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Dietary Aide Duties and Responsibilities
A dietary aide’s key duties include helping prepare food for residents who require help eating their meals. The dietary aides work side-by-side with their dietary managers to prepare meals.
They also help with cleaning, maintaining the kitchen, taking down, and setting up the dining areas. Other duties include delivering food to residents, serving, and preparing snacks, and taking stock of kitchen supplies and food.
Dietary aides must know the protocols of food processes for their facilities, along with the rules for the states where they currently work.
Other duties include :
Skills
Dietary aides are required to possess certain skills that enable them to carry out their assigned duties more efficiently.
These skills include paying attention to detail and having the ability to properly follow instructions for dietary needs, reading recipes, and meal orders.
Their dietary aide should also have the physical potential to prepare food, assist the residents in eating and serving meals, along with being able to handle kitchen equipment and also clean up after meals.
Besides their physical skills, a dietary aide should also be compassionate, understanding, and gentle when working with residents, as well as their family members.
Requirements
Working Routine Qualifications
The regular day of a dietary aide consists of working under the dietary manager and assisting residents when they need it.
Extra work tasks may include passing around food trays to their designated rooms and at their designated times, following state and federal regulations concerning food safety, returning dirty dishes to the kitchen for cleaning and tidying up dining areas, receiving, and stocking supplies or food, following safety guidelines when working, and avoiding any food contamination by storing it properly.
Dietary aides working in health care facilities usually spend most of their time standing and walking around carrying out different tasks.
During their day-to-day activities, a dietary aide may have to indulge in activities that involve lifting around 50 pounds in goods such as food supplies.
Working in the kitchen may also mean having to deal with extreme temperature shifts, from extra heat in the cooking area to freezing temperatures when working in the walk-in-freezers.
Shift Needed :
11a-7p (4 days on, 2 off)
Last updated : 2024-05-08
Full Time
$24k-31k (estimate)
07/21/2023
06/21/2024
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