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Philadelphia, PA
Diet Clerk
Philadelphia, PA
Grady-Spencer
Philadelphia, PA
Diet Clerk
  • Identifies patients correctly by checking bed/wrist identification against the name written on the patients’ menu
  • Assists in dish room
  • Adheres to all Aramark appearance standards and maintains a professional dress at all times while working
  • Reports any problems found during meal service to dietitian or zone manager and takes corrective action to resolve any issues as they arise
  • Reports any problems found during meal service to the dietitian/manager and takes corrective action to resolve any issues as they arise
  • Processes nourishment orders according to the Aramark established procedures
  • Assist with organizing, planning, and presenting clinical in-services to FNS employees, students, and other healthcare professionals, as requested
Los Angeles, CA
Diet Clerk
Los Angeles, CA
Quigley-Wiegand
Los Angeles, CA
Diet Clerk
  • Participates in hospital or departmental performance improvement activities, and seeks opportunities to improve department and inter-department processes
  • Greets patients in a courteous and professional manner and offers assistance with meal trays according to established procedures
  • Communicates ideas for improvement to management
  • Assists in the delivery of patient meal trays and food items to the assigned areas within the hospital
  • Provides a safe environment for patient, visitor and employees through identifying/correcting/reporting health and safety hazards
  • Makes recommendations for nourishments to clinical staff
  • Cleans patient rooms daily and provides trash removal
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Detroit, MI
Diet Clerk Several Openings
Detroit, MI
Howell-Schinner
present
Detroit, MI
Diet Clerk Several Openings
present
  • Answers the telephone, responds to customer emails and provides general assistance to customers
  • Maintains a clean and safe work environment
  • Performs other duties as assigned
  • Interacts effectively with staff, students and faculty while conducting daily workplace duties
  • Communicates with customers to complete work in a cost-effective, efficient and safe manner
  • Assists in the preparation and proofing of materials for reports and other publications
  • Provides clerical support; maintains files and records
Education Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science
Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science
University of Memphis
Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science
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8 Diet Clerk resume templates

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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Receives diet orders from the electronic medical record and maintains current diet order in the automated diet office system; CBORD
  • Basic computer skills to include keyboarding, mouse movement, run reports and data entry skills
  • Bilingual in one other language is desired for this role to better serve the community and patient population
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • High school diploma or equivalent required
  • Must be able to read, write, and comprehend English. Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
  • One year work experience in food service or customer service required. Experience in healthcare or therapeutic
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Maintains patient confidentiality according to HIPPA regulations
  • Directly assists the Nutrition Care Specialist and Clinical Dietitians in managing patient menus
  • Accurately and efficiently process diet orders and changes to ensure patient meals are correct
  • Prepares cold food and snack items for patient trays
  • Assembles patient meal trays. Is able to supervise patient meal tray line, monitoring each tray for correctness and loading trays onto food carts
  • Maintains and updates patient Kardex with current diet orders and patient information
  • Prepares modified diet menus in accordance with patient’s diet restrictions prior to distribution
  • Corrects and clarifies patient’s menu selections to reflect current prescribed diet for patients
  • Prepares production sheets for cooks and cold food preparation
  • Answers the telephone promptly in a courteous and professional manner. Takes messages and communicates accurately, including MD Orders for Nutrition Consults
  • Maintains daily meal count sheets and nourishment list. Writes nourishment labels and communicates them to appropriate cook. Prepares patient snacks
  • Works with Nutrition Care Specialist, nursing staff, patients and/or families concerning patient’s diet requests and food preference. Assists patients with menu selection
  • Inventories and maintains par levels for nursing units and staff lounge Nutrition Areas, as assigned
  • Demonstrates willingness to be flexible with assignments; assist with team building and problem solving; and works on department quality improvement projects, as needs arises
