Dietary Aide (Full-Time) - Day
About The Position
The Dietary Aide prepares and serves food to patients, staff, and visitors while maintaining high service and sanitation standards. The role includes following patient menus, preparing and serving cafeteria and grill items, preparing late trays, delivering nourishment and food carts as needed, and supporting special meetings. The Dietary Aide also washes dishes and kitchen equipment, maintains the cleanliness of work areas and serving stations, follows food storage and sanitation procedures, handles cafeteria register transactions, and helps provide excellent customer service.
Requirements
- High school diploma, GED, or equivalent GED program.
- Ability to work with the understanding that errors or incompetency may have serious consequences for patients.
- Ability to communicate verbally in person or by phone.
- Ability to read and concentrate frequently to check the accuracy of reports, correspondence, computer records, and other materials.
- Ability to manage stress when dealing with the public, frequent interruptions, and multiple tasks concurrently.
- Flexibility to respond to changing priorities, special project assignments, and emergencies.
- Ability to manage time appropriately to meet patient and department needs.
- Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including substantial standing, walking, stooping, and lifting.
Nice To Haves
- At least six months of prior experience in a food service department.
Responsibilities
- Follow patient menus accurately on the serving line and serve in the cafeteria and grill.
- Prepare salads, coffee, and desserts according to meal schedules.
- Prepare late trays as required.
- Deliver food carts to designated locations on occasion and return carts to the kitchen.
- Wash dishes, cookware, flatware, trays, pots, pans, cooking utensils, and small equipment using approved sanitation procedures; inspect items for cleanliness.
- Return clean equipment to its proper place in the kitchen.
- Maintain clean wash and rinse water and add the designated sanitizing agent to the final rinse.
- Maintain sanitation in the pot-washing area.
- Set up the counter, beverage system, coffee, grill, steam table, condiment station, and serving line.
- Cook and serve grilled items according to customer requests.
- Follow proper cash-handling procedures when working the cafeteria register.
- Provide excellent customer service to support positive and improving patient satisfaction scores.
- Portion, serve, and replenish desserts, pastries, salads, hot foods, and other items.
- Replenish paper and silverware products.
- Wrap, store, and date excess food and place it in appropriate refrigerators.
- Clean and maintain the entire work area after service, including tables and chairs.
- Assist with service and setup for special meetings.
- Relieve cafeteria personnel when necessary.
- Deliver nourishment to nursing units as required.
- Collect and remove trash and garbage to designated containers.
- Clean assigned work areas, equipment, walls, cabinets, and storage areas according to established procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Retirement benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
