Dietary Assistant
Sullivan County Community Hospital•Sullivan, IN
•Onsite
About The Position
This position involves assisting in various aspects of food service operations, including preparation, serving, sanitation, and customer service. The role requires adherence to dietary requirements, safety regulations, and established procedures to ensure efficient and high-quality food service.
Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent
- One year public food service training
- One year public food service & commercial food preparation experience
- Understands public customer relations and communicates with the public in a professional, courteous, and helpful manner
- Maintains current and on-going working knowledge of food preparation
- Demonstrates the ability to follow standardized recipes
- Possesses positive, effective communication skills
- Coordinates skills to accomplish more than one activity at a time
- CPR certification
- ServSafe Certification
Responsibilities
- Prepare equipment for meal service, including steam tables, beverage areas, cash registers, salad bars, tables, seating, and tray set-up stations.
- Stock units with dishes, silverware, hot and cold foods, baked goods, beverages, desserts, condiments, and salad bar items in a timely manner.
- Serve food cost-effectively with attention to predetermined portioning.
- Maintain cleanliness and attractiveness of all department areas.
- Perform dishwashing services accurately and efficiently.
- Maintain dish machine and pot and pan areas in clean, sanitized conditions.
- Review menus and assemble food/supplies for daily preparation.
- Follow standardized recipes and maintain established policies and procedures in food preparation.
- Prepare specialty items for special functions as directed.
- Prepare food items for the cafeteria and for Meals on Wheels, ensuring attractive presentation and variety.
- Stock storage areas correctly and report any outages or shortages to management.
- Wash pots and pans using correct sanitizing techniques.
- Sweep and mop floors thoroughly.
- Receive and stock storage areas.
- Assist in the care and maintenance of department facilities and equipment supplies.
- Follow established department policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, environmental cleanliness, and infection control.
- Assist in closing the department to ensure safety and security.
- Correctly assemble meal trays according to diet requirements.
- Maintain awareness of therapeutic diets by studying the diet manual and attending in-service education.
- Read and modify menus correctly.
- Assemble trays on the assigned trayline position, including placement of beverages and loading food carts.
- Deliver meal carts to the correct units and retrieve carts.
- Keep patient cardex current when taking messages and orders from nursing units.
- Prepare nourishment according to therapeutic needs.
- Prepare accurate counts for items needed for trayline services.
- Comply with all Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) and sanitation regulations.
- Prevent injury by following all safety regulations.
- Practice infection control procedures per policy.
- Follow sanitation procedures of the department.
- Document required cleaning/temperature monitoring and report variances to the supervisor/director.
- Maintain temperature charts, cafeteria meal count, and money count daily.
- Prepare monies in par values daily and request change.
- Secure cash register when leaving the area.
- Maintain cafeteria furniture in good condition.
- Maintain starter station for tray line.
- Accept all other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
