Dietary Aide Per Diem

Beth Israel Lahey Health•Cambridge, MA

7d•$17 - $23•Onsite

About The Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. This role involves passing menus, portioning food, stocking stations, serving food, preparing nourishments and tube feedings, inventorying stock, delivering trays, cleaning work areas, and resetting the tray line. The Dietary Aide works under the direction of the lead diet aide and food services supervisor, continuously striving to improve the quality of the department and the institution.

Requirements

Ability to read English and comprehend and follow verbal and some written instructions.
Ability to read and write at level three as documented on "Invest," the hospital's Employee Learning Laboratory software.
Communication skills relevant to delivering patient trays and for all contacts in the hospital.

Responsibilities

Passes menus to appropriate patients according to name and room number, and presents a positive image to customer.
Portions food for tray line.
Stocks and restocks tray line stations with food supplies.
Serves tray line station at mealtime.
Assists in loading trays onto meal trucks.
Prepares and delivers patient between-meal nourishments for Mount Auburn Hospital and necessary tube feedings.
Inventories par stock for specific designated nursing units.
Delivers late trays to patients.
Retrieves trays from patient care area.
Cleans and sanitizes assigned work area.
Scrapes dishes and loads dishes and trays into dishwasher.
Resets tray line for next meal.
Works continuously to improve the total quality of the department and other departments within the institution.