Diet Aide

Presbyterian Healthcare Services • Rio Rancho, NM

6d • $16 - $22 • Onsite

About The Position

The Diet Aide supports a positive dining experience for patients, staff, and visitors at Presbyterian Rust Medical Center. The role oversees patient meal and tray delivery, including meals, nourishment, and floor stock, and ensures food selections align with physician-ordered diets. The Diet Aide also assists with food preparation and cooking to provide safe, high-quality meals throughout the hospital.

The position is part of the Food Service team and includes assembling and delivering meals, providing customer service, acting as an information liaison between Food Service, patients, and dietitians, and maintaining sanitation and quality standards. The role may support department quality assurance and maintain required records, such as temperature, sanitation, refrigeration, production, and late-tray logs. It may involve using kitchen utensils and equipment and operating a dishwasher.

Requirements

• At least one year of experience in food service or customer service.

Responsibilities

• Support the organization’s visions, values, and strategies and participate in department activities, including educational meetings and in-services.
• Support quality assurance and department policies and procedures, including food monitoring, temperature taking, plate presentation, and diet compliance.
• Participate in the Food Service team to provide exceptional customer service to patients.
• Assemble and deliver patient and customer meals according to established criteria and procedures.
• Demonstrate CARES behaviors and Customer Loyalty Bundle steps, including AIDET and HEAT, during meal delivery.
• Follow hospital, department, environmental, state, and JCAHO policies and procedures.
• Act as an information liaison between Food Service, patients, and dietitians.
• Maintain sanitation and quality standards required by department policy and regulatory agencies.
• Maintain required department records, reports, and files, including temperature, sanitation, refrigeration, production, and late-tray records.
• Assist with food preparation and cooking and use kitchen utensils and equipment as needed.
• Operate the dishwasher to ensure dishes and utensils are clean.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Group term life insurance
• Other optional voluntary benefits
• Employee Wellness rewards program, with opportunities to earn gift cards through wellness activities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed