Dietary Aide - Per Diem

TuftsMedicine; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

403(b) retirement with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Free on-campus parking

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Tufts Medicine invites applications for a part-time role in our dietary/food services team at Lowell General Hospital. The position involves preparing and serving meals, managing dietary orders, and delivering patient trays across campus, while maintaining food safety and sanitation standards.

The role supports daily operations in a fast-paced hospital setting, with shifts 3–4 per week, day/evening, including every other weekend and holiday as required.

Qualifications

• Food service experience required.
• High School diploma or equivalent preferred.
• One year in hospital food services preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain diet order information and ensure patients receive meals.
• Assist with menu selection and proper diet modifications.
• Deliver and collect patient trays and maintain sanitation standards.
• Stock pantries and ensure accurate tray assembly and serving.

Skills

Food service experience

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Job description

Tufts Medicine is a leading integrated health system bringing together the best of academic and community health care to deliver exceptional, connected and accessible care experiences to consumers across Massachusetts. Comprised of Tufts Medical Center, Lowell General Hospital, Melrose/Wakefield Healthcare, an expansive home care network and a large clinically integrated physician network, Tufts Medicine has more than 15,000 dedicated employees and caregivers.

Job Profile Summary

This role focuses on activities related to the support services functions, such as dietary and food services, environmental services, general facilities, repair and maintenance, parking, sterilization and transportation to ensure all required support activities are completed in a timely manner and meet the organization's quality standards and expectations. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Dietary & Food Services duties: Prepares and serves meals based on general or special diets. Responsibilities also include operating and maintaining kitchens, cafeterias, and counters across entity locations. Manages food inventories, schedules vendor deliveries, food preparation, and menu planning while adhering to regulatory guidelines. An organizational related support or service (administrative or clerical) role or a role that focuses on support of daily business activities (e.g., technical, clinical, non-clinical) operating in a "hands on" environment. The majority of time is spent in the delivery of support services or activities, typically under supervision. An entry level role that typically requires little to no prior knowledge or experience, work is routine or follows standard procedures, work is closely supervised, and communicates information that requires little explanation or interpretation.

Job Overview

Under general supervision, this position works in any location where food is prepared including retail, patient and catering operations. This position is involved in all aspects of food services including assisting with menu selection, food preparation, food delivery, kitchen cleanliness and sanitation.

Job Description

Minimum Qualifications

• 1. Food service experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1. High School diploma or equivalent.
• 2. One (1) year in hospital food services.

What We Offer

• 403(b) retirement with company match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free on-campus parking
• Career growth opportunities

Location: Lowell General Hospital, Saints Campus - 1 Hospital Drive - Lowell, MA

Hours: 3-4 shifts per week - Day/Evening Shift - Every other weekend (Sat-Sun) and every other holiday is required

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains and communicates accurate and updated diet order information through the system to ensure patients receive appropriate meals, nourishments and commercial enteral products in accordance with current diet order.
• Elicits patient information regarding food preferences, intolerances, likes and dislikes. Alerts the Clinical Dietitian to any actual or potential nutritional problems of patients.
• Assists patients with menu selection and writes and corrects regular and as assigned modified diets for patients. Responsible for maintaining high level of accuracy and appropriateness of patient trays.
• Delivers trays to patients, picks up trays from patients.
• Follows all precautions on patient units by donning and doffing PPE appropriately. Performs hand hygiene according to standards.
• Stocks nursing unit pantries with nourishments and dietary supplies, utilizing first-in, first-out system.
• Ensures accurate tray assembly on patient tray line. Prepares normal menu items, salads, sandwiches, desserts, and special items.
• Operates a variety of kitchen utensils to weigh, measure, mix, wash, peel, cut, grind, stir, strain, season and knead food items for cooking, serving and storing
• Assists in the preparation of hot and/or cold foods, and properly stores food, utilizing knowledge of temperature requirements and spoilage.
• Maintains accurate sanitation and temperature logs in work area according to regulatory requirements.
• Assists with setup, stocking, serving and delivering of food from counters, steam tables and work stations
• Responsible for cleaning and sanitizing of dishware, equipment and work stations. Strips, sanitizes, stacks, patients' trays and utensils in dish room, reassembles tray line. Cleans and sanitizes pots and utensils equipment, floors, walls, dish machine, etc
• Removes trash from assigned workstation and/or from kitchen to specified area. Returns empty bottles and cans to recycle bin located in receiving /loading dock area. Removes crushed cardboard to designated areas.
• Maintains collaborative, team relationships with peers and colleagues i