Nutrition Assistant

St. Joseph's Health; Paterson (NJ); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Joseph's Health in New Jersey seeks a dietary services support role to process and verify patient diet orders. You will coordinate with patients and health care professionals to ensure orders meet prescriptions and document therapeutic or cultural needs on tray tickets.

You will conduct patient rounds to capture meal preferences, assist with menu preparation, and prepare production sheets for hot, cold, and special items while maintaining unit records for management.

Responsibilities

• Process diet orders and receive orders via communication with patients or health care professionals.
• Verify that orders comply with diet prescription.
• Identify needs such as therapeutic, cultural preferences, and food allergies and note those needs with special tray ticket indicator.
• Conduct patient care rounds to obtain patient meal preferences.
• Patient assistance is given for menu preparation.
• Calculate and complete production sheets for Hot and Cold food items and special items.
• Maintain records for manager.

Job description

Process diet orders and receive orders via communication with patients or health care professionals. Verify that orders comply with diet prescription. Identify needs such as therapeutic, cultural preferences, and food allergies and note those needs with special tray ticket indicator. Conduct patient care rounds to obtain patient meal preferences. Patient assistance is given for menu preparation. Calculate and complete production sheets for Hot and Cold food items and special items. Maintain records for manager.