Patient Dining Assistant - Day Shift - Full-Time - JR-1062237-5904 - Masco Corporation

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a truly inclusive environment where diversity and equity are championed
through words and actions. You'll contribute to an innovative culture
that is second to none, one that embraces curiosity, discovery and
compassion. You'll play a role in something that's never been done
before as we integrate science and clinical care to help patients
achieve better, faster outcomes - as we Advance Human Ability, together.
Job Description Summary
The Patient Dining Assistant will provide meal assistance, including
meal selection, service and retrieval, to patients on a daily basis
based on physician's diet orders. Assistant will accurately serve food
and beverages to patients in accordance with the patient's diet
prescription and verbally communicate patient concerns with the clinical
dietitian i.e. education needs, inadequate meal consumption.
The Patient Dining Assistant will consistently demonstrate support of
the SRAlab statement of Vision, Mission and Core Values by striving for
excellence, contributing to the team efforts and showing respect and
compassion for patients and their families, fellow employees, and all
others with whom there is contact at or in the interest of the
institute.
The Patient Dining Assistant will demonstrate SRAlab Core Attributes:
Communication, Accountability, Flexibility/Adaptability,
Judgment/Problem Solving, Customer Service and SRAlab Values (Hope,
Compassion, Discovery, Collaboration, & Commitment to Excellence) while
fulfilling job duties.
Job Description
The Patient Dining Assistant will:
- Assist patients with making appropriate daily menu selections.
- Prepare, assemble and deliver patient meal trays and snacks in
accordance to physician diet orders.
- Calculate modified diets/fluid restrictions, calories, etc. for
meals only.
- Stock the pantries on the nursing units with patient food.
- Perform assorted kitchen duties including sanitation, set-up and
completion of temperature logs.
- Utilize computer to generate patient diet orders and process snacks
and tube feedings.
- Perform all other duties that may be assigned in the best interest
of SRAlab.
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Reporting Relationships
- Reports directly to Patient Services Manager
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required
- Communication and Influence: Verbal and written communication skills
to convey information that may be somewhat complex, and/or to others
who may have limited knowledge of the subject in question.
- Technical Knowledge: Full use and application of basic diet
information. Ability to successfully complete training and achieve
passing score on all competency tests.
- Interpersonal Relations: Ability to develop and maintain
professional, trusting, positive working relationships with
patients, supervisors, nursing and ancillary staff, and managers.
- Diversity Awareness: Ability and willingness to be aware of,
understand, respect, and value the diverse cultural, ethnic, gender,
age, educational, professional, etc. backgrounds and styles of
others and to adapt one's own behavior based on that understanding.
- Customer Focus: Ability and willingness to provide excellent service
to patients and clients (the customers). This includes seeking to
meet customer needs, expectations, and demands quickly and
effectively; remaining calm and professional when dealing with
difficult customers; receiving complaints from customers and taking
action to remedy the complaint; and treating the customer as
valuable.
- Drive and Dependability: Ability and willingness to demonstrate
optimism, and passion when working These include demonstrating
commitment, persistence, and heightened personal effort in the face
of obstacles and adversity; pursuing excellence for self and
organization; having a sense of urgency; and possessing ambition.
- Stress Tolerance and Flexibility: Ability to work productively and
effectively in a fast-paced, stressful, demanding, and/or ambiguous
work environment.
- Communication: Clear and Professional communication is required.
- Physical Demands: The job requires physical activity that includes
near constant standing, bending, walking and balancing; occasional
kneeling, climbing, stooping/crouching. The individual must have the
ability to frequently lift and/or carry items weighing up to 25
pounds and occasionally lift/carry items weighing up to 50 pounds.
Work also requires frequently pushing carts and racks requiring push
forces ranging from 10 lbs to 50 lbs.
Working Conditions
- Normal office or patient environment with occasional exposure to
high noise levels and hazards due to slippery floors and hot
equipment when going through food production areas.
- Kitchen environment with exposure to regular physical discomforts
from heat and humidity and possible burns from grill.
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