Dietary Aide / Server

Dietary Aide / Server - Bellevue Post-Acute | Bellevue, WA

Join our dedicated Dietary Services team in providing safe, timely, and compassionate meal service to residents in our skilled nursing facility. The Dietary Aide / Server plays an important role in supporting resident health, dignity, comfort, and quality of life by assisting with meal preparation, tray service, dining room service, sanitation, and maintaining a clean and welcoming dining environment.

The Dietary Aide / Server assists with preparing and serving meals according to established menus, diet orders, resident preferences, and facility policies. This position works closely with the Dietary Services Supervisor, Cook, and other dietary team members to ensure meals are prepared, assembled, delivered, and served accurately and on schedule while maintaining food safety, sanitation, infection control, and regulatory requirements.

Reporting: This position reports directly to the Dietary Services Supervisor.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with preparing, portioning, assembling, and serving meals and beverages according to established menus, recipes, diet orders, and resident preferences.

• Assemble resident meal trays accurately according to tray tickets, diet cards, special instructions, and physician-ordered diets.

• Verify that resident trays contain the correct meal, food items, beverages, condiments, and necessary utensils before delivery.

• Deliver and serve meals to residents in resident rooms, dining areas, or other designated locations according to facility procedures.

• Provide courteous and respectful assistance to residents during meal service while maintaining their dignity, privacy, and independence.

• Assist residents with opening food containers, positioning trays, or other basic meal-service needs when appropriate and within the scope of the position.

• Follow special dietary instructions and immediately report questions or discrepancies regarding resident diets to the appropriate Dietary Services Supervisor or nursing staff.

• Assist with food preparation tasks such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning, and preparing ingredients as directed by the Cook or Dietary Services Supervisor.

• Prepare beverages, snacks, desserts, salads, and other food items according to established menus and recipes.

• Maintain appropriate food temperatures and follow established procedures for hot and cold food handling.

• Clear meal trays and return dishes, utensils, and equipment to designated areas after meal service.

• Wash, sanitize, dry, and properly store dishes, utensils, trays, kitchen equipment, and other dietary service items.

• Maintain clean and sanitary food preparation, serving, dining, dishwashing, and storage areas throughout the shift.

• Assist with cleaning and sanitizing tables, chairs, countertops, food service equipment, carts, and other designated areas.

• Properly handle, label, date, store, and dispose of food and prepared meals according to facility policies and food safety requirements.

• Assist with receiving, stocking, rotating, and properly storing food and dietary supplies.

• Follow proper food rotation practices, including first-in, first-out procedures, to help minimize food waste and maintain product quality.

• Monitor food and supply levels and report shortages, damaged items, expired products, or other concerns to the Dietary Services Supervisor.

• Assist with inventory and other dietary department activities as assigned.

• Follow infection control, food safety, sanitation, universal precautions, and personal protective equipment requirements.

• Follow facility procedures for residents requiring special meal or tray handling.

• Report resident concerns, meal preferences, poor food acceptance, or changes observed during meal service to the appropriate supervisor or nursing staff.

• Maintain respectful communication with residents, families, nursing staff, dietary staff, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.

• Inspect assigned work areas for safety hazards, sanitation concerns, equipment problems, pests, or maintenance issues and report concerns promptly.

• Assist with preparation for county, state, and federal inspections and participate in required survey training.

• Attend assigned in-service education and apply training to daily job responsibilities.

• Immediately report injuries, unsafe conditions, hazardous situations, food safety concerns, or other incidents to the appropriate Supervisor or Administrator.

• Maintain work areas in a neat, organized, and clean condition.

• Respect and protect the rights, dignity, individuality, and confidentiality of every resident.

• Perform other duties as assigned.