Culinary Diet Technician

Intermountain Health; Wheat Ridge (CO); On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, is seeking a part-time Nutrition Services team member to provide patient meals under standardized guidelines. You will interact with clinical caregivers, patients, and families to explain the meal process and modify selections per provider orders.

Key duties include taking and modifying meal selections, checking trays, inputting nutrition data, performing calorie counts when required, and delivering trays.

Qualifications

• Food Handler Permit or ServSafe Certification required by first day (Utah/Idaho only).
• Experience with modified diets preferred.
• Strong customer service skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Takes patient meal selections and modifies them per provider orders.
• Checks trays for accuracy during meal assembly.
• Communicates clearly with clinical and culinary staff.
• Collects and inputs nutrition screening information.
• Performs calorie counts and nutrition analyses as dictated by facility.
• Uses a computer to run reports and take orders.
• Delivers and presents trays to patients using the standard process.
• Prepares salads, sandwiches, vegetables, and fruit per standard recipes.
• Follows standardized Nutrition Services practices.
• Performs accurate credit transactions and resolves basic customer issues.

Skills

Nutrition

Diet Management

Computer Literacy

Interpersonal Communication

Active Listening

Coordinating tasks with others

Patient Interactions

Attention to detail

Education

Food Handler Permit or ServSafe Certification

Job description

Job Description

Provides nutrition services to patients utilizing standardized guidelines. This position interacts with clinical caregivers, patients, and patient’s family members to explain the meal process and modify meal selections according to provider orders.

Provides nutrition services to patients utilizing standardized guidelines. This position interacts with clinical caregivers, patients, and patient’s family members to explain the meal process and modify meal selections according to provider orders.

Posting Specifics

Pay Rate: Based on Experience

Shift Details: Part-Time (30hrs/wk)

Every other weekend and PM shifts only 10:30am-7pm or 11:15a-7:45pm or 3pm-7pm or 3:30pm-7:30pm or 3:45pm-7:45pm

Additional Details

Not located in the new main hospital campus, but in an office building on the old campus.

Essential Functions

• Takes patient meal selections and modifies them using system standards to meet provider orders.
• Checks trays for accuracy during meal assembly.
• Communicates clearly to both clinical and culinary caregivers.
• Collects and inputs nutrition screening information
• May complete calorie count and nutrition analysis as dictated by facility
• Utilizes a computer to run reports and take orders.
• Delivers and presents trays to patients using the standard process.
• Performs food preparation functions according to system standards (following standard recipe, assembling ingredients) for example, prepares salads, sandwiches, vegetables, and fruit.
• Follows standardized practices relating to Nutrition Services (e.g. dining experience, meal delivery and maintaining required stock levels)
• Performs accurate credit transactions according to system standards and independently resolves basic customer service issues.

Skills

• Nutrition
• Diet Management
• Computer Literacy
• Interpersonal Communication
• Active Listening
• Coordinating tasks with others
• Patient Interactions
• Attention to detail

Qualifications

• Food Handler Permit or ServSafe Certification is required by first day of work (required ONLY in the states of Utah and Idaho). Remote and off-site caregivers are exempt.
• Demonstrated ability to work with modified diets (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred)

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment. Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
• Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.

Location

Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital

Work City

Wheat Ridge

Work State

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours

30

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$18.40 - $23.92

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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