Room Service Assistant - Full Time

Sanford HealthSioux Falls, SD
Onsite

About The Position

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. This role involves performing a variety of duties related to food service for patients, including serving meals and snacks professionally, managing floor supplies, and delivering room service menus. The position requires effective communication with various healthcare staff, utilization of computer systems for diet orders and patient information, and adherence to HACCP guidelines. The assistant will also process meal orders, ensure they meet diet order parameters, and provide appropriate menus. Excellent customer service, listening skills, and the ability to establish effective working relationships are essential.

Requirements

  • Must have great customer service
  • 12 hr shifts to include a lot of walking
  • Possesses excellent customer service skills continuously
  • Displays listening skills and effectively communicates with co-workers, supervisors and nursing staff
  • Establishes effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisors and nursing staff

Nice To Haves

  • Direct customer service experience preferred
  • Previous food service experience and/or work with therapeutic diets preferred

Responsibilities

  • Take Patient orders using an Ipad
  • Deliver trays
  • Deliver floor stock to unit covering
  • Serves meals and snacks to patients in a professional manner
  • Ensures rotation of floor supplies and maintains supplies up to PAR (Periodic Automatic Replenishment) levels
  • Delivers appropriate room service menus to patients, instructing patients on meal ordering systems
  • Assesses patients’ ability to utilize the meal order system
  • Communicates effectively, timely and often with nursing staff, nutrition techs, dietitians and call center staff
  • Uses computerized diet sheets, accesses patient computer system, and retrieves completed meals from patients' rooms and records intake and calorie count information
  • Maintains compliance with all Hazardous Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) guidelines
  • Obtains, transcribes and processes meal orders from patients and visitors over the telephone, verifying that meal orders meet diet order parameters
  • Provides appropriate menu for diet
  • Evaluates and maintains quality control standards

Benefits

  • On-the-job training provided

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What This Job Offers

Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Entry Level

Education Level

No Education Listed

Number of Employees

5,001-10,000 employees

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