Nutrition Assistant II Per Diem
About The Position
The Nutrition Assistant II will work closely with members of the culinary department to ensure that residents receive the proper diet and food items. The Nutrition Assistant II is also responsible for auditing meal tickets, food stock, and kitchen sanitation. The role requires strong customer service skills with patients, families, and clinical/culinary staff, and the ability to share information with the team regarding patients’ status. Effective communication and collaboration with patients, families and staff, conveying respect and professionalism, are essential. High attention to detail is needed to ensure menus/diet orders are appropriately completed and accurately entered into the computer system, and to ensure tray accuracy. The assistant must be able to multitask and concentrate on fine detail with frequent interruptions, work independently with minimal supervision, exercise initiative, seek additional tasks and projects from the supervisor, accept assignments readily, recognize problems independently, and work toward improving systems and procedures. Maintaining confidentiality of patient information is also a key aspect of the role.
Requirements
- College-level nutrition courses required
- Effective verbal, electronic, and written communication skills are required in English
- Strong customer service and team-focused interpersonal skills needed
- Computer skills required
- Attention to detail and multi-tasking abilities are required
- Demonstrates ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, and adapt to changing situations
- Serve Safe Certified to be obtained within 6 months of hire
- CPR to be obtained within 6 months of hire
- Allergy Awareness Certificate to be obtained within 6 months of hire
- Demonstrates desire for leadership and clinical nutrition growth
Nice To Haves
- AS/BS in Nutrition strongly encouraged
- Food service experience at a hospital setting preferred
- Prior experience as a nutrition assistant or knowledge of therapeutic diets preferred
- Previous experience with the Computrition nutrition program a plus
- Word and Excel competency a plus
Responsibilities
- Assists patients with menu selection and enters into the computer
- Reviews menu selections to ensure compliance to preferences, allergies, and prescribed diet
- Relays relevant information back to the team to keep everyone abreast of patients’ status
- Enters patient information in the computer
- During meal service, prepare the pod by plating meals, placing them on trays, and placing meal trays on trucks
- Check trays for accuracy to ensure the meal matches meal ticket
- Deliver food truck to the units, and clean up the station after meal service
- Answers phone and message machine in a timely manner and takes appropriate steps to ensure customer satisfaction
- Prepares hot and cold production sheets and file accordingly
- Prepares late tickets as requested
- Leads, mentors and trains newly hired Nutrition Assistants
- Responsible for EOC rounding on RSU, pantry/RSU kitchenette, assuring CMS standards (FIF0, proper labeling and dating etc) are being maintained
- Maintains diet office supplies
- Calculates and communicates weekly enteral feeding PAR requirements to Central Stores
- As requested by the Registered Dietitian, conduct calorie counts, visits with patients, obtain preferences/food allergies, take snack orders, determine tolerance of meals/supplements, and reinforce patient education
- Conduct meal rounds and test trays
- Books outpatient nutrition appointments
- Conduct monthly in-services
- Assists the supervisors in helping the team complete LMS training
- Performs other related duties as required or directed
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
