Nutrition Assistant II

CommonSpirit Health; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a dedicated Food Service Worker to join their team. This role involves preparing and serving meals while ensuring compliance with dietary guidelines and maintaining high standards of food safety. You will work closely with patients and staff to provide exceptional service and support nutritional care. If you have a passion for food service and a commitment to quality, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a leading healthcare organization dedicated to improving community health.

Qualifications

• 1 year of food service experience is required.
• Texas Food Handler Permit within 30 days of start date.

Responsibilities

• Supports healthcare food service operations and ensures optimal nutritional care.
• Prepares and serves food while adhering to dietary requirements and safety standards.

Skills

Customer Service

Food Safety Knowledge

Dietary Compliance

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Electronic Diet Office Software

Electronic Health Records

Job description

Overview

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. Our team’s efforts have led to the creation of many research programs and initiatives to develop advanced treatments found nowhere else in the world. In our commitment to advancing standards in an ever-evolving healthcare environment, our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education. Our strong alliance with Texas Heart Institute and Baylor College of Medicine allows us to bring our patients a powerful network of care unlike any other. Our collaboration is focused on increasing access to care through a growing network of leading specialists and revolutionizing healthcare to save lives and improve the health of the communities we serve.

Responsibilities

Participates 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.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.)
• Performing other duties as assigned by the leader.

Disclosure summary:
The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• One (1) year of Food Service Experience
• Preferred:
  • High School Diploma
  • Customer Service Experience

Required Licensure and Certifications:

• Texas Food Handler Permit within 30 days of start date.