Patient Tray & Diet Aide: Food Service

Aramark; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Aramark at Connecticut Children’s in Hartford, CT seeks a Tray Passer/Dietary Aide to assist with meal preparation, tray delivery, and patient nourishment. You will work with the clinical nutrition team to ensure dietary needs are met and maintain high standards of sanitation and safety in food preparation.

Responsibilities include communicating patient needs, portioning and labeling trays, stocking stations, and serving meals.

Qualifications

• Must be able to follow written and verbal directions.
• Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs and frequently lift, push, pull, or carry up to 30 lbs.
• Must be able to walk and stand for extended time periods, up to 6 hours.
• Requires repetitive motion.
• Required working with chemicals, heated equipment and steam.

Responsibilities

• Communicate patient care areas to identify needs and react accordingly.
• Evaluate patient diet orders to ensure all dietary requirements are satisfied appropriately.
• Communicates with and collaborates effectively with clinical nutrition team representatives when preparing for, or providing meals, formula and snacks for patient consumption.
• Appropriately identify regular menus, in CBORD to properly distribute trays to patients.
• Orient patients and patients’ families to Food and Nutrition Programs to ensure we meet the patients’ needs.
• Delivers patient trays to the clinical area.
• Escalates customer concerns to a supervisor or manager when appropriate, otherwise handles customer concerns appropriately, in a self-directed fashion.
• Patient Tray Production
• Assist with the preparation of patient meal trays
• Prepares, portions, assembles and labels patient and non-patient food items.
• Stocks and maintains patient feeding starter station and storage areas
• Keeps the Cold Cart Storage reach-ins clean and organized
• Assists with Pantry standard; inventorying, ordering assembly, delivery and stocking. Must also label, date and rotate pantry stock on the patient care floors
• Communicates with Kitchen and diet Tech staff via Voalte or open communication
• Customer Service
• Works collaboratively with clinical support team members in order to provide the highest quality service to patients, families and clinical team members.
• Performs daily opening and closing procedures. Checks out all team members, ensuring that all tasks have been completed for by each team member working a schedule.

Skills

Follow written and verbal directions

Mobility & stamina

Lifting up to 30 lbs

Job description

Aramark at Connecticut Children’s in Hartford, CT seeks a Tray Passer/Dietary Aide to assist with meal preparation, tray delivery, and patient nourishment. You will work with the clinical nutrition team to ensure dietary needs are met and maintain high standards of sanitation and safety in food preparation.

Responsibilities include communicating patient needs, portioning and labeling trays, stocking stations, and serving meals.