Job: Nutrition Representative - Job #: 70530

Location: US-CO-Loveland
Posted Date: 11/3/2009
Shift: Day
Category: Support Services - Positions
Department: Food & Nutrition Services
Facility: McKee Medical Center
Position Type: Full-Time-FA
Shift Hours: Will work varied shits with some weekends and holiday.
Hours Per Week: 32

Overview:
McKee Medical Center is an acute-care hospital located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. McKee prides itself on providing excellent patient care, the latest in technological advances and caring attention to patient needs. Since opening in 1976, McKee has been dedicated to supporting our patient's physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. Through the years, McKee has led the way in health care innovation. The hospital's original planners designed all patient rooms as private patient rooms where individuals can recover in a peaceful, healing environment.

With close views of the Rocky Mountains, and a short drive from Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins, Loveland is a growing town of 60,000 with an enviable location and an award-winning quality of life. Living in Loveland gives you convenient access to mountain sports (we're only 40 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park), nearby universities and a thriving artistic community. Loveland hosts an annual sculpture show and the town's Benson Sculpture Garden has earned the reputation of being one of the nation's best outdoor art displays.
Responsibilities:
The pay opportunity is $12.08 - $19.30 depending on experience.

This position is responsible for providing patients with menu and tray/patient meal service, for receiving and forwarding patient requests and communication to dietary staff when appropriate. Works to provide patient satisfaction with dietary and food services. This position is responsible for the diet office processes and may provide lead responsibility for diet office in absence of supervisor including making assignments for position coverage.

Essential Functions:
1. Visits patients to obtain or discuss menu selections based upon diet ordered. Using judgment, checks that patient selections are appropriate to the defined selections for the diet prescribed, and makes modified diet decisions whether in the diet office or on the patient unit as required. Enters or records all daily patient meal selections and preferences for one or more patient units. Provides patients with standard information for prescribed diet. Requests Dietary staff assistance when needed.

2. Provides diet office processing including editing patient menus, tallying daily menu item counts from patient menus and preparing production sheets.

3. May lead in patient tray assembly/patient meal service process, assure food presentation meets quality standards, and check patient trays for menu compliance. Position is responsible for the diet office processes.

4. May delivers and serves meals while making independent judgments about special requests, snacks and nourishments as assigned to patient rooms or nursing units.

Requires reading, writing and mathematical skills at a level normally evidenced by a high school diploma or equivalent.

Requires an understanding of nutrition services, common modified diets, and portion measures. Skills and knowledge in health care nutrition services typically gained through 3 years of related experience and/or education.

Ability to effectively lead assignments and reschedule staff assignments in the absence of supervisor as required. Requires the ability to work effectively with business computer software system and point of sale systems. Requires the ability to learn food handling regulations and pass certification tests as required. Must have demonstrated effective customer service skills.