Patient Meal Service Specialist

Advocate Health Care; Chicago (IL); Vor Ort; USD 30.000 - 38.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Advocate Health Care in Chicago is seeking a Dietary Service Assistant to support meal service operations for patients and staff. You will prepare service lines, assemble patient nourishment, and deliver meals to nursing units under HACCP standards.

This role requires daily coordination with the Diet Office and care teams, adherence to safety procedures, and reliable teamwork in a busy hospital kitchen environment.

Qualifikationen

• Ability to prepare service line for meal service and service customers
• Ability to deliver routine food order to include food carts to nursing units
• Ability to assemble patient nourishment
• Ability to requisition supplies
• Ability to clean and maintain areas as assigned
• Ability to easily follow instructions
• Ability to communicate/respond to a phone.

Aufgaben

• Informs customers of services available, assists customers with service requests, reports service request to the Support Center.
• Informs customers of services available, assists customers with service requests, reports service request to the Support Center.
• Communicates with the Coordinator and Diet Office on a daily basis or more often as required.
• Reports specific customer’s needs, expectations and status with the Coordinator/Diet Office.
• Responds to all types of communications promptly (oral & written).
• Prepare service lines for meal service and services customers
• Prepares patient tray line for meal service and assembles trays as assigned, according to accuracy and time standards
• Delivers routine food orders to include food carts to the nursing units
• Assembles patient nourishments as ordered
• Requisitions and stores necessary supplies
• Cleans and maintains areas as assigned; areas to include conference rooms
• Collects and disposes of trash from areas, non-patient areas to include food waste and recyclables.
• This may require operating the compactor
• Completes daily floor care as appropriate for hard surfaces
• Works in the dishroom k) Collects menus as assigned and delivers menus to the office for processing.
• Participates in educational programs, inservices and department meetings as an active team member.
• Follows sanitation and HACCP standards and maintains organization & cleanliness of work areas
• Attends inservice programs on equipment use and operation
• Attends inservice programs on proper procedures for cleaning patient and non-patient areas
• Attends all mandatory inservice programs
• Participation in self development by attending mandatory inservice and education programs appropriate to the goals and needs of the department

Kenntnisse

Prepare service line

Deliver meals to units

Assemble patient nourishment

Requisition supplies

Clean and maintain areas

Follow instructions

Phone communications

Ausbildung

On-the-job training (2-3 weeks)

Jobbeschreibung

Advocate Health Care in Chicago is seeking a Dietary Service Assistant to support meal service operations for patients and staff. You will prepare service lines, assemble patient nourishment, and deliver meals to nursing units under HACCP standards.

This role requires daily coordination with the Diet Office and care teams, adherence to safety procedures, and reliable teamwork in a busy hospital kitchen environment.