Patient Dining Associate (Per Diem)
About The Position
The Patient Dining Associate is responsible for patient food service on assigned units. Duties include collecting menu selections, assembling and delivering meal trays, picking up trays, stocking patient units as needed, and fulfilling special food requests between meals. The associate maintains accurate and current patient information and ensures food preferences are met within prescribed diet limitations. The role includes offering menu alternatives in accordance with patients’ prescribed diets, allergies, sensitivities, and cultural, ethnic, or religious preferences. The associate works with Nursing to confirm diet prescriptions and meet patients’ food needs, rounds after meal trays are delivered to check on patients, and retrieves trays when meals are finished.
Requirements
- Must be able to read and speak English.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; may need to compute ratios and percentages.
- Ability to operate the hospital’s admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) system and other computer-based systems that manage patient-care records.
- Ability to understand and carry out written or oral instructions using common sense, and to address problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate and current information for each patient on assigned units.
- Conduct patient food service, including menu selections, tray assembly, tray delivery and pickup, and stocking units as needed.
- Fulfill special requests for food delivery between meals.
- Take patients’ menu selections before meal service while complying with dietary restrictions and modified diets.
- Offer menu alternatives permitted by prescribed diets and account for allergies, sensitivities, and cultural, ethnic, and religious preferences.
- Interact with Nursing to ensure diet prescriptions are accurate and patients’ food needs are met.
- Round on patients after trays are passed to check on them and address additional needs.
- Retrieve trays from patients after meals.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits program designed to support work/life balance.
- Opportunities for career development and growth.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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