What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dietary Aide/Dishwasher position at Cambridge Health and Rehabilitation Center?
Dietary Aide Job Responsibilities:
- Ensures patients menu selections are in compliance with prescribed diet order, nutritional adequacy, age, cultural background, and religious practice.
- Obtains menu choices from patients and guests via phone order or patient visitation.
- Ensures meal orders have been transmitted to correct location for meal preparation.
- Processes patient menu selections utilizing computerized diet office system.
- Updates, monitors, and follows-up on all pertinent information such as new patient admissions, discharges, transfers, diet order changes, food allergies, food preferences and food requests.
- Communicates pertinent information to dietitian.
- Writes and modifies menus as needed according to patient diet prescription using established resources/guidelines.
- Clarifies unclear or missing diet orders with nursing staff.
- Prints and processes patient food service reports, including meal census and food tally report.
- Records all assigned data such as patient meal census and floor stock requests on paper logs or electronic spreadsheet.
- Offers patients appropriate alternate food and beverage choices.
- Resolves patient requests/complaints or relays to appropriate staff (e.g. dietitian, nursing staff).
- Assists members, staff and visitors who enter Food and Nutrition Services office.
- Assists with room service delivery as needed, including assembling patient trays, loading carts, and delivering meals to patients.
- Checks accuracy of meal tray against printed tray ticket menu.
- Substitutes appropriate foods on tray line as necessary.
- Serves as a dietary resource for nursing and other staff.
- Resolves problems with patient trays.
- Provides general information on diet utilizing approved materials and resources.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $12.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
Salary : $12