Nutrition Assistant

As a Nutrition Assistant you will participate and supports all aspects of healthcare food service operations. Works with facility staff to provide optimal nutritional care and demonstrates excellent customer service to patients guests and staff. Follows diet manual handbook and diet spreadsheets to ensure therapeutic meal compliance with prescribed diet order.

• 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.)

• One (1) year of Food Service Experience Required.
• High School Graduate or High School GED preferred.
• Customer Service Expereince preferred.

Welcome to Saint Joseph Mount Sterling a not-for-profit faith-based hospital founded in 1918. Formerly known as Mary Chiles Hospital Saint Joseph Mount Sterling serves as a 42-bed community hospital and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health a non-profit Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175000 employees and 25000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

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