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Richmond University Medical Center

Staten Island hospital and medical care

Food Guest Representative

Clinical Support & Patient AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeStaten Island, NY, USA$27.46 - $28.86 /hr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Knowledge of therapeutic diets and ability to modify patient menus according to prescribed diet orders.
  • Ability to calculate diabetic, renal, and fluid restrictions.
  • Ability to follow infection-control, food-safety, waste-management, and applicable regulatory procedures.
  • Ability to complete assigned tasks within the shift and communicate unfinished assignments, problems, and priorities to the manager.
  • Ability to recognize patient needs related to the age of the patient population.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver patient meal trays promptly and courteously, and pick them up from assigned units.
  • Ensure trays meet prescribed dietary requirements and patient preferences, including menu selections and allergy alerts.
  • Maintain cleanliness and sanitation in food-service areas and remove outdated, expired, or mishandled food items.
  • Communicate with patients and staff about meal options and dietary restrictions, and communicate diet-related issues with registered dietitians and nursing staff.
  • Assist with tray assembly, dishwashing, and inventory management as needed; maintain diet-office supplies.
  • Process diet orders and changes, verify diet-change information, answer diet-office phone calls, and record and process call information.
  • Tally patient-menu items for hot and cold production areas.
  • Maintain patient refrigerators on assigned units, including temperature logs and floor stock.
  • Participate in quality-control, quality-assurance, and quality-improvement activities.
  • Maintain a neat, clean, and orderly work environment; complete cleaning, organizing, and coworker-assistance tasks during light workloads.
  • Communicate to the manager any assignments that could not be completed and any problems or priorities of concern.
  • Complete required annual training on time and follow established training programs and systems.
  • Follow the organization's recycling and waste-management processes.
  • Complete all assigned work within the shift without leaving an excessive workload for following shifts.

About the Company

Richmond University Medical Center

Staten Island hospital and medical care

Richmond University Medical Center is a nonprofit teaching hospital and healthcare provider on Staten Island. It offers emergency, inpatient, surgical, behavioral-health, maternity, pediatric, diagnostic, primary, and specialty services. The medical center serves Staten Island residents through hospital departments, ambulatory locations, and community programs. Care delivery combines physicians, nurses, allied-health professionals, education, clinical support, and hospital operations. Its workforce spans medicine, nursing, behavioral health, imaging, laboratories, patient access, facilities, technology, and administration.

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