Dietary Aide part-time

Encore Healthcare Services; Newark (DE); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Encore Health Services seeks a Dietary Aide to prepare and serve therapeutic diet trays to health center residents in accordance with posted diet menus. You will assist with desserts, salads, and meal service in the health center, ensuring proper setup and sanitation.

The role emphasizes teamwork, precise portioning, and compliance with diet orders, while maintaining hygiene and safety standards. Previous nursing home food service experience is preferred, and empathy for residents is essential.

Qualifications

• Understand and follow instructions in English, communicate effectively, and perform simple arithmetic.
• Prev. experience in nursing home food service preferred.
• Plan and organize work, set up trays and plates per diet orders.

Responsibilities

• Prepares therapeutic desserts and salads as required.
• Serves meals in the health center.
• Sets up tables in the health center dining room and breaks down after meals.
• Transports hot and cold foods to and from the health center.
• Transports non-food items to and from the health center.

Skills

English comprehension

Communication

Arithmetic

Measurements & conversions

Planning & organization

Empathy

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The Dietary Aide is responsible for preparing and serving therapeutic diet trays to health center residents in accordance with posted therapeutic diet menus.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES

Essential Job Duties

• Prepares therapeutic desserts and salads as required.
• Serves meals in the health center.
• Sets up tables in the health center dining room and breaks down same after meal.
• Transports hot and cold foods to and from the health center.
• Transports all required non food items to and from the health center.

Other Duties

• Maintains station equipment and work area in safe and sanitary condition.
• Maintains acceptable standards of personal hygiene and complies with department dress code.
• Attends in-service training and education sessions as assigned.
• Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

HOSPITALITY FOCUS

Encore Health Services fully embrace a culture of hospitality. To that end, we include the following hospitality promises as a guide for our interpersonal interactions with residents, co-workers, and guests:

• We greet residents, employees and guests warmly, by name and with a smile.
• We treat everyone with courteous respect.
• We strive to anticipate resident, employee and guest needs and act accordingly.
• We listen and respond enthusiastically in a timely manner.
• We hold ourselves and one another accountable.
• We embrace and value our differences.
• We make residents, employees and guests feel important.
• We ask “Is there anything else I can do for you?”
• We maintain high levels of professionalism, both in conduct and appearance, at all times.
• We pay attention to details

WELLNESS FOCUS

Employees are expected to promote a healthy community culture for all residents and employees. This is a whole-person approach to health and wellness which includes eight dimensions of wellness: Emotional, Environmental, Health Services, Intellectual, Physical, Social, Spiritual and Vocational. Through these efforts we can ensure and exceed residents’ wellness needs relating to their mind, body and soul, which may also have a positive effect on the employees, as a result.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to understand and follow instructions in English, communicate effective, and perform simple arithmetic. Ability to understand measurements and conversions.
• Previous experience in nursing home food service preferred.
• Ability to plan and organize work, set up trays and plates in accordance with diet orders and interpret specifications and standards.
• Ability to work in close cooperation with residents, guests, visitors, families, supervisor and peers. Requires empathy for the elderly.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORKING CONDITIONS

Works indoors; must be able to stand/walk for 100% of the work day; must be able to lift and carry up to 30 lbs. independently; must be able to push and pull tray/bus/transport carts weighing up to 50 lbs. independently; must be able to bend, stoop, reach, and balance frequently throughout the work day. May be exposed to extreme temperatures from the ovens and freezers. Must be able to see, hear, and speak. May be exposed to industrial cleaning chemicals, communicable diseases including the HIV and Hepatitis B virus, and offensive odors.

This organization does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of ancestry, race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, military status, veteran status, or disability. No question on the application is intended to secure information to be used for such discrimination. This application will be given every consideration, however its receipt does not imply employment for the applicant.