Nutrition Assistant II

St Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center; Pasadena (TX); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center in Pasadena, TX, seeks a Nutrition Services Supervisor to lead the hospital's food service and dietary support. You will ensure menu and diet accuracy, supervise meal preparation and delivery, and coordinate patient discharge-related meals.

Responsibilities include monitoring food temperatures, maintaining safety standards, training staff, and supporting leadership in performance reviews while ensuring compliance with departmental policies.

Qualifications

• Two years experience in food service or one year hospital nutrition experience.
• High School Diploma preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensures staff follow healthcare food service standards and food temperatures are monitored.
• Leads nutrition service employees, ensuring menu and diet accuracy, portioning, presentation and delivery.
• Trains staff on policies, procedures and provides feedback; supports performance reviews.
• Oversees food preparation and service to meet dietary guidelines.
• Responds to dietary questions and manages staff training progress.

Skills

Food service experience

Hospital nutrition experience

Staff training

Leadership

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Essential Function

Ensures employees follow healthcare food service industry standards, regulations, guidelines and procedures

including monitoring and maintaining food temperatures during cooking, holding, and storage processes. Ensures

processes and standards are met to avoid cross contamination. Ensures employees adhere to hygiene, food

labeling, and food storage standards and maintains tools and equipment according to regulations and facility

guidelines.

Leads food and nutrition service employees including ensuring menu and diet accuracy, proper meal portioning,

presentation and delivery, patient discharge follow-up, etc. Provides direction and development to staff not

adhering to policies and procedures.

Oversees food preparation and service to ensure the guidelines of menu and dietary requirements are met.

Maintains foundational knowledge of recipe ingredients and food allergies in order to respond appropriately to

dietary questions and concerns. Assists team members in applying organizational procedures and protocols to

reduce the occurrence of errors related to dietary guidelines.

Trains new and existing employees to follow departmental policies and procedures. Assesses training progress

and provides constructive feedback for improved performance. Supports leadership in employee performance

reviews. Supports leadership in the training of nutrition services team members related to areas such as

therapeutic diets, retail responsibilities and other departmental areas.

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.

Job Requirements

Required

Two (2) years experience in food service or one (1) year hospital nutrition experience

Preferred

High School

Graduate

Where You'll Work

St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services to residents of Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, and Clear Lake. The facility includes 53 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU beds and three endoscopy rooms, and offers a range of primary and specialized services—wound care, general surgery, gastroenterology, occupational health, heart and vascular, women’s services, diagnostic imaging, outpatient rehab services, and sleep disorders.