Nutrition Assistant

Saint Joseph Hospital - Mount Sterling; Mount Sterling (KY); On-site; USD 26,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Joseph Mount Sterling is seeking a Nutrition Assistant to support our healthcare food service operations and ensure therapeutic meal compliance with prescribed diets. You will work with facility staff to deliver safe, nourishing meals and excellent patient and staff service.

This role handles food preparation and serving within dietary guidelines, responds to allergy questions, and uses electronic diet office tools and patient records to verify orders.

Qualifications

• One (1) year of Food Service Experience Required.
• High School Graduate or High School GED preferred.
• Customer Service Expereince preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and serves food within guidelines of menu and dietary requirements using required kitchen utensils and equipment.
• Follows healthcare foodservice industry standards, regulations, guidelines and procedures including monitoring and maintaining food temperatures during cooking, holding, and storage processes.
• Follows organizational standards and guidelines for a high quality patient and customer experience.
• Escalates patient nutrition questions or needs to appropriate clinical support team members.
• Collects patient food preferences and ensures compliance with prescribed diet orders.

Skills

Customer Service

Food Service

Education

High School Diploma

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 family members. Escalating additional patient nutrition questions or needs to appropriate clinical support team members.
  
  
  • Collecting patient food preferences and ensuring compliance with prescribed diet orders. Distributing food preferences 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.