Culinary Diet Technician

Intermountain Health

Posted 3 months ago

Full Time

San Jose, California

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

Provides nutrition services by modifying patient meal selections according to provider orders and ensuring tray accuracy. Performs food preparation and delivers meals while communicating with clinical and culinary caregivers.

Qualifications

You have experience with nutrition, diet management, and computer literacy, along with strong interpersonal communication and active listening skills. You are able to coordinate tasks, interact positively with patients, and possess a keen attention to detail.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Nutrition

Diet Management

Computer Literacy

Interpersonal Communication

Active Listening

Coordinating tasks with others

Patient Interactions

Attention to detail

Food Handler Permit

ServSafe Certification

Job Description

Job Description:

Provides nutrition services to patients utilizing standardized guidelines. This position interacts with clinical caregivers, patients, and patient’s family members to explain the meal process and modify meal selections according to provider orders.

Posting Specifics

Pay Rate: Based on Experience

Shift Details: 40 hours per week / full time benefits

Tuesday through Saturday - 6am - 2:30pm

Essential Functions

  • Takes patient meal selections and modifies them using system standards to meet provider orders.
  • Checks trays for accuracy during meal assembly.
  • Communicates clearly to both clinical and culinary caregivers.
  • Collects and inputs nutrition screening information
  • May complete calorie count and nutrition analysis as dictated by facility
  • Utilizes a computer to run reports and take orders.
  • Delivers and presents trays to patients using the standard process.
  • Performs food preparation functions according to system standards (following standard recipe, assembling ingredients) for example, prepares salads, sandwiches, vegetables, and fruit.
  • Follows standardized practices relating to Nutrition Services (e.g. dining experience, meal delivery and maintaining required stock levels)
  • Performs accurate credit transactions according to system standards and independently resolves basic customer service issues.

Skills

  • Nutrition
  • Diet Management
  • Computer Literacy
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Active Listening
  • Coordinating tasks with others
  • Patient Interactions
  • Attention to detail

Qualifications

  • Food Handler Permit or ServSafe Certification is required by first day of work (required ONLY in the states of Utah and Idaho). Remote and off-site caregivers are exempt.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with modified diets (preferred)
  • Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred)

Physical Requirements

  • Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
  • Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
  • Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
  • Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment. Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
  • Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
  • Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.

Location:

Good Samaritan Hospital

Work City:

Lafayette

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$19.29 - $23.68

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

At Intermountain Health, we use the artificial intelligence ("AI") platform, HiredScore to improve your job application experience. HiredScore helps match your skills and experiences to the best jobs for you. While HiredScore assists in reviewing applications, all final decisions are made by Intermountain personnel to ensure fairness. We protect your privacy and follow strict data protection rules. Your information is safe and used only for recruitment. Thank you for considering a career with us and experiencing our AI-enhanced recruitment process.

All positions subject to close without notice.

Intermountain Health

Headquartered in Utah with locations in six primary states and additional operations across the western U.S., Intermountain Health is a nonprofit system of 34 hospitals, 400+ clinics, a medical group of more than 4,800 employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plan division called Select Health with more than one million members, and other health services.  With more than 68,000 caregivers on a mission to help people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is committed to improving community health, and is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare. We strive to be a model health system by taking full clinical and financial accountability for the health of more people, partnering to proactively keep people well, and coordinating and providing the best possible care. At Intermountain, every caregiver helps us fulfill our mission of helping people live the healthiest lives possible. Interested in joining our team? Check out our career website and apply today at https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/.
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