtain or deliver meal selections.
• Serves correct food and beverages to patients in accordance with their diet to provide necessary nourishment.
• Assembles, delivers, and removes food trays from units following all meals in an efficient and timely manner.
• Tracks the number of meals served, cashier reports, and inventory to keep records up-to-date and document business processes.
• Communicates patient concerns to the clinical dietitian, such as education needs or inadequate meal consumption, to ensure the patient receives necessary care.
• Serves as the point of contact for patient care units to facilitate the connection between the patient's nutrition and health.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent (preferred). Will consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 0-2 years of experience.