Dietary and Food Service Aide

TuftsMedicine; United States; On-site; USD 19,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

TuftsMedicine is seeking a part-time Food Service Associate to support dietary and food service operations across hospital locations. The role involves meal preparation, tray assembly, delivery to patients, and maintaining sanitation standards in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include documenting diet orders, accommodating patient preferences, and coordinating with dietitians to ensure nutritional accuracy while adhering to safety protocols and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: Food service experience.
• Preferred qualifications: High School diploma or equivalent; one year in hospital food services.

Responsibilities

• Maintains accurate diet order information to ensure patients receive meals.
• Gathers patient food preferences and flags nutritional issues to the dietitian.
• Assists with menu selection and prepares modified diets.
• Delivers trays to patients and collects trays.
• Follows PPE and hand hygiene standards.
• Stocks unit pantries with nourishments and supplies.
• Assists with tray assembly and prepares menu items.
• Operates kitchen utensils to prepare, weigh, measure, and store foods.
• Maintains sanitation and temperature logs.
• Cleans and sanitizes dishware and work stations.
• Removes trash and handles recyclables.
• Maintains collaborative team relationships.

Skills

Food service experience

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Job description

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.

Hours: Part-Time, 24Hrs/Week. Tues-Fri 8am-2pm.

Location: Haverhill, MA - High Pointe House.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. 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.
2. Elicits patient information regarding food preferences, intolerances, likes and dislikes. Alerts the Clinical Dietitian to any actual or potential nutritional problems of patients.
3. 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.
4. Delivers trays to patients, picks up trays from patients.
5. Follows all precautions on patient units by donning and doffing PPE appropriately. Performs hand hygiene according to standards.
6. Stocks nursing unit pantries with nourishments and dietary supplies, utilizing first-in, first-out system.
7. Ensures accurate tray assembly on patient tray line. Prepares normal menu items, salads, sandwiches, desserts, and special items.
8. 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
9. Assists in the preparation of hot and/or cold foods, and properly stores food, utilizing knowledge of temperature requirements and spoilage.
10. Maintains accurate sanitation and temperature logs in work area according to regulatory requirements.
11. Assists with setup, stocking, serving and delivering of food from counters, steam tables and work stations
12. 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
13. 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.
14. Maintains collaborative, team relationships with peers and colleagues in order to effectively contribute to the working groups achievement of goals, and to help foster a positive work environment.
15. May prepare special nutritional products such as infant formulas, modular tube feedings, or powdered nutritionals for high-risk adult patients.
16. May operate a cash register (or equivalent), receives payments of cash, checks and charges from customers or employees for goods or services, making change and issuing receipts or tickets to customers.

Physical Requirements

1. Standing and walking for 95% of the day, straining and lifting approximately 30lbs., pushing loaded carts (approximately 400lbs.).
2. Requires manual dexterity to handle money, work cash r