Nutrition Services Dietary Aide PRN

Briarcliff Skilled Nursing Facility•Carthage, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Nutrition Services - Dietary Aide PRN at Briarcliff Skilled Nursing Facility in Carthage, TX. This role assists the food service team in creating a positive and healthy dining experience for residents. The Dietary Aide ensures that meals, snacks, and hospitality items are prepared and the dining room is set up within the correct serving times. They will also work with other department staff to ensure the desired service and clean-up of meals, snacks, and hospitality areas. Briarcliff Skilled Nursing Facility is committed to providing superior clinical care, rehabilitation, wellness, and supportive services.

Requirements

Food handlers’ card required.
Must have fundamental understanding of sanitations, cleanliness, and personal hygiene.
Must be able to tactfully communicate with co-workers, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies and the general public.
Must have regular, predictable, and dependable attendance.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Understands and follows guidelines for food handling and storage, including all raw and prepared foods.
Tests and records temperatures of hot and cold foods; records temperature of cold food storage areas.
Properly discards expired or contaminated food times.
Properly performs and enforces hand washing, wearing of gloves, and use of hair restraints.
Complies with established infection control and universal precaution policies and procedures & uses required protective wear when performing daily tasks.
Follows and enforces methods to control cross-contamination.
Prepares food using standardized recipes and in the required amount specified by production worksheets and in accordance with special diet requirements.
Uses available tools (spreadsheet, prep-at-a-glance, production guides) to ensure timely and correct meal production and portion control.
Incorporate steps to properly pull, thaw and prep foods in advance of production need.
Ensures foods prepared are served within meal serving hours and that quality, temperature and appearance of food is preserved.
Serves meal in accordance with facility methods and using correct portion control and plating / presentation guidelines.
Performs daily and scheduled cleaning of kitchen and equipment in accordance with established sanitation procedures.
Ensures work area is properly cleaned and sanitized after each task.
Ensures serving line and dining rooms are correctly set up and cleaned after use, including tasks such as rolling flatware, setting tables, maintaining tabletop condiments and centerpieces and other duties as assigned.
Properly stores, chills, and reheats leftovers for later use.
Cleans and arranges food storage areas.
Assists other department staff as needed to ensure timely production, service, and clean-up.
Completes kitchen close duties (PM shift) as assigned by Nutrition Services Manager or directed by cook in charge.
Other duties as assigned.