Patient Diet Services Coordinator

Aramark Correctional Services; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Aramark is hiring Patient Services Workers to manage receipt, interpretation, and follow-through of patient diet orders in hospital and long-term care settings. You will liaise between patients, the Food and Nutrition Services Department, and Nursing Services to ensure accurate dietary support.

Responsibilities include delivering and collecting patient trays, communicating dietary needs, upholding sanitation standards, monitoring temperature logs, and assisting clinical staff to meet patients'

Qualifications

• Must be able to speak, read, and write English.
• Bilingual abilities preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Delivers and collects patient trays during meal service.
• May obtain food preferences/dislikes from patients and/or family members.
• Communicate all patient food needs to the appropriate area of the Food and Nutrition Services Department.
• Ensures that nutrition diet care orders are provided to the patient by offering appropriate menu selections.
• Maintains and adheres to all sanitation standards by following assigned cleaning schedules.
• Inventories and re-stocks pantries, refrigerator, and freezers on assigned unit(s).
• Maintains temperature logs for unit refrigerators and freezers.
• Understands therapeutic diets using established protocols and seeks assistance from Supervisor or Dietitian if an error is observed.
• Assists the clinical staff in ensuring all patients' basic nutrition care needs are met.

Skills

English proficiency

Job description

Aramark is hiring Patient Services Workers to manage receipt, interpretation, and follow-through of patient diet orders in hospital and long-term care settings. You will liaise between patients, the Food and Nutrition Services Department, and Nursing Services to ensure accurate dietary support.

Responsibilities include delivering and collecting patient trays, communicating dietary needs, upholding sanitation standards, monitoring temperature logs, and assisting clinical staff to meet patients'