Nutrition Assistant

CommonSpirit Health; Mount Sterling (KY); On-site; USD 22,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Joseph Mount Sterling is seeking a Nutrition Assistant to support healthcare food service operations and help provide optimal nutritional care to patients, guests and staff. You will follow the diet manual and diet spreadsheets to ensure therapeutic meal compliance with prescribed diet orders.

Responsibilities include preparing and serving meals, monitoring temperatures, preventing cross-contamination, and assisting with diet orders and patient food preferences.

Qualifications

• One year of food service experience required.
• Customer service experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and serve food within menu and dietary guidelines.
• Maintain knowledge of ingredients to answer allergy questions.
• Monitor food temperatures and prevent cross-contamination; uphold hygiene.
• Ensure proper meal portioning and appealing presentation; support patient experience.
• Operate electronic diet office software and navigate patient diet orders in EHR.
• Perform general cleaning of equipment and work areas.

Skills

Food service experience

Customer service

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Nutrition Assistant you will participate and supports all aspects of healthcare food service operations. Works with facility staff to provide optimal nutritional care and demonstrates excellent customer service to patients, guests and staff. Follows diet manual handbook and diet spreadsheets to ensure therapeutic meal compliance with prescribed diet order.

• Prepares and serves food within guidelines of menu and dietary requirements using required kitchen utensils and equipment. Maintains knowledge of recipe ingredients to respond to food allergy questions or requests.

• Follows healthcare foodservice industry standards, regulations, guidelines and procedures including monitoring and maintaining food temperatures during cooking, holding, and storage processes. Avoids cross-contamination of foods and adheres to personal hygiene requirements. Maintains proper labeling of food products and ensures storage of food equipment, and machinery per regulations and facility guidelines.

• Follows organizational standards and guidelines for a high quality patient and customer experience. Ensures proper meal portioning and an aesthetically pleasing presentation. Provides service recovery efforts and escalates to leadership as needed.

• May be responsible for one or more of the following: Following therapeutic diet modifications and guidelines including allergy restrictions for all patient meal trays,nourishment, snacks and supplements Printing, providing and following production tool and/or electronic meal tallies/differentials for food preparation Explaining basic therapeutic diet orders and menus and responding to questions from patients and familymembers. Escalating additional patient nutrition questions or needs to appropriate clinical support teammembers. Collecting patient food preferences and ensuring compliance with prescribed diet orders. Distributing foodpreferences to the kitchen for menu planning in a timely manner. Operating electronic diet office software and tools following established procedures and protocols. Navigating electronic health records to access patient diet orders and nutritional reports. Performing general cleaning of equipment and work areas (e.g., cleaning the tray line, equipment, coolers,office area, and emptying trash cans, etc.)

Job Requirements

• One (1) year of Food Service Experience Required.

• High School Graduate or High School GED preferred.

• Customer Service Expereince preferred.

Where You’ll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph Mount Sterling, a not-for-profit, faith-based hospital founded in 1918. Formerly known as Mary Chiles Hospital, Saint Joseph Mount Sterling serves as a 42-bed community hospital and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

Pay Range

$15.92 – $22.79 /hour

We are an equal opportunity employer.