Dietary Aide HCC

PruittHealth•Gainesville, GA

12d

About The Position

The Dietary Aide assists with food preparation in accordance with established procedural guidelines and directions from the Dietary Manager or supervisor. The role follows facility procedures for storing, serving, and transporting food and supplies, and is responsible for cleaning, sanitizing, and properly maintaining equipment. The aide follows diet and NPO orders; helps prepare meals, desserts, snacks, and between-meal nourishments; and delivers and serves food to patients and residents. The position also involves setting up and serving the tray line, offering and recording menu substitutions, serving partner meals, and communicating with patients, residents, clients, families, and visitors in a warm, helpful, and professional manner. Additional duties include cleaning dining and kitchen areas and equipment; washing dishes, pots, and pans; monitoring and recording refrigerator, freezer, water, dishwasher, and chemical levels as required; checking and storing stock and food; following infection-control and safety procedures; participating in surveys, education, and mandatory in-services; and respecting residents’ rights and complying with the corporate compliance program. Functional literacy is required. No prior experience is required, and on-the-job training is provided. Previous food service, food preparation, or long-term care dietary experience is preferred.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Follow diet orders and 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 halls.
Deliver and serve meals, food, and beverages in the dining area.
Prepare and serve between-meal nourishments in accordance with procedural guidelines.
Offer menu substitutions and record them in accordance with procedural guidelines.
Follow procedures for serving partner meals.
Communicate warmly and professionally with patients, residents, clients, family members, and visitors; respond to expressed concerns and answer appropriate questions.
Clean dining-area tables after each meal and clean the work area after meals and at the end of the shift, including sweeping and mopping.
Remove garbage from kitchen areas and hose out garbage containers.
Comply with infection-control policies in the work area.
Scrape and wash dishes, pots, and pans.
Record freezer and walk-in refrigerator temperatures according to established procedures.
Check stock as needed and store it appropriately according to facility guidelines; properly store leftovers and opened food.
Store cleaning materials appropriately.
Set up the tray line and perform tray-line service.
Make coffee and 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 the coffee and tea maker, dish machine, garbage disposal, mixer, blender, meat slicer, and steamer.
Follow standardized recipes and use serving equipment such as ladles, spoons, and scoops.
Check and record water temperatures and check dishwasher sanitizer levels with sanitizer strips.
Check chemical levels and replace chemicals if needed.
Participate in center or agency surveys, including licensure and JCAHO surveys, and complete subsequently required reports.
Attend and participate in continuing education and mandatory in-services.
Honor patients’ and residents’ rights, including fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property, and civil rights, including the right to wage complaints.
Comply with the corporate compliance program.
Report job-related tasks involving occupational hazards, including exposure to blood and body fluids, as necessary.
Follow established safety regulations and procedures, including fire protection and prevention, smoking regulations, infection control, and safe use of equipment.