Skip to main content

Career Opportunities

With us, you're more than the job you do

Search Jobs Close

Search Jobs

Learn more about working at Mount Auburn Hospital

Diet Aide

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Organization Facility: Mount Auburn Hospital Category: Clinical Nutrition Job ID: JR46166 Date posted: 04/18/2024
Apply Now

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

20

Work Shift:

Evening (United States of America)

A variety of food services duties in the main kitchen are performed including tray set up and delivery. Other duties as assigned are also performed.

Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities (including but not limited to): 
1.    Passes menus to appropriate patients according to name and room number, and presents a positive image to the customer.
2.    Portions food for tray line.
3.    Stocks and restocks tray line stations with food supplies.
4.    Assists in loading trays onto meal trucks.
5.    Prepares and delivers patient between-meal nourishments for Mount Auburn Hospital and necessary tube feedings.
6.    Inventories par stock for specifically designated nursing units.
7.    Delivers late trays to patients.
8.    Retrieves trays from patient care area.
9.    Cleans and sanitizes assigned work area.
10.    Scrapes dishes and loads dishes and trays into dishwasher.
11.    Resets tray line for next meal.
12.    Works continuously to improve the total quality of the department and other departments within the institution.
13.    Works under the direction of the lead diet aide and food services supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications: 
1.    Ability to read English and comprehend and follow verbal and some written instructions. 
2.    Ability to read and write at level three as documented on "Invest," the hospital's Employee Learning Laboratory software.  
3.    Communication skills are relevant to delivering patient trays and for all contacts in the hospital. 

Physical Requirements & Environment: 
1.    Thirty-three percent of the time is spent in the dish room scraping trays. 
2.    Noise levels and steam cause high temperatures. 
3.    Damp or wet floors. 
4.    Long periods of time standing. 

FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Apply Now

Related Jobs

View All of Our Available Opportunities

See where you could be working

Comprehensive benefits that will empower you

Read More

Why join Beth Israel Lahey Health?

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a difference and explore your potential, Beth Israel Lahey Health is the place you belong. Our system includes a network of hospitals, physician practices, outpatient centers, and other healthcare facilities and we offer a broad range of careers in direct patient care, environmental services, registration, finance and many other fields. We are focused on providing compassionate and personalized healthcare with a strong reputation for clinical excellence and research and offer diverse opportunities for career growth and development. Conveniently, we have many locations in communities across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.

At Beth Israel Lahey Health, we see you for all that you are – your experience and your dreams. Explore our open opportunities and find out why so many have already chosen to join our team.

View All Opportunities

Haven't found what you're looking for?
Sign up for our job alerts.

Join our Talent Community and be the first to know about our job openings.

By submitting your information, you acknowledge that you have read our privacy policy and consent to receive email communications from Beth Israel Lahey Health.

Already a member?