Patient Dining Associate (Per Diem)
About The Position
The Patient Dining Associate is responsible for patient food service on assigned units. Duties include gathering menu selections, assembling and delivering trays, picking up trays, stocking patient units as needed, and fulfilling special requests for food between meals. The associate maintains accurate, current information for each patient and works within prescribed diet orders, including restrictions for special or modified diets, allergies, and sensitivities. They offer suitable menu alternatives when requested, taking cultural, ethnic, and religious preferences into account. The role also involves coordinating with Nursing to confirm diet prescriptions and meet patients’ food needs, rounding after meal trays are delivered to check on patients, and retrieving 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 used to manage patient-care records.
- Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written or oral instructions and address problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate and current information for each patient on the assigned unit.
- Conduct patient food service, including menu selection, tray assembly, tray delivery and pickup, and stocking units as needed.
- Fulfill special requests for food between meals.
- Take patients’ menu selections before meal service while complying with restrictions for special and modified diets.
- Offer appropriate menu alternatives in line with prescribed diets, allergies, sensitivities, and patients’ cultural, ethnic, and religious preferences.
- Interact with Nursing to ensure patients’ diet prescriptions are accurate and food needs are met.
- Round on patients after trays are delivered to check on them and address additional needs.
- Retrieve trays from patients once meals are finished.
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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