Dietetic Technician, Registered
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Key details
- Location
- Greenport, NY, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Mid level
- Function
- Skilled trades & Manufacturing
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- Yesterday
Skills
About the role
Position Summary: This position requires the Dietetic Technician, Registered to assist the Director of Nutritional Services with the clinical and administrative functions of the Nutritional Services Department. The Dietetic Technician assists in obtaining diet history for use in the development of special patient menus and diet counseling; and assists in counseling diabetic patients and others with special needs about dietary requirements for their illnesses. The Dietetic Technician assists in supervising food preparation of special menus; interviews patients to get their reactions to quality of food service and their responses to their recommended diets and speaks to family members to make them aware of dietary needs of the patient and offer suggestions about following prescribed diets.
Job Duties & Essential Functions:
- Accurately screens patients deemed to be at nutritional risk.
- Demonstrates knowledge of therapeutic diets and the ability to use the diet manual as a resource.
- Oversees the accuracy of therapeutic diets and recipes.
- Interviews newly admitted patients for beverage and cereal preferences and for allergies/tolerances.
- Performs meal rounds and patient surveys as requested.
- Maintains the patient cardex.
- Tallies production and nourishment sheets accurately.
- Accurately enters data in into the computer system.
- Answers phones and relays messages to designated persons.
- Accurately records meal count.
- Monitors quality of menu items and accuracy of service on the tray line and records food temperatures, menu substitutions, overages and shortages.
- Monitors employees to assure adherence of sanitation and infection control policies.
- Monitors the receiving and storage of foods.
- Observes use of small and large equipment to insure adherence to proper procedure.
- Purchases food and non-food supplies as needed and maintains proper inventory levels.
- Performs on-the-job training of new employees.
- Effectively schedules employees and performs payroll, as necessary.
- Answers phones and relays messages to designated persons.
- Accurately records meal count and enters data into the computer.
- Purchases food and non-food supplies as needed and maintains inventory levels.
- Accurately records costs of supplies and non-patient meal count and enters into the computer.
- Distributes menus, assistant patients needed to assure that food items are selected by them.
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