  • Plans work time well and is efficient in task completion. Able to effectively meet established deadline for production, breaks and Diet Office tasks. Responds in a cooperative manner to crisis/emergency workload
  • Communicates in timely manner with Nutrition Care Specialist, Clinical Dietitians Supervisor and Production Leads, as appropriate with information that impact patient’s nutritional care
  • Responsible for staffing Café 101, opening and closing Café 101, counting cash, transfer of cash between cafeteria and department safe, as assigned. Maintains professionalism and fosters positive customer relationships
  • Follows personal safety, food safety and sanitation policies and procedures
  • Maintains inventory of patient menus, diet office supplies, and photocopy requests
  • Works on special projects as needed or assigned
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Delivers patients’ meal trays and food items in assigned areas according to established procedures, quality standards, sanitary food service practices, and universal precautions
  • Greets patients in a courteous and professional manner and offers assistance with meal trays according to established procedures
  • Communicates relevant information in a responsive manner to personnel in other departments to ensure quality patient care
  • Identifies patients correctly by checking bed/wrist identification against the name written on the patients’ menu
  • Maintains floor stock inventories, as assigned, and restocks cart daily. Maintains sanitation of floor supplies stock cart
  • Makes recommendations for nourishments to clinical staff
  • Cleans patient rooms daily and provides trash removal
  • Offers refills on hot beverages and substitutions or corrections on meal trays (according to menu)
  • Adheres to all Aramark appearance standards and maintains a professional dress at all times while working
  • Reports any problems found during meal service to dietitian or zone manager and takes corrective action to resolve any issues as they arise
  • High School Degree or GED preferred. Current student considered
  • Previous experience in food service or related field is preferred
  • Mathematical ability required. Must be able to perform simple mathematical calculations
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Implements Computrition System to generate production and feeding/supplement sheets to kitchen
  • Processes Diet Orders from the Meditech System
  • Generates tray tickets through Traygen in Computrition
  • Provides Room Service daily for Women’s Hospital and Sarah Cannon Hospital
  • Facilitates open communication between Nutrition Services and patients and other Ancillary Departments
  • Trains Dietetic Interns and Dietetic Students
  • Supports the facility’s Standards of Performance and ICARE values
  • Previous experience preferred
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition or equivalent preferred
  • 6 months experience in a health care environment preferred
  • Good interpersonal/communication skills
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Maintains friendly, efficient, positive customer service attitude toward customers, clients and co-workers. Is responsive to customer needs
  • Keeps patient diet order lists, tube feeding lists, and other communication devices current, recording diet changes as necessary
  • Collects, corrects, and updates menus according to physician orders and nutrition requirements
  • Greets patients and informs of menu selection process in a timely fashion
  • Communicates in a responsive manner to personnel in other departments to ensure quality patient care
  • Confers with dieticians or appropriate manager regarding problems related to nutrition care service and distribution of food to assigned patients
  • Prepares menus for distribution and tally and reviews for completeness; brings any problems to attention of clinical staff
  • Maintains an accurate inventory of patient menus, education materials, forms, and supplies
  • Processes nourishment orders according to the Aramark established procedures
  • Assists in the delivery of patient meal trays and food items to the assigned areas within the hospital
  • Reports any problems found during meal service to the dietitian/manager and takes corrective action to resolve any issues as they arise
  • Job Qualifications
  • Position prefers the individual to have a high school degree or G.E.D
  • Courses in clinical field are preferred. Previous experience as diet clerk or in related field is preferred
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Participates in hospital or departmental performance improvement activities, and seeks opportunities to improve department and inter-department processes
  • Takes appropriate measures to ensure safety of staff and patients
  • Performs clerical and technical tasks associated with the transcribing, calculation, and actual assembly and distribution of patient meals, nourishments, or formulas as ordered by the physician
  • Appropriate menu/food selection for neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult, geriatric, and physically challenged patients
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Examines diet orders and menus received from hospital units and prepares tallies of specific foods to be prepared in the kitchen
