Senior Dietary Worker

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Job Summary

Sr. Dietary Worker performs a variety of duties relating to delivery and serving patient's food trays and assisting patients in menu selection, and retrieval of food carts. Acts as a critical liaison between patient and Food Service Department.

Essential Functions

• Deliver, serve, and retrieve patient food trays.
  * To ensure each patient's dietary needs are met.
• Assist patients in menu selection.
  * To identify food preferences.
• Assemble and deliver early/late trays.
  * To ensure each patient's dietary needs are met.
• Deliver bulk stock, supplements, and tube feeding to units/patient rooms and return unused cans to the main kitchen.
  * Units are sufficiently stocked.
• Collect all soiled trays and utensils from units (including isolation rooms) on a timely basis and transport trucks to dish room.
  * Patient rooms are free of soiled trays and utensils.
• Ensure the patient receives an accurate and complete food tray. Handle tray errors and late trays.
  * There must be 100% tray accuracy at all times.
• By a pre-established schedule, transport food trucks to patient floors.
  * To ensure that all patients are fed on a preset schedule.
• By a pre-established schedule retrieves food trucks from patient floors.
  * To assure soiled food trucks are clean and available for the next meal.
• Provides and maintains a safe environment through preventative and interventional measures.
  * Adherence to MMC's Infection Control, Safety, and Disaster P & P's. Tags and removes broken equipment immediately. Communicates information regarding broken equipment to the charge person of the unit.
• Maintains required standards set forth by the NYSDOH by maintaining sanitary and safety standards.
  * Visual inspections by Supervisors who refer to a checklist as mandated by the NYSDOH.
• Trains other employees in his/her area of responsibility.
  * To assure competent coverage of this position when a regular associate is not available.
• Utilizes effective interpersonal skills to communicate and collaborate effectively with the Food and Nutrition Team.
  * 100% compliance to quality. Communicates observations of patient/customer status to professionals. Assists other staff members on a team within the scope of practice. Interacts with co-workers in a manner that promotes team building.
• Is responsible and accountable for own actions.
  * Adheres to MMC'S HR P & P. Reports on/off duty to designated Supervisor for the smooth running of the operation.

Qualifications

• * High School diploma or equivalent.
  * Pushing Food Truck
  * Experience in customer service
  * Knowledge and experience in food safety.
  * Must be able to work every other weekends and holidays.
  * OHS Fit Test
  * OHS Annual Assessment