DAILY PAY AVAILABLE!

Looking for a fulfilling job that lets you help patients in need? Look no further than Missouri Baptist Medical Center! We’re currently seeking Patient Dining Associates to join our team. As a Patient Dining Associate, you’ll provide a reassuring presence while taking patient orders/preparing trays and delivering patient meals. Join us in our mission to provide quality care and make a difference in our patients’ lives.

• Full Time Role - 36 Hours a Week
• 6:15 a.m. - 6:45 p.m.
• Works 3/12 shifts a week
• Rotating Holidays and Works Every Other Weekend
• Requires Direct Patient Interaction

Overview
Missouri Baptist Medical Center, an acute care hospital in St. Louis County, offers a full continuum of medical and surgical services, including heart care, cancer, women and infants, breast health, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, stroke, therapy, wound and pain management services. The hospital has a 24-hour adult emergency department and cares for pediatric patients at a separate emergency department in collaboration with St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Missouri Baptist is the first and only hospital in St. Louis County to be named a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The prestigious designation is the highest credential a health care organization can receive for nursing excellence and quality patient care. This recognition has been accomplished by less than nine percent of hospitals nationwide. Additionally, U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital #2 in the St. Louis metro area.
The Food and Nutrition Services department at Missouri Baptist Medical Center’s mission is to provide nutritionally balanced meals and medical nutrition therapy for patients, staff and visitors of Missouri Baptist Medical Center by working collaboratively with the facility’s nursing, ancillary and medical staff professionals. Our licensed clinical dieticians provide medical nutrition therapy to both inpatients and outpatients as it relates to their personal medical needs. The department’s patient services, production and retail teams work to deliver a variety of food offerings on a daily basis that are nutritionally balanced, healthy, flavorful and fresh for the hospital’s patients, employees and visitors.
Preferred Qualifications

EXPERIENCE

• No Experience

SUPERVISOR EXPERIENCE

• No Experience

EDUCATION

• High School Diploma or GED
  Benefits and Legal Statement

ROLE PURPOSE

Performs patient meal service for the Department of Food and Nutrition. Responsible for patient meal service on assigned units. This includes menu selections, tray assembly, catering rounds, tray delivery and retrieval, recording of intake/calorie counts, special requests, galley/floor stock maintenance, and nourishment delivery. Communicates directly with nursing to obtain updated diet orders. Responds to patient, family and nursing needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Delivers patient meals to assigned areas, documents meals and calorie intake and rounds on patients in accordance to department expectations.
• Assembles meal trays and menus in accordance to guidelines.
• Communicates patient diets, delivery of meals and special requests with patient care team.
• Maintains an organized and stocked galley.