Dietary Assistant

Sullivan County Community Hospital; Sullivan (IN); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Sullivan County Community Hospital in Sullivan, Indiana, is seeking a Dietary Assistant to support meal service in our hospital cafeteria and kitchen. You will follow recipes, assist with tray assembly, maintain cleanliness, and ensure safety and sanitation standards during daily meal preparation.

The role emphasizes customer service, teamwork, and adherence to HACCP guidelines, with responsibilities spanning food prep, dishwashing, stock handling, and assisting in Meal on Wheels programs as

Qualifications

• Requires a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Requires one year of public food service training.
• Minimum one year public food service & commercial food preparation experience.
• Ability to communicate with the public professionally and courteously.
• Ability to follow standardized recipes and manage multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Greets customers and ensures a pleasant visit.
• Prepares equipment and setup for cafeteria service.
• Places and portions food items and beverages for service.
• Maintains cleanliness and attractive appearance of all department areas.
• Performs dishwashing and maintains sanitation of dish machine and prep areas.
• Assists in menu review and daily food preparation.
• Prepares items for Meals on Wheels and cafeteria as directed.
• Follows HACCP and sanitation procedures 100% of the time.

Skills

Public food service

Customer relations

Food preparation

Follow recipes

Multi-tasking

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

One year public food service training

Tools

CPR

ServSafe Certification

Job description

Dietary Assistant

Full Time Manual Labor Sullivan, IN, US

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• High School diploma or equivalent
• One year public food service training

Experience/Skills

• One year public food service & commercial food preparation experience
• Understands public customer relations and communicates with the public in a professional, courteous, and helpful manner
• Maintains current and on-going working knowledge of food preparation
• Demonstrates the ability to follow standardized recipes
• Coordinates skills to accomplish more than one activity at a time

Required Licenses/Certifications

• CPR
• ServSafe Certification

Working Conditions

ROUTINE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Consistently complies with established Behavioral Expectations

Customer Service

• Greets customers with a positive reflection of the services provided to make the visit pleasant and accommodating
• Prepares all equipment for the service of the meals including steam table, beverage area, cash register, salad bar area, tables and seating, and tray set-up station when assigned to cafeteria
• Places dishes, silverware, hot and cold foods, baked goods, beverages, desserts, condiments, and salad bar foods in the units in a timely manner to meet the hours of service for the cafeteria when assigned to cafeteria
• Serves food cost effectively and with attention to predetermined portioning to all customers equally 100% of the time
• Keeps all areas of the department clean and attractive

Product Compliance

• Performs dishwashing services accurately and without delay to within appropriate time frames
• Maintains dish machine and pot and pan area in clean, sanitized conditions at all times
• Reviews menus and assembles food/supplies as needed for daily preparation
• Follows standardized recipes and maintains established policies and procedures, standards and practices in food preparation to achieve department goals and objectives
• Prepares specialty items for special functions as directed that are appropriate for the function
• Prepares food items for the cafeteria and for Meals on Wheels that are attractively presented and that allow for variety as directed to promote customer satisfaction and sales
• Places stock in correct area and reports any outages and shortages to management immediately
• Washes pots and pans with correct sanitizing techniques 100% of the time
• Sweeps and mops floors thoroughly
• Receives and stocks storage areas
• Assists in care and maintenance of department facilities and equipment supplies as directed
• Follows established department policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, environmental cleanliness, and infection control 100% of the time
• Assists in closing department to ensure safety and security of the area with 100% compliance to procedures

Therapeutic Compliance

• Correctly assembles meal trays according to diet requirements 100% of the time
• Is knowledgeable of meal services for general diets, therapeutic diets, pediatrics, geriatric, and nursing mothers
• Maintains consistent awareness of therapeutic diets by the study of the current diet manual and attending in-service education on therapeutic needs
• Reads and modifies menus correctly 100% of the time
• Assembles trays on the assigned trayline position involving duties such as placement of hot and cold beverages, loading food carts in the correct room order, delivering meal carts to the correct units, retrieving cards, etc.
• Keeps patient cardex current when taking messages and orders from the nursing units
• Prepares nourishment according to therapeutic needs
• Prepares accurate counts for items needed for trayline services and prevents delay in service 100% of the time

Food Service Sanitation/Safety

• 100% compliance with all Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) and sanitation regulations
• Prevents injury by following all safety regulations
• Follows sanitation procedures of the department as governed by State, Federal, and HACCP regulations
• Documents required cleaning/temperature monitoring and reports variances to the supervisor/director.

Other Responsibilities

• Maintains temperature charts, cafeteria meal count, and money count daily
• Prepares monies in par values daily and requests change in whole forms per accounting policy
• Secures cash register when leaving area
• Maintains cafeteria furniture in good condition