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Dietary Assistant

Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/21/2026 CLOSED ON 4/19/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dietary Assistant position at Rapides Regional Medical Center?

Do you have the career opportunities as a Dietary Assistant you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Rapides Regional Medical Center which is part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Job Summary And Qualifications

The Dietary Assistant will perform a variety of food service tasks involved in food preparation, serving, and storage including food portioning, service, delivery, and sanitation. Promotes a supportive, team work-oriented environment.

What you will do in this role:

  • Promotes meal assistance to patients on a daily basis
  • Tallies food items in a timely manner to hand over to production
  • Places items, such as eating utensils, napkins, and condiments on trays
  • Accurately (according to diet) serves food items, such as sandwiches, salads, soups and beverages
  • Apportions and places food servings on plate and trays according to EFY standards
  • Examines filled tray for completeness and places it on cart
  • Delivers food trays to health care patients observing all hospital regulations on patient identification, isolation, NPO, and hand hygiene
  • Serves trays to patients following scripting and Cares Behaviors
  • Washes dishes and cleans work area, tables, cabinets, and ovens
  • Collects and places garbage and trash in designated containers
  • Maintains positive working relationships with nursing and unit clerks
  • Stocks food pantries according to FIFI and par procedures
  • Prepares and delivers snacks, nourishments, and tube feedings to patients
  • Verbally communicates patient concerns with clinical dietitian education need, inadequate meal consumption, and other patient concerns
  • Able to modify job duties and communicate with customers in an age appropriate manner
  • Willfully performs any other tasks assigned
  • Wear appropriate PPE (Hair Net, Gloves, etc.) as required in designated areas.

What qualifications you will need:

  • High School diploma or GED preferred
  • Food Service and Customer Service experience preferred

Benefits

Rapides Regional Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

  • Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
  • Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
  • Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
  • Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
  • Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
  • Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Rapides Regional Medical Center is a 350 bed hospital and ER in Alexandria, Louisiana. We offer services ranging from Cancer Care to Wound Care. Our medical staff includes doctors in more than 30 medical specialties. At Rapides Regional we believe that well-defined values are the key to nurturing staff and patient satisfaction. By joining our team you contribute to the positive culture of the hospital. This culture impacts the well-being of patients and their families. It also impacts your colleagues, and your own personal job satisfaction. Learn what our commitment to patient satisfaction, service excellence and professional expertise can do for your career.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Dietary Assistant opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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