Dietary Worker

Overview

Perform a wide variety of tasks and operations to prepare and cook foods for patients, employees and others as directed, following standards, practices and procedures in compliance with regulatory agency requirements, regular scheduled hours, productivity and employee behavior. Maintains and promotes awareness of hospital mission statement and programs in order to assist in accomplishing its goals.

Responsibilities

- Establish and maintain positive relationships with patients, visitors, and other employees. Interacts professionally, courteously, and appropriately with patients, visitors and other employees. Behaves in a manner consistent with maintaining and furthering a positive public perception of BronxCare Health System and its employee.

- Contributes to and participates in the Performance/Quality Improvement activities of the assigned department. Contribution and participation includes data collection, analysis, implementation of and compliance with risk management and claims activities, support of and participation in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) teams, consistent adherence to the specific rules and regulations of the BronxCare Health System (a) Safety and Security Policies, (b) Risk Management: Incident and Occurrence Reporting, (c) Infection Control Policies and Procedures and (d) Patient and Customer Service.

- Has a professional attitude at all times, works well with others without incident and arrives on time in full uniform.

- Assures all patient meals are accurate according to their diet before leaving the kitchen. Delivers patient meals using “Knock” program and two patient identifiers.

- Strips carts and trays, sorts and rinses dishes and silverware, loads, operates an unloads dishwasher, stacks or stores washed items as required. Cleans dishwashing machine, maintains sanitation standards for scrapping and dish room work area. Work in a team environment without conflict.

- Delivers and picks up all patient meals within timeframe set by management. Ensures all finished patient meals are picked up after each meal period.

- Serves on patient tray line involving duties such as: starting, serve food, pour hot and cold beverages, place or portion desserts, check trays, cover trays, load trucks, brew coffee, maintain sanitation standards in work service or dining area, prepare diet kits, set tables.

- Collects, processes and disposes of trash and similar debris and transports to disposal area. Performs other general routine and non-routine cleaning duties following established schedules or as assigned, such as: mopping, sweeping, general housekeeping, equipment cleaning.

- Attends al Departmental and hospital in-service/orientation and other meetings as required. Follows hospital policy for verification of attendance at same. Maintains established department and hospital policies, procedures and objectives for quality assurance, safety, and environment and infection control.

- Follows hospital and departmental policies to break times (start/finish), call outs, absenteeism and tardiness.

- Complete all documentation for assigned positions.

- Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

- None, will train

- Hospital or food related experience Preferred

- High School Diploma