Dietary Aide HCC

PruittHealth•Athens, GA

11d

About The Position

Assists with food preparation in accordance with established procedural guidelines and as directed by 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 supports meal and snack preparation and service for patients and residents while maintaining safe food-handling practices, clean work areas, and respectful, helpful communication.

Requirements

Sufficient education to demonstrate functional literacy.
No prior experience required; on-the-job training is provided.
Follow established food-handling, infection-control, and safety procedures.
Attend and participate in required in-services and continuing education, and maintain any current license or certification required for the role.

Nice To Haves

Previous food-service and/or food-preparation experience preferred.
Long-term-care dietary experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Follow diet orders, including NPO diet orders.
Assist the cook with preparing meals, desserts, snacks, salads, and other dishes.
Use proper food-handling processes, procedures, and policies.
Deliver trays to patients and residents on the halls.
Deliver and serve food and beverages to patients and residents in the dining area.
Prepare and serve between-meal nourishment in accordance with procedural guidelines.
Offer menu substitutions and record them in accordance with procedural guidelines.
Follow procedures for serving partner meals.
Communicate warmly and professionally with patients, residents, clients, family members, and visitors; respond to concerns and answer questions when appropriate.
Clean dining-area 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 dishes and wash dishes, pots, and pans.
Record freezer and walk-in refrigerator temperatures in accordance with established procedures.
Check stock as needed and store items appropriately according to facility guidelines; properly store cleaning materials, leftovers, and opened food.
Set up the tray line and perform tray-line service.
Make 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 coffee and tea makers, dish machines, garbage disposals, mixers, blenders, meat slicers, and steamers.
Follow standardized recipes and use serving equipment such as ladles, spoons, and scoops.
Check and record water temperatures and check dishwashers with sanitizer strips; check chemical levels and replace chemicals when 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 make complaints.
Comply with the corporate compliance program.
Report job-related functions or tasks involving occupational hazards, including exposure to blood and body fluids, as necessary.
Follow established safety regulations and procedures, including fire protection and prevention, smoking regulations, infection control, and safe equipment use.