Dietary Aide – Healthcare

Job Title: Dietary Aide – Healthcare

Location: Wadena, MN

Hours: Part Time

With over 35 years in the industry, BSG Maintenance, INC. is the premier leader in contracted housekeeping, laundry, and culinary services to medical facilities including long term care, assisted living facilities and hospitals. Come work for a company that cares about its clients and staff. BSG Culinary teams are typically done with work by 7pm, and only are scheduled to work every other weekend and every other holiday.

Culinary Services Aide

We are currently looking to add dietary aides to our Culinary Team! We are looking for someone that is passionate about food, detailed orientated, well groomed, friendly, professional, team player that has a pleasant demeanor and adheres to company policy and procedures. The Culinary Services Aide reports to the Culinary Services Lead and/or the Culinary Services Manager. The aide is responsible for cleaning, dish washing, and serving residents, finishing and double checking the room trays and residents/patient meals for accuracy. The aide assist the cook in preparing and delivering meals that are nutritious and appetizing. Culinary Service aides adhere to the latest guidelines of the Federal Food Code. Essential functions and responsibilities of the position may vary depending on client location and their requirements and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Maintains confidentiality, protects HIPAA Knows resident rights and helps them protect such rights
• Ensures food and other items are stored properly
• Ensures in the proper receiving FIFO, stocking, storing, and preparing of all ingredients for safety and accessibility with proper dating for each step of the receiving process
• Assist in making sandwiches and dishing up desserts
• Maintains proper portion control by following spreadsheets
• Maintains a clean kitchen by washing dishes, sanitizing surfaces, removing trash, and cleaning up after yourself
• Ability to take and record dishwasher temps, drink and dessert temps.
• Maintains all sanitation logs
• Helps with food preparation, makes sandwiches, fills and distributes snack cart, pulls and dates supplements, dates juices/milks
• Understand basic nutrition including therapeutic and mechanically altered diets, also different liquid constancies
• Understands, honors and follows resident/patient preferences and tray cards. Also protects HIPAA
• Cleans and sanitizes food service equipment, appliances and work areas
• Stocks serving areas with needed supplies (condiments, beverages, utensils, etc.)
• Assists with meal service and providing residents desired food and beverage items
• Assists with set-up/clean-up of dining rooms
• Utilizes dish machine appropriately and puts away clean/dry dishes
• Dishes up dessert and dates them
• Record temperatures of drinks/desserts/and dish machine
• Light cleaning of common areas: Sweeps/Mops dining rooms, kitchen, and serving areas
• Assist and maintains all storage areas, makes sure everything is dated and signs off on cleaning schedule
• Assist CNA's in serving breakfast, lunch and supper
• Perform all other kitchen duties as assigned
• Follows all Culinary Services procedures
• Must follow BSG dress code
• Performs all other kitchen duties as assigned by Culinary Services Cook, Culinary Services Manager and Regional Director of Culinary Services
  
  

Education/Prior Work History/Minimum Requirements

• At least 18 years of age
• Ability to use dishwasher and record temps
• Must be able to stand 90% of shift, may require to bend twist, reach above head, and pick up item up to 50lbs
• Must pass a TB Test, and Health Care background check
• Ability to take and achieve ServSafe Foodhandler Certificate