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Advocate Health Care

Nonprofit health system delivering comprehensive care

Host/Hostess

Dining, Bar & Counter ServiceConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Part-timeLibertyville, IL, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Six months to one year of hospitality industry or customer service experience is preferable.
  • Ability to speak, read, and write English clearly and proficiently.
  • Basic computer skills, including data entry.
  • Math skills for conversions of ounces, cubic centimeters, and milliliters.
  • Ability to communicate effectively.
  • Ability to work flexible hours between 5:00 A.M. and 8:30 P.M., including weekends and holidays.
  • Ability to walk for significant periods while going to patient rooms.
  • Ability to handle various tasks simultaneously, especially during peak hours.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds occasionally with assistance and/or 10 to 15 pounds frequently.
  • For direct patient-care or direct patient-contact work, ability to lift up to 35 pounds without assistance; for patient lifts over 35 pounds or when the patient cannot assist, use patient-handling equipment with at least one other associate when available.
  • Observe safety and sanitation practices when entering patient rooms or the kitchen.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure physician diet orders are met by maintaining current and accurate patient card files and following diet-compliance standards.
  • Follow physician diet orders for all patients; update and maintain patient card files in the automated diet office; follow diet standards when entering selections into the computer or modifying and checking menus; and update and maintain nourishment orders.
  • Use CBORD and Care Connection to support meal selection and process diet orders and changes.
  • Assist patients with room service when appropriate and help patients and families with menu selections.
  • Communicate with nursing, room service operators, and kitchen staff to clarify orders and provide prompt service; communicate special patient needs to dietitians.
  • Seek additional training and knowledge of CBORD, use manuals and technical support, and perform all host/hostess positions accurately.
  • Assist with training other employees and attend scheduled in-services and meetings.
  • Distribute patient meals and verify diet and meal accuracy at the point of service.
  • Retrieve soiled meal trays from patient areas and transport them to the designated cart.
  • Deliver nourishments to assigned patients and bulk nourishments to assigned unit kitchens, and properly store bulk nourishments in unit kitchens.
  • Communicate wrong or missing items to the kitchen and communicate patients’ needs to nursing.
  • Document patient intakes and calorie counts for designated patients.
  • Perform additional miscellaneous duties and communicate status to a supervisor.

Desired Qualifications

  • Six months to one year of hospitality industry or customer service experience is preferred.

About the Company

Advocate Health Care

Nonprofit health system delivering comprehensive care

Advocate Health Care is a faith-based nonprofit health system serving Illinois and Wisconsin with a network of hospitals, clinics, and providers. It delivers a broad range of medical services using current techniques and ongoing research, coordinated through clinical integration. The organization offers financial advocacy and assistance to help uninsured or underinsured patients manage hospital bills. Its goal is to improve patient care and expand access by combining high-quality medical services, financial support, and a commitment to clinical excellence.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Late Stage VC
Total funding
$18M
Headquarters
Oak Brook, IL
Founded
1976

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