Patient Diet & Menu Coordinator

Department of Health, Tasmania; Launceston; On-site; AUD 69,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging benefits

Professional development and pathways

Leave entitlements including study

Job summary

Department of Health Tasmania is seeking a Food Services Monitor to provide and maintain a high standard of clerical and administrative services within the Food Services Department, while maintaining confidentiality and following policies.

You will organise patient menus to meet diet requirements, liaise with dieticians and staff, manage information systems, and support quality, safety and WHS initiatives to ensure smooth daily operations.

Qualifications

• Well-developed interpersonal communication skills and the ability to relate well with patients, relatives and staff at all levels, ability to cooperate with other personnel within the department and work successfully in a team environment, this includes effectively resolving problems that may arise in the daily performance of duties.
• Well-developed clerical skills including telephone, numeracy and literacy skills and basic computer knowledge.
• Knowledge of the range of menus provided and basic restrictions associated with dietary requirements of meals and modified diets, together with the ability to understand and apply written individual dietary instructions and access appropriate diet resources.

Responsibilities

• Provide and maintain a high standard of customer focused clerical and administrative services within the Food Services Department, while maintaining confidentiality and working in accordance with all policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Ensure all information management systems are maintained and processes conducted in accordance with the relevant guidelines and protocol of the Department.
• Organisation of patient menus ensuring they correspond to the patient’s diet requirements.
• Liaise closely with Dieticians, Speech Pathologists, Food Service staff, Nursing staff and patients in matters concerning the provision of meals and variations to the patient diet list.
• Cross check menus against computerised diet reports to ensure patients receive meals appropriate to their requirements.
• Actively participate in and contribute to the organisation’s Quality & Safety and Work Health & Safety processes, including in the development and implementation of safety systems, improvement initiatives, safeguarding practices for vulnerable people, and related training.
• Ensure the day-to-day smooth operation of the Food Monitors Office including accurate and updated menus for printing, answering telephone queries, relaying messages, and communicating information to all relevant parties.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Clerical skills

Dietary knowledge

Job description

Department of Health Tasmania is seeking a Food Services Monitor to provide and maintain a high standard of clerical and administrative services within the Food Services Department, while maintaining confidentiality and following policies.

You will organise patient menus to meet diet requirements, liaise with dieticians and staff, manage information systems, and support quality, safety and WHS initiatives to ensure smooth daily operations.