Dietary Aide

Rolling Hills Health & Rehab • Topeka, KS

6h • Onsite

About The Position

The Dietary Aide assists in the kitchen before, during, and after meals are served. The role helps maintain kitchen work areas and keeps equipment, utensils, and food plates clean and orderly. Duties listed are general and not all-inclusive; additional responsibilities may be assigned by an authorized supervisor.

The Dietary Aide follows facility personnel, safety, and corporate policies; protects resident and family confidentiality; treats residents, families, visitors, and team members with dignity and respect; and promptly reports suspected resident abuse or neglect, hazardous conditions, and accidents or incidents. The role supports meal service, food preparation, cleaning, dishwashing, infection control, and safe handling and disposal of food and waste.

The position requires regular worksite attendance, basic computer skills, and the ability to communicate in English. The employee may need to work beyond normal hours and on weekends or holidays, assist with resident evacuations, and perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Physical demands include frequent lifting and carrying of lighter items, occasional lifting of 26–50 pounds, frequent reaching, pushing, pulling, and hand manipulation, as well as potentially twisting, bending, crawling, squatting, kneeling, crouching, climbing, and balancing. When assisting residents with objects over 25 pounds, the employee must use a transfer/gait belt or obtain another employee’s assistance.

Requirements

• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Regular worksite attendance.
• Ability to work beyond normal working hours and on weekends and holidays when necessary.
• Ability to assist in evacuating residents during emergencies.
• Ability to perform essential position functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to relate to and work with ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and sometimes hostile people in the facility.
• Ability to see and hear, or use prosthetics that enable these senses to function adequately for the position.
• Use of a transfer/gait belt or assistance from another employee when assisting residents with lifting or carrying objects over 25 pounds.
• If required to operate a motor vehicle for business purposes, successful completion of the requirements in the Company’s Motor Vehicles policy.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the kitchen before, during, and after meals are served.
• Maintain clean and orderly kitchen work areas, equipment, utensils, and food plates.
• Comply with facility personnel, safety, and corporate policies and procedures.
• Immediately report witnessed or reported allegations of resident abuse or neglect to the Administrator, Director of Nursing, or Charge Nurse on Duty.
• Treat residents, family members, visitors, and team members with dignity and respect, and maintain confidentiality of resident and family information.
• Report to work on time and as scheduled.
• Follow established dietary procedures and policies.
• Assist with serving meals and pouring beverages.
• Prepare and serve between-meal nourishment snacks.
• Complete daily or scheduled cleaning duties, including cleaning work tables, meat blocks, refrigerators, freezers, and food storage areas.
• Sweep and mop floors as directed and perform dishwashing and cleaning procedures.
• Ensure utensils and cooking equipment are available for the next meal.
• Remove garbage and keep work areas clean, dry, and free of hazards.
• Assist the cook with meal preparation when needed.
• Follow safety regulations, infection-control practices, and Universal Precautions.
• Maintain necessary departmental equipment and supplies and ensure the department is clean and safe.
• Promptly report hazardous conditions, equipment, accidents, incidents, and missing or illegible labels or safety data sheets to a supervisor.
• Dispose of food and waste according to established policies.
• Wear protective clothing and equipment when handling infectious waste or blood and body fluids.
• Assist in evacuating residents during emergencies.
• Use a transfer/gait belt or obtain another employee’s assistance when assisting residents with lifting or carrying objects over 25 pounds.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed