Meridian Health Looking for at Old Bridge Full Time

Overview The Nutrition Assistant is responsible for obtaining and processing meal orders in a courteous and professional manner; ensuring diet prescription adherence, and maintaining an accurate dietary record for each patient.

Responsibilities

• Handles all patient / customer interactions in a courteous and professional manner, using standardized script where required.
• Receives patient meal requests by phone call to the diet office, call backs from the diet office
• or visitation at the patient bedside. Processes meal orders via computer in allotted time frame.
• Orders non-select meals for patients who cannot select a meal and for whom no order has been placed, as appropriate.
• Communicates with patient taking menu selections in accordance with diet, food allergies, and food preferences. Ability to verbalize diet-appropriate foods for all house diets; input menus one-on-one with patient &/or family member using Health touch with accuracy.
• Keeps accurate dietary records for patients in the computer as necessary.
• Records unit pantry refrigerator temperature on a daily basis. Monitors pantries for general cleanliness and refers all issues to Supervisor/Managers.
• Ensures all menu choices made by patients are therapeutically accurate, through suggestions of alternatives when necessary for patient satisfaction.
• Processes orders for guest trays in a courteous and timely manner
• Communicates special requests, important information to appropriate staff in a timely and courteous manner
• Prints reports timely.
• Processes requests for 10 am, 3 pm, and HS nourishments.
• Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs (i.e., age, culture, language, hearing and/or visually impaired, etc.).
• This process includes communicating with the patient, parent, and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age, educational, literacy, etc.).
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Knowledge of basic principles of nutrition and modified diets.
• Proficient in computer skills.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in foods and nutrition.
• Bilingual, especially Spanish or Korean language.
• Minimum of 1 or more years of similar hospital or acute care experience.