Patient Dining Associate

BJC HealthCare; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision,

Life insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Missouri Baptist Medical Center is seeking a Patient Dining Associate to provide meals and nourishment to inpatients. You will deliver meals, document intake, and support a patient-focused dining service on assigned units.

Responsibilities include tray assembly, diet order updates with nursing, and ensuring a clean, stocked galley for daily operations. No prior experience is required, and a welcoming team environment is offered.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• No experience required.

Responsibilities

• Delivers patient meals to assigned areas, documents meals and calorie intake, and rounds on patients as directed.
• Assembles meal trays and menus per guidelines.
• Communicates patient diets and special requests with the care team.
• Maintains an organized galley and ensures stock is available.

Skills

Direct patient interaction

Patient meals service

Calorie intake documentation

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Additional Information About the Role

Daily Pay Available!

Looking for a fulfilling job that lets you help patients in need? Look no further than Missouri Baptist Medical Center! We're currently seeking Patient Dining Associates to join our team. As a Patient Dining Associate, you'll provide a reassuring presence while taking patient orders/preparing trays and delivering patient meals. Join us in our mission to provide quality care and make a difference in our patients' lives.

• Full Time Role - 36 Hours a Week
• 6:15 a.m. - 6:45 p.m.
• Works 3/12 shifts a week
• Rotating Holidays and Works Every Other Weekend
• Requires Direct Patient Interaction

Overview

Missouri Baptist Medical Center, an acute care hospital in St. Louis County, offers a full continuum of medical and surgical services, including heart care, cancer, women and infants, breast health, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, stroke, therapy, wound and pain management services. The hospital has a 24-hour adult emergency department and cares for pediatric patients at a separate emergency department in collaboration with St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Missouri Baptist is the first and only hospital in St. Louis County to be named a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The prestigious designation is the highest credential a health care organization can receive for nursing excellence and quality patient care. This recognition has been accomplished by less than nine percent of hospitals nationwide. Additionally, U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital #2 in the St. Louis metro area.

The Food and Nutrition Services department at Missouri Baptist Medical Center's mission is to providenutritionally balancedmeals and medical nutrition therapyfor patients, staff and visitors of Missouri Baptist Medical Center byworking collaboratively withthe facility's nursing, ancillaryand medical staff professionals. Our licensed clinical dieticians provide medical nutrition therapyto both inpatients and outpatients as it relates to their personal medicalneeds.The department's patient services,production and retail teams work to deliver a variety offood offerings on a daily basisthat are nutritionally balanced, healthy, flavorful and fresh for the hospital's patients, employees and visitors.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Performs patient meal service for the Department of Food and Nutrition. Responsible for patient meal service on assigned units. This includes menu selections, tray assembly, catering rounds, tray delivery and retrieval, recording of intake/calorie counts, special requests, galley/floor stock maintenance, and nourishment delivery. Communicates directly with nursing to obtain updated diet orders. Responds to patient, family and nursing needs.

Responsibilities

• Delivers patient meals to assigned areas, documents meals and calorie intake and rounds on patients in accordance to department expectations.
• Assembles meal trays and menus in accordance to guidelines.
• Communicates patient diets, delivery of meals and special requests with patient care team.
• Maintains an organized and stocked galley.

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• No Experience

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Preferred Requirements

Education

• High School Diploma or GED

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC We're committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary.

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer