Nutrition Assistant

St. Elizabeth Healthcare•Edgewood, KY

22h•Onsite

About The Position

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, the Nutrition Assistant role supports the mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities served. St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care for over 160 years across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, guided by values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Associates are considered the heart of the organization. This position involves processing utensils and dishware for patients, cafeteria, and catered meals, preparing and assembling foods for patients, assembling patient meal trays and nourishments, delivering patient meal carts and nourishment stock, and performing janitorial duties. The role requires demonstrating respect, dignity, kindness, and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors, and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Requirements

Must be able to read, write, understand, and follow written and verbal instructions.

Responsibilities

Process utensils and dishware for patients, cafeteria, and catered meals.
Prepare and assemble foods for patients.
Assemble patient meal trays and nourishments.
Deliver patient meal carts and nourishment stock.
Perform janitorial duties as assigned.
Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.
Deliver and retrieve room service meal carts and stock to patient care units.
Coordinate with ambassadors on timing and placement of carts and ASAP trays.
Add any assigned items to carts as needed.
Pick up dirty tray carts, replace with clean carts.
Deliver dirty tray carts to dish room.
Perform janitorial tasks such as cleaning equipment and work surfaces, mopping, sweeping and trash disposal.
Process all utensils and dishware through automated dish machine for patients, cafeteria and catered food service in accordance with sanitary guidelines.
Restock clean dishware in cafeteria, cook’s and room service line areas to meet service needs.
Compliance with all local, state, federal and medical center regulatory, safety, sanitation and security standards.
Participate in performance improvement (PI) studies; assist with data collection and supports action plans.
Performs other duties as assigned.