Senior Dietary Worker

Job Summary

Sr. Dietary Worker performs a variety of duties relating to delivery and serving patient's food trays and assisting patients in menu selection, and retrieval of food carts. Acts as a critical liaison between patient and Food Service Department.

Essential Functions

• Deliver, serve, and retrieve patient food trays.
• To ensure each patient's dietary needs are met.
• Assist patients in menu selection.
• To identify food preferences.
• Assemble and deliver early/late trays.
• To ensure each patient's dietary needs are met.
• Deliver bulk stock, supplements, and tube feeding to units/patient rooms and return unused cans to the main kitchen.
• Units are sufficiently stocked.
• Collect all soiled trays and utensils from units (including isolation rooms) on a timely basis and transport trucks to dish room.
• Patient rooms are free of soiled trays and utensils.
• Ensure the patient receives an accurate and complete food tray.
• Handle tray errors and late trays. There must be 100% tray accuracy at all times.
• By a pre-established schedule, transport food trucks to patient floors.
• To ensure that all patients are fed on a preset schedule.
• By a pre-established schedule retrieves food trucks from patient floors.
• To assure soiled food trucks are clean and available for the next meal.
• Provides and maintains a safe environment through preventative and interventional measures.
• Adherence to MMC's Infection Control, Safety, and Disaster P & P's.
• Tags and removes broken equipment immediately.
• Communicates information regarding broken equipment to the charge person of the unit.
• Maintains required standards set forth by the NYSDOH by maintaining sanitary and safety standards.
• Visual inspections by Supervisors who refer to a checklist as mandated by the NYSDOH.
• Trains other employees in his/her area of responsibility.
• To assure competent coverage of this position when a regular associate is not available.
• Utilizes effective interpersonal skills to communicate and collaborate effectively with the Food and Nutrition Team.
• 100% compliance to quality.
• Communicates observations of patient/customer status to professionals.
• Assists other staff members on a team within the scope of practice.
• Interacts with co-workers in a manner that promotes team building.
• Is responsible and accountable for own actions.
• Adheres to MMC'S HR P & P.
• Reports on/off duty to designated Supervisor for the smooth running of the operation.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Required
• Pushing Food Truck
• Experience in customer service
• Knowledge and experience in food safety
• OHS Fit Test
• OHS Annual Assessment