Room Service Assistant - Full Time
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 position involves helping patients fill out menus on an iPad, delivering trays, and communicating with nursing staff. The role performs a variety of duties involved with food service for patients, serving meals and snacks in a professional manner. It ensures the rotation of floor supplies and maintains supplies up to PAR levels. The assistant delivers appropriate room service menus to patients, instructing them on meal ordering systems and assessing their ability to utilize the system. The role requires effective, timely, and frequent communication with nursing staff, nutrition techs, dietitians, and call center staff. It involves using computerized diet sheets, accessing the patient computer system, retrieving completed meals from patient rooms, and recording intake and calorie count information. The position also requires maintaining compliance with all HACCP guidelines, obtaining, transcribing, and processing meal orders from patients and visitors over the telephone, verifying that meal orders meet diet order parameters, and providing appropriate menus for diets. The role demands excellent customer service skills, effective listening, and communication with co-workers, supervisors, and nursing staff, as well as establishing effective working relationships and evaluating and maintaining quality control standards.
Requirements
- On-the-job training provided
Nice To Haves
- Direct customer service experience preferred
- Previous food service experience and/or work with therapeutic diets preferred
Responsibilities
- Helping Patients fill out menus on an Ipad
- Delivering trays
- Communicating with nursing staff
- Serves meals and snacks to patients in a professional manner
- Ensures rotation of floor supplies and maintains supplies up to PAR 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
- 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
- Evaluates and maintains quality control standards
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
