Culinary Diet Tech Bedside

Intermountain Health•St. George, UT

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Provides nutrition services to patients utilizing standardized guidelines. This position interacts with clinical caregivers, patients, and patient’s family members to explain the meal process and modify meal selections according to provider orders.

Requirements

Food Handler Permit or ServSafe Certification is required by first day of work
One or more year of cashier, food service or patient experience preferred
Demonstrated ability to work with modified diets (preferred)
Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred)
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment.
Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.

Responsibilities

Takes patient meal selections and modifies them using system standards to meet provider orders.
Communicates clearly to both clinical and culinary caregivers.
Collects and inputs nutrition screening information
May complete calorie count and nutrition analysis as dictated by facility
Utilizes a computer to run reports and take orders.
Delivers and presents trays to patients using the standard process.
Performs food preparation functions according to system standards (following standard recipe, assembling ingredients) for example, prepares salads, sandwiches, vegetables, and fruit.
Follows standardized practices relating to Nutrition Services (e.g. dining experience, meal delivery and maintaining required stock levels)
Performs accurate credit transactions according to system standards and independently resolves basic customer service issues.
Assists in meal selection for patients as established by standard guidelines
Records and modifies patient meal orders based on physician diet orders and Intermountain Modified Diet Guideline
Works with the clinical team to provide excellent patient care
Uses technology and meal ordering platform to facilitate the nutrition care process and needed departmental reports
Communicates patient needs to room service assembly area
Performs functions of room service call center and Bedside Connect
Provides exceptional customer service in all customer and patient interactions
Check and verify that patients receive appropriate meal selections on the room service line
Delivers patient trays according to department policy to provide safe and efficient meal service
Other duties as assigned