Dietary Aide

Riverview Health & Rehabilitation Center; Savannah (GA); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverview Health & Rehabilitation Center is seeking a dependable kitchen aide to support meal preparation, tray service, and nourishment delivery for patients. You will assist cooks, prepare snacks, and ensure meals align with diet orders while maintaining sanitation standards.

Responsibilities include tray setup, ordering substitutions, cleaning equipment, and following infection control policies. The role requires customer-facing interactions and reliable teamwork in a healthcare kitchen

Responsibilities

• Assists cook in preparing desserts or snacks for patients.
• Assists cook in preparation of meals.
• Carries trays to patients on halls.
• Helps with salads and desserts and other dishes.
• Assists with pouring of juice, milk, water and tea.
• Prepares between meal nourishments (makes sandwiches, etc).
• Cleans work areas at the end of shift and after meals, including sweeping and mopping.
• Removes garbage from kitchen areas and hoses out garbage containers.
• Complies with infection control policies in the work area.
• Scrapes dishes, washes dishes, pots and pans.
• Records freezer and walk-in refrigerator temperatures in accordance with established procedures.
• Checks stock as needed.
• Puts up stock in appropriate manner
• Stores cleaning materials appropriately.
• Sets up tray line and performs tray line service.
• Follows diet orders and NPO diet orders.
• Offers menu substitutions and records them in accordance with procedural guidelines.
• Properly stores leftover/opened food.
• Serves nourishments in accordance with procedural guidelines.
• Makes coffee/tea as requested.
• Cleans kitchen equipment.

Job description

• Assists cook in preparing desserts or snacks for patients.
• Assists cook in preparation of meals.
• Carries trays to patients on halls.
• Helps with salads and desserts and other dishes.
• Assists with pouring of juice, milk, water and tea.
• Prepares between meal nourishments (makes sandwiches, etc).
• Cleans work areas at the end of shift and after meals, including sweeping and mopping.
• Removes garbage from kitchen areas and hoses out garbage containers.
• Complies with infection control policies in the work area.
• Scrapes dishes, washes dishes, pots and pans.
• Records freezer and walk-in refrigerator temperatures in accordance with established procedures.
• Checks stock as needed.
• Puts up stock in appropriate manner
• Stores cleaning materials appropriately.
• Sets up tray line and performs tray line service.
• Follows diet orders and NPO diet orders.
• Offers menu substitutions and records them in accordance with procedural guidelines.
• Properly stores leftover/opened food.
• Serves nourishments in accordance with procedural guidelines.
• Makes coffee/tea as requested.
• Cleans kitchen equipment.