Patient Dining Aide

St. Vincent's Medical Center; Bridgeport (CT); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT, is seeking a patient food service associate responsible for menu selections, tray assembly, delivery, and stocking on assigned units, ensuring dietary restrictions are followed and patient needs are met.

The role requires reading and speaking English, basic math, and computer system familiarity, including ADT. You’ll collaborate with nursing and dietitians, perform post-meal rounds, and support nutrition services staff.

Qualifications

• Must be able to read and speak English
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure; compute ratio and percent
• Operate hospital ADT and other computer-based systems that manage patient-care records
• Ability to handle problems with several concrete variables in standardized situations
• High School Diploma or GED preferred
• 2 years of customer service preferred

Responsibilities

• Responsible for patient food service on assigned units including menu selections, tray assembly, tray delivery and pick up.
• Stocking patients units and fulfilling special requests between meals.
• Takes patients menu selections prior to meal service while complying with dietary restrictions.
• Offers alternatives to menu within prescribed diets and patient preferences.
• Interacts with Nursing to ensure diet prescriptions are accurate and needs are met.
• Completes rounds after trays are passed and retrieves trays when meals are finished.
• May assist dietitian with monitoring patients on NPO or calorie counts.
• Communicates any patient-related problems to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
• Participates in departmental meetings and staff development programs.

Skills

English literacy

Basic math

computer skills

communication with nursing

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

ADT system

Computer-based systems

Job description

Location Detail:St Vincents Medical Center (10427)

Shift Detail:WORKS 12 HOUR SHIFTS. FOLLOWING HOURS 6:30AM. -6:30PM WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS

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St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport has more than 3,200 employees. It includes a 473-bed community teaching hospital, a 76-bed inpatient psychiatric facility in Westport, a large multispecialty provider group, and special needs services for adults and children. St. Vincent’s is the first hospital in Fairfield County to be integrated into the Hartford HealthCare network, and is the system’s second-largest hospital.

Job Summary

Responsible for patient food service on assigned units including menu selections, tray assembly, tray delivery and pick up, stocking patients units where needed, and fulfills special requests in-between meal food delivery.

• Responsible for maintaining accurate and current information for each patient on their assigned unit. Conducts patient food service including menu selections, tray assembly, tray delivery and pick up, stocking units where needed, and fulfills special requests in-between meal food delivery.
• Takes patients menu selections prior to meal service while complying with dietary restrictions on special, modified diets to ensure optimal food preferences are met within guidelines of diet order limitations.
• Offers alternatives to menu as allowed on prescribed diet in accordance with food allergies and sensitivities, cultural, ethnic and religious preferences, when patient inquires or needs additional selections.
• Interacts with Nursing to ensure patients’ diet prescriptions are accurate, and patients’ food needs are met.
• After trays are passed, completes rounding to check on patients and address any additional needs. Retrieves trays from patients once meal is done.
• May assist dietitian with monitoring of patients who are NPO, on liquid diets or have a calorie count ordered.
• Communicates any patient related problems/concerns to appropriate personnel, in a timely manner following departmental procedures.
• Participates and attends departmental meetings and staff development programs, as appropriate.
• Perform other related duties as required

Qualifications

• Must be able to read and speak English
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. May need to exhibit ability to compute ratio, and percent.
• Possesses necessary skills to effectively operate hospital’s admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) system and other computer-based systems, which manage patient-care records.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• High School Diploma or GED preferred
• 2 years of customer service preferred

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