Nutrition Service Worker - Nutritional Services
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital · NY, US
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About the Role
Under the direction of the Supervisor, Food and Nutrition, the Nutrition Service Worker performs a variety of food service functions including patient tray assembly and distribution, dish room activities, food production, cafeteria service, and catering support. This role also involves patient services such as meal delivery and menu assistance, as well as office functions like printing worklists and data entry.
Responsibilities
- Performs patient tray assembly and distribution.
- Performs dish room activities.
- Adheres to general sanitation practices when handling food and equipment.
- Maintains a clean and sanitized work space/area.
- Delivers meals, nourishments, or floor stock to patients/residents.
- Assists patients/residents with menu selection.
- Assists patients/residents with tray set-up.
- Opens containers for patients/residents.
- Communicates patient-related issues to the nutrition department or nursing station.
- Prints worklists.
- Completes a Delivery Cart Count sheet.
- Completes Nourishment labels.
- Enters data related to floor stock and nourishment costs.
- Determines food production requirements based on production feedback.
- Responds to communications from nursing staff, patients, and Nutrition Staff.
- Answers departmental telephone calls and directs them accordingly.
- Performs cold food production duties for patients, cafeteria services, and covers the deli station.
- Serves customers in the hospital cafeteria.
- Assists in catering hospital functions.
- Covers catering shifts in the absence of the caterer.
- Operates the cash register during meal periods.
- Manages currency and files required reports for cash register operations.
Requirements
- High School Diploma, GED Equivalent, or a Junior or Senior High School student with a reference letter from a faculty member preferred.
- Prior experience in food service in a health care setting is preferred.
- Highly motivated, well organized and self-directed.
- Must work well as a team member.
- Must be able to push food carts with varying weights greater than 100lbs.
- Must be able to lift items that weigh up to 50 lbs.
- Good verbal communication and customer service skills required.
- Readily learns and applies new procedures and technology.
- Some prior knowledge of special diets preferred.
- Requires detailed attention and familiarity with proper patient identification procedures.
- Prior experience in patient setting is preferred.
- Telephone skills are helpful.
- Prior knowledge of various types of food preparation and familiarity with quantity food service equipment, quantify food service experience preferred.
- Basic knowledge of Safe Food Handling required.
- Some knowledge of the cash register operation is desirable, along with some previous experience handling currency (both Canadian and American).
- As applicable, the individual has training/competency in attending to the special needs and/or behaviors appropriate to the age of the patients for which care is being provided.
- This is a bargaining union position.
Skills
- Food service
- Patient tray assembly
- Patient tray distribution
- Dish room operations
- Sanitation practices
- Equipment operation and cleaning
- Customer service
- Menu selection assistance
- Data entry
- Food production
- Cafeteria service
- Catering assistance
- Cash register operation
- Currency management
- Verbal communication
- Teamwork
- Organization
- Self-direction
- Attention to detail
- Patient identification procedures
- Special diet knowledge (preferred)
- Food preparation knowledge (preferred)
- Quantity food service experience (preferred)
- Safe Food Handling
- Telephone skills (helpful)
Location
- 75 Beekman Street, Plattsburgh New York
Work Type
- Per Diem
- Regular
Education Level
- High School Diploma
- GED Equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- Min $21.25 Mid $26.03 Max $30.81
About the Company
- Building Name: CVPH - Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
- Department: CVPH - Nutrition