Dietetic Assistant Per Diem

University of California- Davis Health; California; On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

UC Davis Health in Sacramento seeks a Part-Time Diet Assistant to process and verify diet orders, including infant and tube feeding formulas and fortified expressed breast milk orders. You will modify patient menus, generate reports, and deliver meals with high-quality, personalized service across diet office, kitchen, and nursing units.

The role involves measuring in standard and metric units, maintaining donor breast milk records, coordinating with Dietitians and staff, and communicating

Qualifications

• Experience in a food service environment.
• Ability to read recipes, food ingredient labels and allergen labels.
• Knowledge of standard and metric units of measurement.

Responsibilities

• Provide nutritional care to patients and verify diet orders.
• Assist in quality improvement programs and reporting.

Skills

Food service experience

Customer service

Recipe reading

Unit measurement knowledge

Clear communication

Computer literacy

Education

Associate degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Food service software

Electronic health records (EHR)

iPad/tablet usage

Job description

Location: Sacramento

Full/Part TimePart Time

Job Summary

Under the direction of the Nutrition and Dietary Supervisor 2, this position is responsible for processing and verifying diet orders, ensuring therapeutic accuracy based on the diet order, including infant and tube feeding formulas and fortified breast milk orders. This position modifies patient menus, generates cost reports, production sheets, forecast reports and tallies. This position will work in the diet office, diet kitchen, breastmilk storage rooms, and on nursing units, including direct contact with patients to identify food service-related concerns. This position will assist in identifying patients with nutritional concerns when interviewing patients for daily and next day menu choices, food preferences and food allergy information, monitoring tolerance of diet and nourishments, and providing basic diet information within limits of the diet order. This position will incorporate the patient's food requests into the patient's file in Computrition and may assist in entering the patient menu choices and all food preferences. Responsible in providing and promoting high quality and personalized customer service. This position will obtain and honor food choices and preferences, deliver meals and snacks in a timely manner. Incumbent is responsible for explaining basic nutrition education to patients. Accurately follows appropriate patient identification procedures and diet orders. Utilizes current food service ordering software and technology with proficiency. Utilizing pars set forth by supervisor, determine if additional product is needed to maintain adequate floor stocks. Retrieve product or deliveries from remote location. Independently manages time with the utmost efficiency and responds promptly to patient requests. Responsible for handling all concerns related to meal service, verifying accuracy of orders, quality of presentation, and the provision of solutions through service recovery.

This position is responsible for understanding the precision in measuring and weighing in standard and metric systems, a scale/balance, and graduated cylinders and other equipment needed to prepare infant and adult enteral formulas, fortified expressed breast milk, nourishments, ketogenic and modified textured diets. This position will be responsible to maintain storage, rotation, and intake documentation of expressed and donor breast milk. This position will be responsible for maintaining supplies and ordering donor breast milk. This position is also responsible for cleaning and sanitizing all equipment and working areas. This position works collaboratively with the Dietitians, Diet Technicians, Food Service Staff, Diet Office Staff and Nursing Staff. #CA_DS

Minimum Qualifications - For full consideration, applicants are encouraged to upload license and/or certification if required of the position.

• Experience in food service environment
• Customer service experience to assist patients and cooperate with other staff members and convey a helpful, positive attitude.
• Experience with reading recipes, food ingredient labels and allergen labels.
• Knowledge of and ability to work with standard and metric units of measurement.
• Ability to communicate clearly (oral and written), respond in a timely manner, listen attentively.
• Interpersonal skills to interact effectively in person, in writing and on the telephone with patients and a diverse range of people at various departments in the healthcare system.
• Ability to utilize computers, iPad or tablets and software, including emails and patient electronic health records.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate degree, bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience as Dietetic Assistant in a healthcare environment.
• Experience and knowledge of food service ordering/operation management software.
• Experience and knowledge of diet restrictions, therapeutic diets, food allergies, nutrient analysis of food items and recipes.
• Ability to use expertise to precept and evaluate undergraduate nutrition students.
• Be an advocate of nutrition through informal teaching to medical students, interns, residents and nurses.

Key Responsibilities

• 85% - NUTRITIONAL CARE OF THE PATIENTS
• 15% - PARTICIPATES IN QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

Department Overview

Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) provides for all Food Services and Clinical Nutrition needs for the UC Davis Health Sacramento campus and network of primary and specialty care practices in the greater Sacramento region. We inspire health and healing in our community through sustainable and nourishing food. FNS provides food services