Job Description

Job Title: Assoc, Catering to You

Job ID(s): 1480

Job Code(s): 80000026

Job Family: Nutrition

FLSA Status: Hourly

Updated: 02/2014

Summary: Responsible for patient food service on assigned units, e.g., menu selections, tray assembly, tray delivery and pick up, special requests and needs, in-between meal food delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Communicates with nursing departments, clinical dieticians, and personnel to provide excellent patient services.
• Introduces the Catering to You Program following the scripted methods to all new patients.
• Takes patient menu selections prior to meals and offers alternatives to menu as allowed on prescribed diet in accordance with food allergies and sensitivities, cultural, ethnic, and religious preferences.
• Assembles trays according to patient menu on tray ticket and retrieves trays from patients’ rooms.
• Complies with regulator agency standards, including federal, state, and JCAHO.
• Adheres to facility confidentiality and patient’s rights policy as outlined in the facilities HIPPA policies and procedures.
• Follows Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) guidelines when handling food and when cleaning work stations and breaking down patient tray line.
• Follows facility and department infection control policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties that may be assigned.

Qualifications:

Education and Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos; write simple correspondence; effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $13.00 - $14.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Day range:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Shift:

• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Morning shift

Work Location: In person

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