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Dietary Aide
Job Description
Job Title: Dietary Aide/Kitchen Staff: Fieldcrest Assisted Living
Reports To: Fieldcrest RN Case Manager
Shift: Full-Time, Part-Time
Rate of Pay: $18.50—$20.00
Profile
Fieldcrest Assisted Living is seeking a reliable and compassionate Dietary Aide / Kitchen Staff team member who will be responsible for preparing, cooking, and serving meals, as well as maintaining a clean and safe kitchen environment. This role plays an important part in supporting the health, comfort, and overall well-being of our residents.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare and cook meals according to menus and resident dietary restrictions.
- Help serve healthy, safe, well tasting meals for all residents at our Fieldcrest Assisted Living Facility.
- Follow menus, recipes, and procedures for all meals served to residents for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; seven days a week.
- Help with inventory, ordering, storage organization, shopping, menu planning, and meal preparations.
- Maintain and promote clean, safe, healthy, welcoming working conditions and atmosphere in the kitchen, storage areas, and dining hall at Fieldcrest before and after meals.
- Ensure proper food handling, preparation, storage, and temperature controls.
- Follow food safety and infection control guidelines, including cross-contamination.
- Wash dishes and maintain kitchen cleanliness and sanitation standards.
- Help lower and/or maintain adequate food costs.
- Promote and welcome open communication with other dietary staff.
- Work cohesively with clinical staff at Fieldcrest to assure residents are always cared for at a high level of respect and kindness.
Compliance, Documentation & Reporting:
- Acquire a sound working understanding of regulatory/compliance policies and procedures.
- Follow all policies and procedures established by Prairie Home Hospice and assist in ensuring that Prairie Home Hospice is meeting or exceeding all state, federal, and industry standards for assisted living and hospice care as it relates to compliance and regulations.
- MDH standards and compliance
Other Responsibilities Include
- Communicating residents’ wants, needs, and preferences.
- Communicating equipment, facility, storage, and maintenance needs etc.
- Participating in efforts to create a healthy work environment within Prairie Home Hospice.
- Participate in and support Prairie Home Hospice programs, events, fundraisers, etc., and make every effort to contribute positively to the overall success of the organization.
- Providing input and feedback to management in efforts to provide quality care, compassionate service, and a positive, healthy work environment across the organization.
- Completing educational requirements necessary to maintain licensure and/or skills and knowledge necessary to successfully carry out job duties as assigned.
- Maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.
- Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner in the community.
- Arrives on time as scheduled for work shifts and/or patient visits.
- Timely documentation temperatures, accidents, injury, illness etc.
- Attend quarterly staff meetings and trainings as assigned.
Other
- Prairie Home Hospice & Community Care can best serve our clients and their families by working as a team. While each staff and volunteer may have a primary role, we also have a responsibility to support the team in any way in which we can help to make the team stronger and the services we provide the very highest quality possible. To that end, all employees are expected to contribute positively to a healthy, mutually supportive team environment, which at times requires a delicate balance and the prioritization between individually assigned roles and responsibilities and the broader needs of the organization and team.
- Supportive and family-orientated work environment
- Flexible scheduling
- Training provided
- Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on residents’ daily lives
Apply today to find out more about this exciting career opportunity at Prairie Home Hospice & Community Care!
Prairie Home Hospice and Community Care is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.