Diet Technician
About The Position
Essential Functions • Resident Care: Provides limited diet counseling to residents and their families as directed by the therapeutic dietitian. • May assist therapeutic dietitian in interviewing residents to obtain food preferences, intolerance, allergies, and nutritionally related problems. • Visits residents during meal service to observe intake and satisfaction with meals. Reports any findings regarding resident poor food intake to dietitian. • Adjusts daily schedule when changes occur. • Assists the clinical dietitian y questioning suspected errors on resident census sheet on requisitions. • Informs the dietitian of resident who need special attention. • Acts as a liaison between nursing and dietary for communication and production purposes regarding diet instructions , testing procedures, special feeder residents, etc. • Clerical: Performs routine office duties as it relates to therapeutic services. • Informs Maintenance Department of equipment repairs. Notifies food service of same. • Informs Maintenance Department of equipment repairs. Notifies Food service of same. • Updates resident census daily including new admissions, discharge, and diet changes according to floor census sheet. • Answers telephone and attends to messages accordingly.
Responsibilities
- Provides limited diet counseling to residents and their families as directed by the therapeutic dietitian.
- Assists therapeutic dietitian in interviewing residents to obtain food preferences, intolerance, allergies, and nutritionally related problems.
- Visits residents during meal service to observe intake and satisfaction with meals and reports any findings regarding resident poor food intake to dietitian.
- Adjusts daily schedule when changes occur.
- Assists the clinical dietitian by questioning suspected errors on resident census sheet on requisitions.
- Informs the dietitian of resident who need special attention.
- Acts as a liaison between nursing and dietary for communication and production purposes regarding diet instructions, testing procedures, special feeder residents, etc.
- Performs routine office duties as it relates to therapeutic services.
- Informs Maintenance Department of equipment repairs and notifies food service of same.
- Updates resident census daily including new admissions, discharge, and diet changes according to floor census sheet.
- Answers telephone and attends to messages accordingly.
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