Food and Nutritional Services Worker

Your experience matters

At Community Rehabilitation Hospital North, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. In your role, you'll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members. We believe that our collective efforts will shape a healthier future for the communities we serve.

What we offer

Fundamental to providing great care is supporting and rewarding our team. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Health (Medical, Dental, Vision) and 401K Benefits for full-time employees
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• Employee Assistance Program - mental, physical, and financial wellness assistance
• Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance for qualified applicants
• And much more...

About Us

People are our passion and purpose. Community Rehabilitation Hospital North is a 60 bed hospital located in Indianapolis, IN and is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier® with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone-your experience matters

How you'll contribute

The Food & Nutritional Services Aide performs a variety of patient food service and dish duties. The Nutrition Services Aide is responsible for providing excellent customer service while taking patient menu requests and communicating dietary information for use by kitchen personnel in the preparation of meals for patients. Responsible for accurately identifying the patient to ensure they receive the proper diet and nutritional supplements. Follows diet manual guidelines, organizational and departmental policies and procedures. Effectively uses downtime to accomplish departmental tasks as assigned or recognized.

Qualifications and requirements

™¦ High School Diploma or GED preferred.

™¦ Prior food service or customer service experience preferred.

™¦ Ability to communicate verbally and in writing and great interpersonal skills.

™¦ Strong attention to detail and accuracy, excellent organizational skills with ability to prioritize, coordinate and simultaneously maintain multiple projects with high level of quality and productivity.

™¦ Customer service oriented with the ability to work well under pressure

Essential Functions:

™¦ Accurately prepares food trays for general and therapeutic diets and prepares special diet foods as necessary. Verifies trays for accuracy.

™¦ Prepares and delivers items, such as trays or snacks, as requested by patient care units or patients.

™¦ Deliver/collect daily menus and assist patients with ordering

™¦ Record meal intakes of patients

™¦ Maintains tray line in a clean, neat and organized manner and puts clean dishes and utensils away.

™¦ Collect soiled trays and utensils from dining room tables and transport them to dish washing area.

™¦ Wash dishes, clean equipment, wipe off dining room and worktables, clean utensils, pots and pans; mop floors in dietary as schedule and as necessary.

™¦ Clean and maintain kitchen, storage areas and food preparation equipment. Wash, sanitize, and store trays, dishes and utensils

™¦ Disposes of trash and garbage in appropriate manner and as needed.

™¦ Identify and participate in process improvement initiatives that improve the customer experience, enhance work flow, and/or improve the work environment

™¦ Use meal program to enter new patients and adjust diet orders as needed

™¦ Set up serving line with cold foods, condiments, serving containers, dishes, silverware, etc. according to the menus and as instructed

™¦ Stock and store food items Maintain a level of food and supplies adequate for the next meal and assist in inventorying and storing incoming foods and supplies

™¦ Follow HAACP guidelines. (Temps, dating, etc€¦)

™¦ Report hazardous conditions, equipment, accidents, and incidents, as necessary.

™¦ Other duties as assigned.

EEOC Statement:

Community Rehabilitation Hospital North is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of color, race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, gender identity, sexual orientation, veterans' status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.