Job Description - Diet Technician, Full-time (3307302)
Job Description
Diet Technician, Full-time-(3307302)
Description
Summary
Assist the Registered Dietician in assessing individual nutritional needs, implementing nutritional prescription and provided feedback on acceptance and tolerance of nutrition therapy.
Key Responsibilities
- Patients are interviewed to identify food preferences, allergies and nutritional status per established guidelines.
- Meal rounds are performed to monitor food quality and patient intake.
- Assigned patients are visited daily to ascertain tolerance of nutritional therapy per established guidelines.
- Patient menu assistance is provided to ensure patient selection complies with prescribed diet.
- Nutrient intakes are collected, calculated, and recorded in the medical record in accordance with established standards.
- Diet is calculated and patient menu updated as necessary.
- Patient selective menus are distributed and retrieved to meet established timeframes.
- Clerical duties including heading menus, preparing production sheets, and updating patient menus are completed to meet established standards.
- Patient education is reinforced to support established regimen.
- Quality assurance monitoring is completed per stated expectations.
- Additional department, organization, or network activities are completed per established objectives.
- PCC Organizational Values of Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence are upheld.
Qualifications
Qualifications and Experience
Education / Degree
Required
Preferred
Associate’s Degree in Food and Nutrition or equivalent experience preferred.
Experience
Required
Preferred
Licensure
Required
Preferred
Skills
Required
- Effective verbal, electronic and written communications skills using the English language
- Computer proficiency required.Microsoft office applications preferred with ability to learn new software.
- Maintain variable work schedule to provide patient care as needed. (evenings, holidays, weekends and travel).
Preferred
- Highly developed communications and interpersonal skills, working with diverse population.
- Work independently, be self-directed and contribute as a member of a team.
- Anticipates challenges and develops and implements strategies for addressing them.
- High level of service delivery. Demonstrate initiative with ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines and adapt to changing situations.
- Attention to detail.
15 days ago