PATIENT DINING ASSOCIATE (DIETARY AIDE) (FULL TIME)

Job Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Qualifications

Benefits

Pay

Schedule

• Job Summary

  Morrison Healthcare is hiring a full-time Patient Dining Associate (Dietary Aide) at McLeod Dillon, SC. The position requires previous serving experience in a healthcare setting and offers competitive pay and benefits.

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Help patients understand their menu selections and work with nursing to ensure their orders comply with nutritional requirements or restrictions.

  • Work with the caregivers and culinary team to determine menu alternatives for patients with food allergies and sensitivities; cultural, ethnic and religious preferences; or when a patient inquires about additional selections.

  • Manage tray tickets and assemble meals according to each patient's menu selection in a timely and accurate manner.

  • Retrieve trays from patient rooms at assigned times.

  • Complies with regulator agency standards, including federal, state and JCAHO.

  • Follows Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) guidelines when handling food, cleaning work stations and breaking down patient tray line.

  • Follows facility and department infection control policies and procedures.

  • Assist dietitians, such as helping monitor patients who cannot eat food through their mouth, are on liquid diets or have a specific calorie count to manage.

  • Communicate problems or concerns with patients to appropriate personnel in a timely manner, following department procedures.

  • Complete all daily, weekly or monthly reports as outlined in the Morrison Healthcare policies and procedures.

  • Comply with federal, state and local health and sanitation regulations, as well as department sanitation procedures.

• Qualifications

  • Ability to read, write and interpret documents in English.

  • Basic computer and mathematical skills.

  • Able to occasionally lift or move up to 100 pounds, as well as maneuver and push food delivery carts.

Benefits

• For Our Team Members

  • Retirement Plan

  • Associate Shopping Program

  • Health and Wellness Programs

  • Discount Marketplace

  • Pet Insurance

  • Other voluntary benefits including Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Legal Services, and Choice Auto and Home Program

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance/AD, Disability Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Pay

Fixed Pay Rate: $15.00 per hour

Schedule

Full time schedule; 40 hours a week, 3 1/2 days a week. Days and hours may vary; rotating weekends included.