Compassionate Patient Food Service Associate

TouchPoint Support Services; Murfreesboro (TN); On-site; USD 2,232,000 - 2,558,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement Plan

Associate Shopping Program

Health and Wellness Programs

Discount Marketplace

Identity Theft Protection

Pet Insurance

Voluntary Benefits

Job summary

TouchPoint Support Services is hiring immediately for patient server positions at Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford in Murfreesboro, TN. Openings include full-time and part-time schedules with shifts 6:00 am–2:00 pm or 1:00 pm–7:30 pm; weekends and holidays required. Prior food service and customer service experience is required, with pay range $16.32–$18.57 per hour.

Online applications are accepted only. This role involves patient meal service, tray assembly and delivery, and ensuring dietary

Qualifications

• Ability to lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Computer technical skills to operate hospital systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Exhibits a friendly, caring attitude to patients when taking menu selections, delivering trays, inquiring during catering rounds and retrieving trays.
• Takes patients menu selections prior to each meal.
• Complies with dietary restrictions on special, modified diets to ensure optimal food preferences are met within guidelines of diet order limitations.
• Offers alternatives to menu as allowed on prescribed diet in accordance with food allergies and sensitivities, cultural, ethnic and religious preferences, when patient inquires or needs additional selections.
• Assembles trays according to patients' menu selections on tray tickets in a timely and accurate manner.
• Interacts with nursing staff to ensure patients' diet prescriptions are accurate and patients' food needs are met.
• Retrieves trays from patients' rooms.
• Maintains accurate and current information for each patient on assigned unit(s).
• Assists dietitian with monitoring of patients who are NPO, on liquid diets or have a calorie count ordered.

Skills

Lifting up to 100 lbs

Hospital IT systems

Verbal communication

Written communication

Job description

TouchPoint Support Services is hiring immediately for patient server positions at Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford in Murfreesboro, TN. Openings include full-time and part-time schedules with shifts 6:00 am–2:00 pm or 1:00 pm–7:30 pm; weekends and holidays required. Prior food service and customer service experience is required, with pay range $16.32–$18.57 per hour.

Online applications are accepted only. This role involves patient meal service, tray assembly and delivery, and ensuring dietary