Dietary Aide

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Job Title

Dietary Aide

Location

Port St Lucie

Facility

Tradition Hospital

Department

Patient Food Service-Operations

Job Code

001127

Shift

Day/Evening/Night/Weekend

Schedule

6:30am-8:30pm

Job Summary

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the Port St. Lucie area. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, this state-of-the-art acute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers a wide variety of services to meet community needs. Here, you will be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital.

Cleveland Clinic understands that keeping up with nutritional needs is essential to staying well. As a Dietary Aide, you help us support patient health by ensuring proper food handling and transportation. It will be your goal to ensure patients receive their meals in a timely manner and care is taken regarding dietary restrictions and food

safety. In this role, you can gain hands-on experience in a healthcare setting, all while making a difference in the lives of patients every day.

A caregiver in this position works 8-hour shifts, Monday-Friday, between 6:30AM – 8:30PM, including rotating weekends and holidays, as needed. The schedule is provided two weeks in advance.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Perform a variety of duties to ensure proper distribution of prepared foods to patients, cafeteria guests and catered events.

• Accurately set up and deliver patient trays and nourishments.

• Distribute correct portions of food and beverage items.

• Demonstrate working knowledge of specific therapeutic diets.

• Follow department standards and procedures.

• Utilize and rotate food products, appropriately store leftovers and label and date food items.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Ability to work with minimal supervision

• Ability to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• High School Diploma or GED

• Six months of experience in food service

Physical Requirements:

• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Ability to reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Close, distance, color, peripheral, depth vision and the ability to adjust focus also required.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

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