Hospital Diet Aide - Full-Time Food Service

Advocate Health; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 26,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health benefits

Flexible spending accounts

Retirement plan

Educational assistance

Job summary

Advocate Health is seeking a Food Service Assistant at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee. This full-time role supports dietary service operations, handles diet orders, room service calls, and tray assembly, with morning shifts and every other weekend/holiday.

Strong customer service, organization, and basic computer skills are required. Training provided; compensation aligns with pay range and benefits package available to eligible teammates.

Qualifications

• Customer service and communication skills.
• Good organizational and time management skills.
• Basic computer skills in Microsoft Office (Excel and Word) or similar products.

Responsibilities

• Receives diet changes throughout the day, i.e. diet orders, patient admissions, cancellations, transfers, special physician or dietitian orders such as tube feedings and supplements, requests for late trays and diet instructions.
• Checks menus for completeness and accuracy; refers problems to the Dietitian.
• Answers room service phone and obtains meal selections from patients based on current diet order.
• Prints off tube feedings and nourishment labels; checks labels for accuracy.
• Maintains department files. Enters all supplements, tube feedings, snacks, other food allergies and patient preferences into the card file.
• Accurately performs duties or answers questions regarding dietary procedures, nutrition services procedures, write-ins, foods allowed on all modified diets, guest tray procedures, isolation procedures etc.
• Prepares food production reports. Prints off missed meals and tray counts.
• Inventories and orders supplies/forms or communicates need for supplies to the Manager, Supervisor or Lead.
• Operates a cash register and completes cash handling functions.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Time management

Basic computer skills

Education

High School Graduate

Job description

Advocate Health is seeking a Food Service Assistant at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee. This full-time role supports dietary service operations, handles diet orders, room service calls, and tray assembly, with morning shifts and every other weekend/holiday.

Strong customer service, organization, and basic computer skills are required. Training provided; compensation aligns with pay range and benefits package available to eligible teammates.