Nutrition Services Specialist

SEH Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, Inc.; Fort Thomas (KY); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Paid time off

Employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness programs

Internal mobility

Job summary

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is seeking a Nutrition Services Specialist to join the Ft. Thomas Nutrition Services Team. The role involves room service ambassador duties, expeditor tasks, nutrition assistance, call center work, and cafeteria service to support patient meals.

Part-time schedule with evenings and alternating weekends. The position emphasizes compassionate patient care, teamwork, and adherence to diet guidelines and safety standards.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Ability to read with comprehension and follow written and verbal instructions.
• 3 months experience including customer service responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Delivers and serves meals to patients directly to patients in a professional, courteous and efficient manner; follows service standards.
• Assists patients and families with meal ordering and diet restrictions and explains the meal system.
• Acts as a liaison between the Nutrition department and nursing units to coordinate patient care.
• Records data for performance improvement monitors and ensures adherence to program goals.
• Performs sanitation and safety tasks and restocks supplies to ensure smooth service.

Skills

Customer service

Food service

Call center

Nutrition assistance

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Engage with us for your next career opportunity. Right Here. Job Type: Regular Scheduled Hours: 12

Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

Benefits That Support You

We invest in you — personally and professionally. Enjoy:

• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
• Retirement savings with employer match
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Nutrition Services Specialist to join our Ft. Thomas Nutrition Services Team.

Shift/Hours: Part Time 12 Hours, Second Shift Schedule: Thursday 4:00PM - 8:00PM, Every Other Saturday/Sunday 11:30AM - 8:00PM

Responsible for performing various roles in Nutrition Services consisting of customer service, nutrition assistance, call center, cook, server, etc. Job duties may change daily depending on staffing shortages due to unforeseen circumstances. In addition, this position will assist with project completion as needed.

Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Job Description

Room Service Ambassador

• Delivers and serves meals and between meal nourishments directly to patients in a professional, courteous and efficient manner; complies with established scripting and service standards.
• Resolves tray / order problems promptly with a positive outcome.
• Instructs patients and families on meal ordering system, providing correct menu (diet complaint); orients patient to diet restrictions.
• Assesses patients’ ability to utilize the meal order system; follows-up with appropriate nursing / nutrition staff if unable to participate.
• Assists patients and / or family with placing food orders, facilitating interpreter needs and special assistance as identified.
• Acts as a liaison between the Nutrition department, patient, and nursing unit; communicates with members of other departments effectively and concisely regarding patient support, issues, requests, and other special situations; reports nutrient intake from meals; anticipates and responds to patient / team member needs.
• Serves as a quality control point for every aspect of the room service program; records and documents necessary data for Performance improvement monitors; ensures all actions reflect the overall program service goals.
• Orders and replenishes bulk food supplies on nursing unit and assists with timely retrieval of completed meals from patient rooms.

Expeditor

• Participates in patient tray assembly, set up of line, and restocking.
• Checks all meals for accuracy, adheres to quality assurance goals.
• Checks all food items for acceptable quality, portion, and diet compliance.
• Monitors tray line support positions to ensure task completion and preparation for each meal period.
• Ensures timely dispatch of meal carts and flow of delivery process.
• Communicates with ambassadors for patient tray needs, urgent orders, or replacement, ASAP items.
• Assures compliance with food safety practices including proper food temperatures, correct food handling, and food dating.

Nutrition Assistant

• Prepares, assembles and plates food items for patient tray needs, assuring compliance with recipes, diet specifications, and quality.
• Participates in patient tray assembly assuring compliance with diet specifications, meal ticket order, correct placement and presentation of tray.
• Loads meal carts ensuring correct placement, silverware, timer and time standards for dispatch.
• Deliver and retrieve patient meal tray carts and stock to patient care units.
• Process all utensils and dishware (through automated dishmachine) for patients, cafeteria, and catered food service in accordance with sanitary guidelines.
• Re-stock clean dishware in cafeteria, cook’s, and trayline areas to meet service needs.
• Performs janitorial tasks, such as cleaning equipment and work surfaces, mopping, sweeping, and trash disposal.
• Follows sanitation and safety guidelines to ensure wholesome foods and prevention of food borne illness.
• Checks and documents equipment temperatures and chemical concentrations for quality control program.

Call Center Clerk

• Performs role of Call Center Clerk as assigned; utilize software systems to place electronic meal orders, change diets, and update patient information.
• Maintains computerized diet office menu system (CBord) to reflect orders for diet, supplements, admissions, transfers and discharges received via the patient information system.
• Processes reports and updates data.
• Assists patients and/or family with meal orders via the telephone call center; creates a service culture; transposes meal orders into the CBord system for menu processing and coordination with Cooks and trayline execution.
• Verifies meal orders meet diet order and dietary parameters; processes diet requisitions.
• Coordinates Call Center work flow during peak volumes to assure timely response to callers on hold (in queue) and rapid time demands.
• Mediates patient concerns regarding meal service; anticipates patient needs and services them appropriately.
• Performs role of Ambassador as assigned; orients patients to menu, delivers meal trays, communicates nutritional concerns with nursing/ dietitian.
• Communicates with members of other departments efficiently and consistently.

Cafeteria Server

• Serves food to cafeteria customers in compliance with portion control guidelines, safe and sanitary food handling procedures, and positive customer relations.
• Prepares food including short orders for cafeteria service to meet menu requirements.
• Maintains adequate food supplies to meet customer requests.
• Assists with catering functions including inventory and stocking supplies outside the department as assigned to meet catering schedule.
• Performs assigned janitorial tasks to comply with cleaning schedule.

Cashier

• Records sales transactions on computerized register to meet established guidelines for multiple discounts, pricing and coupons.
• Accurately receives cash and gives change to meet control guidelines.
• Stocks supplies in cafeteria to comply with established levels and meet customer demands.
• Handles customer complaints in a timely positive manner to ensure positive customer relations.

Cook

• Prepares food items for customer self-service, ensuring adequate supply and quality.
• Prepares, cooks, and serves food per customer order in timely and efficient manner, supporting volumes needed by serving assistant.
• Guides Server on plating and presentation of menu items.
• Stocks and rotates work station with needed supplies and materials.
• Assembles, measures, and prepares ingredients for station menu service.
• Follows standardized recipes and assists with development and testing of recipes to promote sales and customer acceptance.
• Ensures food safety and cleanliness of workstation to meet HCAAP and Infection Control guidelines.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education, Credentials, Licenses

High School Diploma or GED required

Specialized Knowledge

Ability to read with comprehension and follow written and verbal instructions

Kind and Length of Experience

3 months experience including customer service responsibilities.

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt Right Career.

Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community. St. Elizabeth Healthcare is one of the oldest, largest and most respected medical providers in the Northern Kentucky, Southeast Indiana and Greater Cincinnati region. Together with St. Elizabeth Physicians, the affiliated multi-specialty physician and advanced practice provider organization, we are transforming healthcare through innovative treatments, cutting-edge technology and a heart for our community. We’re right here, sharing one mission: to improve the health of the people we serve.