Dietary Assistant

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Dietary Assistant to join our team at WVU Medicine. As a Dietary Assistant, you will play a vital role in providing exceptional patient care and ensuring the highest quality food service in our hospital setting.

• Prepare all work areas for operation, including filling buckets with sanitizing solution and maintaining sanitizer strength throughout the shift.
• Set up areas, restock, clean, and organize assigned areas, maintaining cleanliness throughout the shift.
• Produce and maintain attractive, appetizing, and quality food and beverage products, following menu cycles, proper portions, and standardized recipes.
• Greets customers, politely asks for orders, and efficiently serves customers, remaining focused on the customer and service throughout the encounter.
• Cleans spills promptly, removes trash from service areas, and merchandises areas through clean, uncluttered, attractive, and orderly arrangements.
• Ensures all activities meet sanitation, safety, and quality control guidelines set forth by departmental policies.
• Documents refrigerator, dish machine, or other equipment temperatures as assigned and alerts facilities and management of malfunctioning equipment.
• Properly operates, cleans, and stores equipment in assigned areas and properly stores and labels food items and chemicals.

• Ability to push fully loaded tray carts (approx. 250 lbs).
• Ability to stand for extended periods of time.
• Requires patient interaction with some conditions/appearance that may be distressing.
• Enter isolation precaution patient rooms with proper protective equipment.

• Ability to understand written and oral communication.
• Computer skills - know how to use basic computer components (keyboard, mouse, tablet) and basic computer applications such as Microsoft Word.
• Telephone skills - know how to use speaker phones, headsets, and telephone etiquette.

WVU Medicine is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity among our workforce and invite applications from all qualified applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, gender identity and expression, socioeconomic status, language, national origin, religious affiliation, spiritual practice, age, mental and physical ability/disability or Veteran status.