Dietary Aide Regular Part-Time

HES•York, PA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

This is a Regular Part-Time position requiring eight-hour shifts from 6am-2:30pm or 9:30am-6pm as scheduled. The role involves working every other weekend and every other holiday. Regular Part-Time typically means working 3 days per week or 6 days per bi-weekly pay period. The Dietary Aide is responsible for maintaining clean and sanitary work areas, using sanitary practices, completing daily cleaning assignments, ensuring proper storage of food items and leftovers, and cleaning/maintaining equipment. They must also report maintenance needs, attend department meetings and facility inservices, and follow all department, facility, and regulatory policies, procedures, and standards. Additionally, the role includes assisting with training new staff, conducting oneself professionally, and performing other duties as required. A significant aspect of the role involves participating in Quality Assurance Improvement Performance (QAIP) efforts, including attending trainings, carrying out assigned QAIP roles, following related policies, sharing improvement ideas, communicating outcomes or barriers, and supporting QAIP initiatives through actions and attitude. The position also requires recognizing and promoting a culture of safety, empowerment, and healing in accordance with Trauma Informed Care principles, and participating in annual compliance and ethics training, adhering to the code of conduct, and reporting concerns.

Requirements

Must be able to follow oral and written instructions.
Must be able to cooperate and communicate with others.
Must maintain personal hygiene and follow the department uniform policy.
Adequate health to perform the essential job functions.
Criminal history background clearance-Act 169 and Act 13.

Responsibilities

Able to perform assigned positions as outlined in department responsibility schedules.
Maintains clean, sanitary work areas.
Uses sanitary practices.
Completes daily cleaning assignments.
Ensures that food items and leftovers are stored properly.
Cleans and maintains equipment.
Reports maintenance needs.
Attends and participates in dept. meetings and facility inservices.
Follows department, facility and regulatory policies, procedures and standards.
Assists with the training of new staff members.
Conducts self in a professional manner.
Performs other duties as required for proper operation of facility/department and as assigned by Supervisor.
Recognize your role as part of the QAIP (Quality Assurance Improvement Performance) efforts of your organization.
Attend trainings to build understanding and capacity to undertake QAIP work.
Carry out QAIP roles and responsibilities as assigned.
Follow established policies and procedures in support of QAIP efforts.
Look for and share with leadership ideas for improvement in the organization.
Communicate to leadership upon witnessing a positive outcome of a QAIP project of detecting barriers preventing project success.
Support QAIP efforts both verbally and non-verbally (i.e., via actions and attitude) including adjusting performance and practice in accordance with QAPI initiatives and findings.
Recognize your role for Trauma Informed Care: Promotes a culture of safety, empowerment and healing; recognizes that everyone who interacts at Rest Haven may have past traumatic experience and protects trauma survivors from being re-traumatized.
Recognize your role for Compliance and Ethics: Participates in annual compliance and ethics training. Follows code of conduct reporting any compliance and ethics concerns.