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As a Nutrition Assistant, you will assist in delivering high-quality, safe, and efficient food services to patients and staff.
Job Responsibility
Prepares and serves food within guidelines of menu and dietary requirements using required kitchen utensils and equipment
Maintains knowledge of recipe ingredients to respond to food allergy questions or requests
Follows healthcare foodservice industry standards, regulations, guidelines and procedures including monitoring and maintaining food temperatures during cooking, holding, and storage processes
Avoids cross-contamination of foods and adheres to personal hygiene requirements
Maintains proper labeling of food products and ensures storage of food equipment, and machinery per regulations and facility guidelines
Follows organizational standards and guidelines for a high quality patient and customer experience
Ensures proper meal portioning and an aesthetically pleasing presentation
Provides service recovery efforts and escalates to leadership as needed
May be responsible for one or more of the following: following therapeutic diet modifications and guidelines including allergy restrictions for all patient meal trays, nourishment, snacks and supplements
Printing, providing and following production tool and/or electronic meal tallies/differentials for food preparation
Explaining basic therapeutic diet orders and menus and responding to questions from patients and family members
Escalating additional patient nutrition questions or needs to appropriate clinical support team members
Collecting patient food preferences and ensuring compliance with prescribed diet orders
Distributing food preferences to the kitchen for menu planning in a timely manner
Operating electronic diet office software and tools following established procedures and protocols
Navigating electronic health records to access patient diet orders and nutritional reports
Performing general cleaning of equipment and work areas (e.g., cleaning the tray line, equipment, coolers, office area, and emptying trash cans, etc.)