Dietary Aide/ Dietary / Per Diem

Elevate your career at Wood County Hospital, where you're not just a number – you're a vital part of a team making a real difference. Dietary Aide/ Dietary / Per Diem Provides personal care and professional excellence by performing a variety of kitchen duties as assigned in a quality manner.

1. Assembles prepared foods accurately for regular or modified diet trays, safely delivers trays to serving areas or to patients, and returns trays to clean-up areas.
2. May prepare and serve between meal nourishments for patients.
3. May work alone or as part of a team effectively on a moving assembly line in the main kitchen.
4. May accurately and safely tend and load machines that clean food-service items or may hand wash items that are not machine washable.
5. Delivers clean dishes and utensils to proper kitchen units.
6. Thoroughly cleans work areas, tables, and cabinets. Observes infection control practices at all times.
7. Thoroughly washes and cleans fruits and vegetables and peels, dices, shreds, or slices them using kitchen hand utensils.
8. May prepare sandwiches or other dishes as needed.
9. Maintains good working relationship both within the department and with other departments. Treats patient and families with respect and dignity.
10. Prepares serving of desserts and appetizers by preparing fruit cups, cutting pies into individual portions, and placing other desserts on individual dishes.
11. Performs accurately other duties for which he/she has been trained. Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
12. Other duties as assigned.