Nutrition Care Representative (Diet Clerk) - Per Diem

Cedars-Sinai•Los Angeles, CA

5d•$24 - $24•Onsite

About The Position

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai! At Cedars-Sinai, we're motivated by a collective spirit of innovation and the challenge to continuously improve. Above all, we share a real passion for helping others. Day after day, from department to department, our people give their all to create a community unlike any other. This is just one of the many reasons U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America’s Best Hospitals—and now we invite you to join us and make a difference every single day in service of this outstanding work – excellence and innovation in patient care, research, and community service. From working with a team of dedicated professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll have great resources to do something incredible—for yourself, and for others.

Requirements

Per Diem

Responsibilities

Act as an ambassador and facilitator of patient food services on the patient care unit.
Process, validate, and interpret physician diet prescriptions as conveyed by nursing personnel.
Collect and correct patient menu selections in conformance with the physician's diet order.
Address and follow up on concerns and issues related to patient satisfaction.
Handle routine clerical, data entry, and nutrition care responsibilities on the unit.
Collaborate with leadership staff to improve the quality of service and nutrition care service provided to patients.
Review and modify patient menus by adding, deleting or substituting food items in accordance with physician's and dietitian's orders and restrictions.
Obtain menu selection at the patient's bedside or over the phone assuring compliance to the physician's diet order and departmental guidelines for menu correction.
Explain menu modifications/substitutions to patients.
Navigate patient to the menu system and services offered by the department.