Nutrition Assistant 2

St Johns Hospital Camarillo; United States; Presencial; USD 19.000 - 25.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Dignity Health - St. John's Hospital Camarillo is seeking a Nutrition Assistant to support high-quality food services for patients and staff.

You will prepare and deliver meals, assist with preparation, maintain cleanliness, and ensure food safety compliance while interacting with patients about dietary needs. The role emphasizes meticulous attention to detail, strong food safety practices, and delivering an excellent dining experience in a hospital environment.

Qualificações

• 1 year of foodservice experience.
• High School Diploma or GED at hire.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsabilidades

• Prepare and serve meals following menu and dietary requirements; know recipe ingredients to answer allergy questions.
• Monitor and maintain food temperatures; prevent cross-contamination; follow hygiene guidelines.
• Ensure high quality patient and customer experience through proper portioning and presentation; escalate to leadership when needed.
• Print and follow production tools and meal tallies; respond to questions about diet orders.
• Explain basic therapeutic diet orders to patients; collect patient food preferences and relay to kitchen.
• Operate electronic diet office software and navigate patient diet orders in EHR.
• Clean equipment and work areas as part of routine duties.

Conhecimentos

Attention to detail

Food safety knowledge

Customer service

Formação

High School Diploma

GED

Equivalent education/experience

Ferramentas

Electronic diet office software

Electronic health records (EHR)

Descrição da vaga

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1974, Dignity Health - St. John's Hospital Camarillo is a 58-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital. Serving over 40,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including emergency, heart, orthopedic, and cancer care. Additionally, St. John's Hospital Camarillo has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It has been awarded the AMA/ASA's Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement three years in a row, recognizing the hospital's commitment to providing the best stroke care. It was recently named a Leapfrog 2025 Top General Hospital.

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Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Nutrition Assistant, you will assist in delivering high-quality, safe, and efficient food services to patients and staff. Every day you will prepare and deliver meal trays, assist with food preparation, maintain cleanliness, ensure food safety compliance, and interact with patients regarding dietary needs. To be successful, you will demonstrate meticulous attention to detail, strong food safety knowledge, and excellent customer service, contributing to a positive dining experience.

• 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.

• 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 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 foodservice experience and
• High School Graduate General Studies, upon hire or
• High School GED General Studies, upon hire or
• Equivalent combination of education and experience
• None, upon hire