Dietary Aide

Reports to: Dietary Manager

Location: Heartland Care Center

POSITION SUMMARY: The morning aide helps open up the kitchen with the morning cook, assemble/operate the dish machine, prepare diet order sheets for residents, answer resident food orders, and deliver trays to resident rooms. He/She is responsible for restocking and organizing supplies in the kitchen and other areas of the hospital. The afternoon aide helps the morning aide with answering the phone, delivering resident trays, setting up hospital meetings, washing and putting away dishes, serving in the cafeteria, disassembling the dish machine, and restocking kitchen supplies as well as stocking other areas of the hospital.

Anticipated Schedule: Mornings: Part-time Afternoons: 4pm-8pm. Work every other weekend and three holidays a year

• Preferred: High School Diploma or GED

License/Registration/Certification:

• Required: ServSafe™ certified OR to be obtained upon training

Experience:

• Preferred: Experience in the foodservice industry

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, required
• Highly developed problem-solving skills
• Ability to adapt to flexible work schedules and frequent interruptions.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Time management skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to perform in a face paced environment

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Answers resident phone orders.
• Works with different diets based on the resident’s dietary needs.
• Assembles resident trays according to menu selection and diet using proper portion control.
• Makes deliveries of meals, snacks and supplements for residents and/or hospital meetings.
• Restocks kitchen items and areas that dietary supplies throughout the hospital.
• Ensures proper temperature logs for freezers and refrigerators that dietary supply.
• Assembles hospital meeting meals and tableware.
• Cleans, mops, washes dishes, puts away dishes.
• Assists with truck inventory.