DIETARY AIDE (Part-Time/EVE-W, Th. & F)
About The Position
Join our dedicated dietary team as a Part-Time Evening Diet Aide, where your enthusiasm and attention to detail will make a meaningful difference in residents’ lives. In this vital role, you will assist with meal service, food preparation, and sanitation in a supportive environment that values teamwork and quality care. This position offers an excellent opportunity to develop culinary and food handling skills while contributing to the well-being of our residents in assisted living, nursing home, or hospital settings. This is a PART TIME position. 3 days per week. 15 hours per week. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 4:30PM-9:30PM You will come in and help prep dinner snacks, and desserts if needed, and dinner set up. You will help the cook serve on tray line service. After tray line you will help clean up, sweep, mop, wash mats, general closing. The other evening aides leave at 8:30PM you will finish dishes, take out trash, finish closing. There is a lot of cleaning in this position since the other evening aides are doing dishes.
Requirements
- High School graduate or equivalent preferred
- Prior experience in assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospitals, or the food industry is highly desirable but not required.
- Experience working in dietary departments or with dietary aides is a plus
- Strong time management skills to efficiently support meal schedules and cleanliness routines
- Excellent customer service skills with a friendly approach toward residents or patients
- Must be able to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical information, and to be easily understood through verbal communication in the English language.
- Must have exceptional communication and customer service skills, and be empathetic.
- Ability to effectively communicate with patients, families, responsible parties, staff and outside resources and agencies.
- Must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, and volume.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospitals, or the food industry is highly desirable
- Experience working in dietary departments or with dietary aides is a plus
Responsibilities
- Assist with food preparation and meal assembly according to dietary guidelines and safety standards
- Serve meals to residents or patients with friendly, attentive customer service
- Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of kitchen areas, dining rooms, and food service equipment
- Support food handling procedures to ensure proper storage, labeling, and safety compliance
- Follow all food safety protocols, including proper sanitation practices and cross-contamination prevention
- Help with general kitchen duties such as cleaning utensils, dishes, and food prep surfaces as needed
- Demonstrate knowledge of, and respect for, the rights, dignity and individuality of each resident in all interactions
- Appreciate the importance of maintaining confidentiality of resident and facility information
- Demonstrate honesty and integrity at all times in the care and use of resident and facility property
- Must be neat and clean and well groomed appearance
- Ability to read, speak and understand English, follow directions and complete tasks assigned
- Ability to follow time schedules for meal preparation and serving
- Dependability
- Other duties as assigned by the Cook and/or Dietary Services Supervisor
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
