Dietary Aide - Per Diem, Patient Meals

Wood County Hospital Assn; Bowling Green (OH); On-site; USD 24,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Wood County Hospital is seeking a Dietary Aide to support daily kitchen operations and patient meal service. This per diem role involves assembling prepared foods, delivering trays, preparing nourishments, and maintaining sanitary work areas in accordance with infection control practices.

You will work either independently or with a team on a moving assembly line in the main kitchen, assisting with dishwashing, fruit prep, and dessert plating while showing respect and dignity to patients and

Responsibilities

• Assembles prepared foods accurately for regular or modified diet trays, safely delivers trays to serving areas or to patients, and returns trays to clean-up areas.
• May prepare and serve between meal nourishments for patients.
• May work alone or as part of a team effectively on a moving assembly line in the main kitchen.
• May accurately and safely tend and load machines that clean food-service items or may hand wash items that are not machine washable.
• Delivers clean dishes and utensils to proper kitchen units.
• Observes infection control practices at all times.
• Thoroughly washes and cleans fruits and vegetables and peels, dices, shreds, or slices them using kitchen hand utensils.
• May prepare sandwiches or other dishes as needed.
• Maintains good working relationship both within the department and with other departments.
• Treats patient and families with respect and dignity.
• Prepares serving of desserts and appetizers by preparing fruit cups, cutting pies into individual portions, and placing other desserts on individual dishes.
• Performs accurately other duties for which he/she has been trained.
• Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job description

Wood County Hospital is seeking a Dietary Aide to support daily kitchen operations and patient meal service. This per diem role involves assembling prepared foods, delivering trays, preparing nourishments, and maintaining sanitary work areas in accordance with infection control practices.

You will work either independently or with a team on a moving assembly line in the main kitchen, assisting with dishwashing, fruit prep, and dessert plating while showing respect and dignity to patients and