Dietary Aide - On-Call

ABOUT US

Channing House is a leading not-for-profit Life Care Community in Palo Alto, founded in 1960. We believe that older adults thrive in a vibrant setting that supports active, engaged and healthy living. We provide a sustainable, innovative community that promotes this lifestyle, while embracing respect and dignity for all who live and work here. Our team of 170 staff members, from Front-Line to Leadership, drive the mission of Channing House, providing services to the 265 highly engaged residents who call Channing House their home.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Dietary Aide works to ensure that therapeutic diets are safely served to residents. This position is responsible for the production of meal tickets, nourishment labels and production tallies for resident/patient menus. The Dietary Aide is also responsible for interdepartmental telephone inquiries, maintaining all office equipment, and managing supply inventory for nutrition office. Together with the entire team at Channing House, your role contributes to promoting a healthy and vibrant home for our residents. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position will be responsible for, but not limited to the following essential duties and responsibilities: 

Dietary Planning and Assistance:

• Provide the highest quality of service to customers at all times. Visit patients to provide assistance with menu. 
• Prepares dietary information for use by kitchen personnel in preparation of foods.
• Examines diet orders and menus received from hospital units; tallies portions/foods of general and soft diets. 
• Processes new diets and changes as required. Calculate diabetic diets following standards established by Clinical Dietary Manager or Dietician. 
• Collaborate with CNA’s/nurses to provide outstanding dining service, from ordering to clean up.
• Participate in tray line and food temperature monitoring.
• Communicate patient needs to appropriate staff while maintaining patient confidentiality.
• Answer telephone and intercom calls and relay information to kitchen concerning meal changes, complaints or patient discharge.
• Prepare and deliver formula and special nourishments to unit pantries.
• Create systems and solutions to ensure efficiency in service.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Work Environment: 

• Generally in an indoor, controlled temperate environment.
• May supervise activities and events outdoors and be exposed to heat/cold during support of outside activities.
• Position requires varying schedule to include ability evenings, holidays, weekends, and extended hours as business dictates. 
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Physical Demands:  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to:

• Stand on your feet throughout work period. Significant walking or other means of mobility. 
• Possess multi-limb and eye-hand coordination.
• Able to reach, bend, stoop, push and/or pull, and frequently lift/move up to 25 pounds. 
• Utilize specific vision abilities for viewing work related processes and materials handling.
• Able to sit at a desk, working on computers and operating phones.

Channing House Diversity Statement:

Channing House is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and all other employment laws and regulations. It is our intent to maintain a work environment that is free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation based on an individual's race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity and gender expression), age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. Channing House is dedicated to the fulfillment of this policy in regard to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, placement, transfer, training, promotion, rates of pay, and other compensation, termination, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

For a complete job description, please email: recruiting@channinghouse.org

Compensation details: 24-32.19 Hourly Wage