Job description
Job Description:
- Communicates with nursing departments, clinical dieticians, and personnel to provide excellent patient services.
- Introduces the Catering to You Program following the scripted methods to all new patients.
- Takes patient menu selections prior to meals and offers alternatives to menu as allowed on prescribed diet in accordance with food allergies and sensitivities, cultural, ethnic, and religious preferences.
- Assembles trays according to patient menu on tray ticket and retrieves trays from patients’ rooms.
- Complies with regulator agency standards, including federal, state, and JCAHO.
- Adheres to facility confidentiality and patient’s rights policy as outlined in the facilities HIPPA policies and procedures.
- Follows Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) guidelines when handling food and when cleaning work stations and breaking down patient tray line.
- Follows facility and department infection control policies and procedures.
- Performs other duties that may be assigned.