Nutrition Care Associate (per diem) - Jefferson Abington

Jefferson Health Plans•Abington Township, PA

21h•Onsite

About The Position

Reporting to the Lead Nutrition Care Associate, Food Service Supervisor or Food Service Manager, the Nutrition Care Associate coordinates and communicates all information related to patient meal service. His/her main responsibility is interacting and providing exceptional customer service to patients as it relates to order taking and delivering/collecting meals.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent required.
Previous nutrition office experience preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

Processes nutrition orders and tray tickets with 100% accuracy to ensure accurate and up to date nutritional needs are provided.
Manually enters patient’s menu selections for patients with multiple diet restrictions and assures selections fall within nutritional parameters for the restrictions.
Communicates with supervisor, Lead Food Service Associate, Registered Dietitians, and Food Service Associates regarding patient preferences, requests for diet education, poor intake, allergies and special requests to ensure consistent, appropriate, safe and appealing meals.
Is proficient in CBORD Food Service Suite nutrition software and processes nutrition orders and tray tickets with 100% accuracy to ensure accurate and up to date nutritional needs are provided.
Cross-references and manually enters patient’s diet allergies that do not interface with CBORD nutritional software from electronic medical record.

Benefits

medical (including prescription)
supplemental insurance
dental
vision
life and AD&D insurance
short- and long-term disability
flexible spending accounts
retirement plans
tuition assistance
voluntary benefits
tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.