  • Processes new diets and changes as required. Generates and edits tray tickets, assembles tray ticket packets, and enters data into computer
  • Modifies diets following standards established by Dietitian
  • Answers telephone calls and relays information concerning meal changes, complaints, or patient discharge to Supervisor or Dietitian
  • Prepares and delivers formula and special nourishments to unit pantries
  • Works trayline/tray accuracy as required for timely and accurate patient service
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws
  • Keeps clinical staff informed of any requests for consults, teaching and/or calorie counts
  • Uses verbal communication including telephone conversations with Kaiser Permanente medical staff and co-workers
  • Provide lines of communication between Food and Nutrition Services (FANS) and other medical center departments
  • Processes and translates information, including new admissions, diet changes, transfers and discharges from computer patient information systems to patient menus and computerizedpatient information system and kardex files
  • Maintains material supplies including ordering, requesting, taking inventory, and distribution
  • May orient new employees
  • At least six (6) months of related work experience in food services
  • 20 wpm. Typing must be current within one (1) year. Please contact Human Resources for testing
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Works on patient trayline. Checks each tray on patient line, ensuring that there are no mistakes in diet. Put garnish on tray making sure that the food is appealing. Makes sure entire tray is presentable. Checks for spills and proper placement of items on tray
  • Accommodates patient request and nutrition needs. Inform the cooks of special orders in advance. Count and mark all snack items for diabetics and special needs patients. Assembles late trays for patient
  • Assist patient with food preferences and enters into order-entry
  • Fills out production sheets daily
  • Must be able to pass a background check and drug screen
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Takes patient orders over the phone
  • Under direct supervision of the Manager, the Diet clerk assembles patient meal orders and is able to check for tray accuracy if familiar with therapeutic diets
  • Requires past experience in hospital or long-term care facility with knowledge of therapeutic diet
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Correctly enters preference statements in CBORD by end of shift
  • Distributes nutrition education information as needed following established guidelines
  • Ensures accuracy of food served to patients when checking trayline
  • Has tray tickets cut and ready for trayline no later than 5 minutes before start of trayline
  • Meets full performance dashboard goal for patient satisfaction
  • Supports food production area and clinical dietitians by doing such things as making late trays, making photocopies, and interviewing
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Type 20 wpm. Typing score must be current within one (1) year. Please contact Human Resources for testing
  • Knowledge of modified diets
  • Fast paced computer skills for menu entry
  • Skills in phone communication for call center menu selections
  • Able to describe american cuisine food items
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Answers the telephone, responds to customer emails and provides general assistance to customers
  • Reviews and promotes service requests submitted by customers
  • Provides clerical support; maintains files and records
  • Collects, verifies, retrieves and enters data
  • Communicates with customers to complete work in a cost-effective, efficient and safe manner
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Demonstrates correct food handling techniques such as portioning serving sizes by using appropriate serving utensils, and controlling temperature of tray line foods in accordance to HACCP regulations
  • Demonstrates a complete understanding of prescribed sanitation regulations such as washing hands, changing of gloves/aprons, and use of sanitized water
  • Maintains and cleans work areas, including floors, facilities, utensils, and equipment; collects and places garbage and trash in designated containers. Delivers and retrieves patient food trays in a timely manner and at the proper temperatures
  • Demonstrate the ability to work at least 50% of the stations on tray line
  • Replenishes foods, silverware, dishes, and trays at serving stations; may replenish condiments as needed
  • Understands basic diet restrictions as applied to tray line operations, and adheres to established tray line procedures to meet the diet restrictions
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • At least sixteen years of age. High school graduate or equivalent
  • Able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
  • Previous patient food service experience preferred
  • Dietary office experience preferred
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Diet Clerk Several Openings Resume Examples & Samples

