Food & Nutrition Team Lead - Nutrition Services, Per Diem

Dietetic Aide Team Lead

The Food & Nutrition Services (FNS) Department at Dartmouth-Hitchcock encompasses Patient Food Services, Clinical Nutrition, and Dining Services. FNS aims to provide a nutritional environment which supports a population-level approach to a healthy diet and aligns with the D-H commitment to improve the health and wellness of our patients, employees, and community and create a sustainable health system.

The Dietetic Aide Team Lead at Dartmouth-Hitchcock coordinates the workflow and provides training and leadership to staff. Responsibilities include:

• Coordinates the workflow and work priority within the team.
• Provides technical guidance, oversight and mentoring to team members.
• Provides on-the-job training to assigned staff, where necessary and identifies training opportunities.
• Provides input to leadership regarding performance and/or need for disciplinary action.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.
• Assists with tray delivery and collecting menus.
• Corrects patient menus on assigned units based on physicians' order and Nutrition Care Manual.
• Assists patient with menu completion and checks patients' satisfaction with selections and compliance with physicians' diet order.
• Collects diet change sheets and completes diet changes using computer reports.
• Prints special nourishment labels and lists for Production.
• Prints and checks menus and tray tickets following specific instructions regarding patient nutritional care.
• Checks patient tray line by comparing patient menu selections with tray items. Requests that the Diet Office make appropriate therapeutic substitutions.
• Uses ADT printer slips to update electronic cardexes as per protocol.
• Answers phone using telephone log sheet to record all messages. Processes requests as established within clinical policies and procedures.
• Counts and records diet census and tube feeding orders.
• Makes note of patient choices, correcting as necessary using computer-generated reports. Prints and distributes tally reports.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma (or GED) strongly preferred.
• 1 year of related dietary experience preferred.
• Must have good verbal, written communication and computer skills.

Pay Range: $18.50/Hr. - $26.35/Hr.

FTE/Hours per pay period:.01 hrs/per week (per diem/temp)

Shift: Rotating

Job ID: 36342

Dartmouth Health offers a total compensation package that includes a comprehensive selection of benefits. Our Core Benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, paid time off, and retirement plans.

Dartmouth Health is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.