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Staff Position

RDCD Dietician
SSM Health Southern Illinois
Mount Vernon, IL

$21-32/hour

Overview

  • Start DateASAP

Pay

Estimated pay
$21-32/hour

Description

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Processes orders received from the patient care system. Accurately produces meal tickets, nourishments, tube feedings instructions and any special instructions for patient menus.
  • Tallies and records all meals by unit for each meal. Communicates patient food needs to production staff by completing tallies accurately and within established time frame and by updating cooking staff on changes affecting production needs.
  • Assembles patient trays, prepares nourishments and checks for accuracy and quality standards.
  • Transports food trucks, delivers and picks up trays accurately and within established time frames and utilizing safe food handling and infection control processes. Communicates with units if any significant change in scheduled delivery or pick up.
  • Ensures patient meal, snack and enteral nutrition orders are complete and does not exceed dietary restrictions. Ensures patient safety by following diabetic order procedures. Communicates any patient need to appropriate staff while maintaining patient confidentiality.
  • Maintains a sanitary work environment through following established procedures. Ensures all equipment is maintained and in good working order.
  • Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.


EDUCATION

  • No education required


EXPERIENCE

  • No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
  • Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
  • Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
  • Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
  • Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
  • Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
  • Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
  • Rare climbing.

$1,500 sign-on bonus eligible. Be part of our exceptional team by assisting our patients with their meal orders. You will be contacting the patient by phone or by going to their room, receiving their meal order, and entering it into the computer. Experience using a laptop is beneficial. Must have good communication skills and a high level of customer service. Hours vary between 5:30am to 7:30pm. Every other weekend.

Under the supervision of a registered dietitian nutritionist, performs a variety of diet office functions in order to maintain the patient's nutrition care order accurately, and to organize the menus to ensure accuracy of diet order, timeliness of meal service and smooth food service operations.
Tyler Argo
Tyler Argo

Employer

SSM Health

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SSM Health has grown to be one of the largest integrated health systems in the country, because leadership, administration and providers work closely together to find solutions to the most pressing needs in medical care today. Collectively, our knowledge and resources are combined to innovate, optimize workflows and allow for better care delivery and patient interactions. Physicians and leadership engage in regular discussions designed to standardize practices that yield better outcomes across our system. Physicians, providers and health care leaders seeking the stability and resources of a large, reputable integrated health system, as well as the collegiality and respect of peers and the rewards of practicing in a faith-based organization, choose SSM Health as their ideal practice setting. SSM Health's 23 hospitals, more than 290+ physician offices and outpatient care sites, and 10 post-acute facilities offer vast opportunities to shape the future of health care throughout Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
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