Room Service Assistant - Sanford Medical Center - PT Evenings

Sanford Health•Fargo, ND

5d•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 position involves performing a variety of duties related to food service for patients, including serving meals and snacks, managing floor supplies, delivering menus, and instructing patients on meal ordering systems. The role requires effective communication with various healthcare staff, utilization of computerized systems for diet orders and patient information, and adherence to HACCP guidelines. The Room Service Assistant will also be responsible for obtaining and processing meal orders, ensuring they meet diet order parameters, and maintaining excellent customer service skills.

Requirements

Candidate will be required to work a minimum of 16 hours every two weeks including every other weekend and holiday.
Weekday shifts vary and shift time is 330-830pm or 4-830pm.

Nice To Haves

Direct customer service experience preferred.
Previous food service experience and/or work with therapeutic diets preferred.
On-the-job training provided.

Responsibilities

Performs a variety of duties involved with food service for patients.
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.