  • Prepares routine correspondence, forms and other documents
  • Operates standard office equipment
  • Completes project assignments
  • Assists in the preparation and proofing of materials for reports and other publications
  • Interacts effectively with staff, students and faculty while conducting daily workplace duties
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Takes new diet orders over the phone or from a computer; enters new patients in diet rands and bed rands; enters patients likes and dislikes in diet rands; fills out appropriate meal slips and nourishment cards so that patients receive meals and snacks, if applicable; tallies food choices of all patients so that adequate amounts of food items can be prepared to meet the demand
  • Prepares patients' meal slips according to the current diet order on Diet Census before each meal
  • Selects food items for patients who are unable to select their own meals; using preprinted menus and meal patterns (written by dietitians in consultation with physicians); selects food items for patients on restricted diets so as to comply with the specified restrictions; selects food items for patients on regular, calorie-controlled, salt-free, low-protein, low cholesterol, low-fat, fluid-restricted, soft, pureed, or bland diets, using preprinted menus and meal patterns; modifies food items for patients per Dietitians and Diet Technicians' direction
  • Follows up on meals served to patients to establish whether meals are being satisfactorily prepared, served, etc; acts to correct complaints regarding quantity or quality of food served; may work as the checker on kitchen tray lines checking temperature, appearance of meals and contents of food trays to insure that diet restrictions as specified by menu cards are being followed
  • Reviews the menus of patients who select their own meals but who are on restricted diets, to insure that they stay within their restrictions; refers questions or complex problems to Dietitians for guidance and/or resolution; distributes and picks up menus from patients who select their own meals; may make ward rounds each day to check diet restrictions for new patients or may interview patients to determine their food preferences
  • Keeps records of patient's diets, actual meals and foods served to patient areas and food productions sheets; maintains inventory of dietary office's supplies, forms, and menus; files discharge patient profile cards
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Maintains accurate diet orders/patient information in Computrition
  • Ensures that all meal tickets are correct when tray line starts
  • Ensures that patient menus and special requests are tallied for production
  • Communicates with cooks/cold foods personnel regarding production needs for the tray line
  • Checks each tray on patient line, ensuring that there are no mistakes in diet. Makes sure entire tray is presentable. Checks for spills and proper placement of items on tray
  • Follows safety and sanitization procedures as directed by department
  • Helps maintain tray line cleanliness and organization
  • Accommodates patient request and nutrition needs
  • Counts and marks all snack items for diabetics and special need patients
  • Assembles snacks
  • Stocks condiment items utilized on the trayline
  • Provides basic nutrition education to inpatients and outpatients as appropriate/requested
  • Develops new instruction materials according to recent research and ADA standards, as indicated
  • Completes calorie counts. Calculates calorie/protein intake and documents as appropriate
  • Communicates ideas for improvement to management
  • Assist with organizing, planning, and presenting clinical in-services to FNS employees, students, and other healthcare professionals, as requested
  • Completes quality assurance reports as assigned
  • Documents equipment temperatures as assigned
  • Completes documentation and record keeping as assigned by the dietitian
  • Files and documents information as indicated
  • Assists in dish room
  • Assist patients with food preferences and enters into Computrition
  • Enters changes for nutritional supplements into Computrition
  • Prints and distributes all paperwork at appropriate times
  • Orients and mentors staff
  • Provides a safe environment for patient, visitor and employees through identifying/correcting/reporting health and safety hazards
  • Must have computer skills, phone etiquette and personable bedside manner
  • Must have knowledge of nutrition and diet therapy
  • Must be able to read menus and determine diet appropriateness
  • Ability to perform work that requires prolonged, extensive or considerable standing/walking; frequently moves supplies and equipment requiring moderate physical effort to lift/carry/push/pull up to 30 lbs
  • Nutrition degree preferred
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Diet Clerk Resume Examples & Samples

  • Current Food Handlers Card in Washington State
  • Two years varied experience in hospital food service setting and three to six months experience with diet therapy
  • High School Diploma or G.E.D. preferred