- Requisition # 2024-144019
- ShiftDay
- StatusPer Diem
Overview
“Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.”
Come join our Amazing team here at Hackensack Meridian Health! We offer Scheduling Flexibility, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Discounts and much more!!!
Serves as liaison between the patient, nursing staff and Food Services Department regarding meal selection, obtaining and recording food preferences. Collects menus and maintains on-going records of diet orders. Assures high quality meal service to the patient by checking each tray, at meal time, for accuracy and delivering meals to patients in a timely basis.
Responsibilities
- Collects census and diet changes prior to each meal service. Maintains on-going records of diet orders for each patient.
- Responsible for collecting all selective menus from patients on assigned floors.
- Assists patients with menu selection or writes patients' menus as necessary using food preferences as a guideline.
- Visits patients daily to ascertain likes and dislikes and meal satisfaction. Communicates any special problem to the Dietitian.
- Checks menus for diet changes prior to each meal service to ensure accuracy for patients on assigned floors.
- Tallies menu orders for hot and cold production, and transfers total figures to appropriate production forms.
- Completes daily meal equivalency sheets and late tray logs
- Reviews/modifies all meals for diet accuracy for patients on assigned floors.
- Assembles daily patient food trays for assigned patient/floors by following patient choice selection as per allowable
- Delivers assembled patient food trays on assigned floors and collects and returns tray at the end of patient meal.
- Ensures delivery of excellent customer service resulting in positive and improving patient satisfaction scores for department and Medical Center.
- Answers and records telephone messages for diet orders, diet changes, room transfers, etc. and carries out changes as received according to policies.
- Prepares 'Special Nourishment Control Sheet' for all special nourishment labels.
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- High school graduate or equivalent.
- Minimum one year experience in hospital Food Service Department.
HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH (HMH) IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available to an employer the results of a genetic test, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, national origin, nationality, ancestry, disability, marital status, liability for military service, or status as a protected veteran.
Our Network
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) is a Mandatory Influenza Vaccination Facility
As a courtesy to assist you in your job search, we would like to send your resume to other areas of our Hackensack Meridian Health network who may have current openings that fit your skills and experience.
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