Dietary Aide HCC

PruittHealth•Austell, GA

About The Position

Assists with food preparation according to established procedures 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 preparing and serving meals, snacks, and nourishment; following diet orders; delivering trays and meals to patients and residents; and communicating with patients, residents, clients, families, and visitors in a warm, helpful, and professional manner. It also involves cleaning the kitchen and dining areas, operating and maintaining food-service equipment, monitoring food storage and sanitation procedures, and complying with safety, infection-control, resident-rights, and corporate-compliance requirements. Sufficient education to demonstrate functional literacy is required. No prior experience is required; on-the-job training is provided. Previous food service or food preparation experience and long-term-care dietary experience are preferred.

Requirements

Sufficient education to demonstrate functional literacy.
No prior experience required; on-the-job training is provided.
Follow established food-handling, sanitation, 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 meal trays to patients and residents on halls.
Deliver and serve food and beverages 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 warm, friendly, helpful, and professional manner; respond to expressed concerns and answer questions when appropriate.
Clean dining 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 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 cleaning materials, leftovers, and opened food.
Set up the tray line and perform tray-line service.
Prepare 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 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 sanitation using 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 tasks or functions involving occupational hazards, including possible exposure to blood and body fluids.
Follow established safety regulations and procedures, including fire protection and prevention, smoking regulations, infection control, and safe equipment use.