Dietary Assistant - Per Diem
About The Position
Performs a variety of duties to set up, distribute, and recover patient meal trays efficiently and accurately. Assembles, distributes, and/or serves meals for the cafeteria and special functions. Maintains kitchen, cafeteria, and unit kitchen areas in a clean and orderly condition. Performs cafeteria cashier duties, specific ware-washing duties as assigned, and other related duties as required. Brown University Health employees are expected to role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence in their everyday actions with patients, customers, and one another.
Requirements
- Knowledge usually achieved in grammar school.
- Ability to use simple tools and equipment and follow simple instructions.
- Ability to stand or walk 3–7 hours per day, twist or bend infrequently, and lift 25–50 pounds using good body mechanics.
- Ability to use both hands and wrists with moderate deviation, perform repetitive pinching, and carry out frequent fine motor skills.
- Accurate near vision at 20/20, minimal far vision and color discrimination, accurate depth perception, and ability to hear whispers at 3 feet.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate understanding of the Hospital's and Brown University Health's mission, vision, and values; the job description and performance expectations; and the competency assessment plan.
- Commit to meeting and exceeding customer needs and consistently adhere to Customer Service Standards.
- Comply with department and hospital policies and procedures, and review applicable policies.
- Complete hospital-wide, department-specific, and job-specific mandatory education.
- Participate in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities.
- Apply food-service sanitation and infection-control principles and accepted techniques for handling, serving, and storing food.
- Operate dish and pot-and-pan machines safely, record temperature readings, keep detergent dispensers full, and promptly report malfunctioning equipment.
- Scrape and soak soiled dishes, silverware, utensils, and pots and pans; load and operate machines; and unload and store clean ware appropriately.
- Clean dish and pot-and-pan machines, work counters, stainless steel surfaces, and conveyor belt areas after each meal according to standard procedures.
- Remove department trash after each meal, transport it to the dumpster, and clean the cart after each delivery.
- Follow posted cleaning schedules for kitchen and cafeteria equipment, refrigerators, freezers, storerooms, food carts, and trucks.
- Sweep and mop kitchen and cafeteria floors when assigned, using standard procedures and wet-floor signs.
- Stock the cafeteria with trays, dishes, silverware, and utensils before and during meal service as needed.
- Check and document the Mental Health Unit refrigerator temperature daily.
- Fill and deliver floor-stock orders to patient units in a timely manner.
- Receive and store food supplies in storerooms, freezers, and refrigerators as assigned.
- Assemble patient trays for child, adult, and geriatric populations, including patients on suicide precautions.
- Perform cafeteria cashier duties and other related duties as required.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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