Dietary Aide

Vale-Healthcare-Center; San Pablo (CA); On-site; USD 2,066,000 - 2,755,000; Full time

Job summary

Vale-Healthcare-Center is seeking a Dietary Assistant to support the Dietary Manager and Cook in the preparation and service of meals to residents and patients. You will assist in assembling meal trays, deliver meals and nourishments, help with food preparation, and ensure ware washing and waste disposal are completed efficiently and safely.

This role requires a high school diploma or equivalent and the ability to work in an institutional kitchen environment, with occasional lifting up to 50

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Experience in institutional kitchen environment beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Assist in assembly of meal trays according to physicians' diet orders.
• Deliver meals and nourishments to designated facility locations.
• Assist in the preparation of food items, as directed.
• Complete ware washing and trash disposal.
• Maintain food service equipment and work spaces in a clean and safe condition per facility policies and procedures and applicable regulations.
• Safeguard residents' protected health information according to state and federal law.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

SUMMARY

Assists the Dietary Manager and Cook in the preparation and service of food to residents / patients.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Assists in assembly of meal trays utilizing the planned menus of physicians' diet orders.

Delivers meals and nourishments to designated facility locations.

Assists in the preparation of food items, as directed.

Completes ware washing and trash disposal.

Maintains food service equipment and work spaces in a clean and safe condition at all times per facility policies and procedures and applicable regulations.

ENTRY QUALIFICATIONS

High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

n/a

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND ENVIRONMENT

Working in institutional kitchen environment, employee may be required to sit, bend, stoop, see, talk and hear. May occasionally lift or move items of up to 50 pounds. Employee is occasionally exposed to blood or other body fluids, fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. In compliance with applicable law, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

• THER REQUIREMENTS

By his / her signature below, employee agrees to safeguard the privacy of residents' protected health information from improper use and disclosure according to state and federal law.

Mariner Healthcare reserves the right to discontinue any bonus program at anytime.