Dietary Aide HCC

PruittHealth•Kernersville, NC

About The Position

Assists with food preparation in accordance with established procedural guidelines and directions from the Dietary Manager or supervisor. Follows facility procedures for storing, serving, and transporting food and supplies, and is responsible for cleaning, sanitizing, and properly maintaining equipment. The role includes supporting meal preparation and service for patients and residents, following dietary orders and food-handling procedures, maintaining kitchen and dining areas, and communicating with patients, residents, families, and visitors in a warm and professional manner.

Requirements

Sufficient education to demonstrate functional literacy.
No previous experience required; on-the-job training is provided.
Follow established food-handling, infection-control, and safety procedures.

Nice To Haves

Previous food-service and/or food-preparation experience preferred.
Long-term-care dietary experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Follow diet orders, including NPO diet orders.
Assist the cook with preparing meals, desserts, snacks, salads, and other dishes.
Use proper food-handling processes, procedures, and policies.
Deliver trays to patients and residents on the halls.
Deliver and serve food and beverages to patients and residents in the dining area.
Prepare and serve between-meal nourishment in accordance with procedural guidelines.
Offer menu substitutions and record them according to procedural guidelines.
Follow procedures for serving partner meals.
Communicate with patients, residents, clients, family members, and visitors in a friendly, helpful, caring, and professional manner; respond to concerns and answer questions when appropriate.
Clean dining-area tables after each meal and clean the work area at the end of shifts and after meals, including sweeping and mopping.
Remove garbage from kitchen areas and hose out garbage containers.
Comply with infection-control policies and established safety procedures and regulations.
Scrape dishes and wash dishes, pots, and pans.
Record freezer and walk-in refrigerator temperatures according to established procedures.
Check stock as needed and store supplies appropriately according to facility guidelines; store cleaning materials properly.
Set up the tray line and perform tray-line service.
Store leftovers and opened food properly.
Make coffee or tea as requested.
Clean kitchen equipment, including carts, tables, counters, ice machines, buckets, blenders, mixers, meat slicers, freezers, refrigerators, stoves, steamers, garbage disposals, dish machines, coffee and tea makers, and steam tables.
Operate coffee and tea makers, dish machines, garbage disposals, mixers, blenders, meat slicers, and steamers.
Follow standardized recipes and use serving equipment such as ladles, spoons, and scoops.
Check and record water temperatures and check dishwashers with sanitizer strips; check chemical levels and replace chemicals as needed.
Participate in center or agency surveys, including Licensure and JCAHO surveys, and complete subsequently required reports.
Attend and participate in continuing education programs and mandatory in-services.
Honor patients’ and residents’ rights, including fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property, civil rights, and the right to wage complaints.
Comply with the corporate compliance program.
Report job-related functions or tasks involving occupational hazards, including exposure to blood and body fluids, and other hazards as necessary.
Follow established safety regulations, including fire protection and prevention, smoking regulations, and infection control.