Senior Dietary Worker

Job Summary Sr. Dietary Worker performs a variety of duties relating to delivery and serving patients' food trays, assisting patients in menu selection, and retrieving food carts. Acts as a critical liaison between patient and Food Service Department. Essential Functions Deliver, serve, and retrieve patient food trays ensuring each patient's dietary needs are met. Assist patients in menu selection to identify food preferences; assemble and deliver early/late trays while ensuring dietary needs are met. Deliver bulk stock, supplements, and tube feeding to units/patient rooms and return unused cans to the main kitchen, ensuring units are sufficiently stocked. Collect all soiled trays and utensils from units (including isolation rooms) on a timely basis and transport them to the dishroom, keeping patient rooms free of soiled trays and utensils. Ensure the patient receives an accurate and complete food tray. Handle tray errors and late trays, maintaining 100% tray accuracy at all times. Transport food trucks to patient floors on a pre‑established schedule, ensuring all patients are fed on a preset schedule. Retrieve food trucks from patient floors on schedule, ensuring soiled food trucks are clean and available for the next meal. Provide and maintain a safe environment through preventative and interventional measures, adhering to MMC's Infection Control, Safety, and Disaster P & P's. Tag and remove broken equipment immediately and communicate regarding broken equipment to the charge person of the unit. Maintain sanitary and safety standards required by NYSDOH via visual inspections against a checklist. Train other employees in area of responsibility to assure competent coverage when a regular associate is not available. Use effective interpersonal skills to communicate and collaborate with the Food and Nutrition Team, ensuring 100% compliance to quality. Communicate observations of patient/customer status to professionals; assist other staff members on a team within scope of practice; interact with co‑workers in a manner that promotes team building; be responsible and accountable for own actions, adhering to MMC's HR P & P; report on/off duty to designated supervisor for smooth operation. Qualifications High School diploma or equivalent. Experience pushing food truck. Completed OHS Fit Test. Completed OHS Annual Assessment. Equal Employment Opportunity Montefiore Medical Center is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore Medical Center will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, lay off and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr 3000 Montefiore Medical Center