Patient Food Hosp Attendant- FT- Shift Varies- Horizon West

Job description

Position Summary
"Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work" is not just something we say, it's our promise to you."
ORLANDO HEALTH HORIZON WEST HOSPITAL
Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital is a 60-bed acute-care hospital – with room to grow to 120-beds – located in the Horizon West community of Winter Garden, Florida. The facility offers a full complement of services, including heart care with complete cardio-diagnostic capabilities, digestive health, emergency care, outpatient imaging and lab, orthopedics and sports medicine, and reflux and esophageal disorders. Advanced surgical services include minimally invasive and robotic surgery options with specialty in general, thoracic, podiatric, orthopedic and advanced gynecologic procedures. The hospital has earned Primary Stroke Center and Joint Replacement certification from The Joint Commission and a repeat “A” Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for Spring 2025.
Orlando Health Horizon West is part of the Orlando Health system of care, which includes award-winning hospitals and ERs, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices and outpatient facilities that span Florida’s east to west coasts, Central Alabama and Puerto Rico. Collectively, our team members honor our over 100-year legacy by providing professional and compassionate care to the patients, families and communities we serve.
Orlando Health is committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, with career-growing FREE education programs and well-being services to support you and your family through every stage of life. We begin your benefits on day one and offer flexibility wherever possible, so that you can be present for your passions.“Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work” is not just something we say, it’s our promise to you.
WHY ORLANDO HEALTH?
Amazing Culture
Join a team where collaboration, respect, and making a difference in patients’ lives are at the heart of what we do.
Competitive Pay
Competitive compensation, plus evening, night, and weekend shift differentials for qualifying positions.
Benefits Starting Day One
Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package from your first day, including:
• Student loan repayment
• Tuition reimbursement
• FREE college education programs
• Retirement savings
• Paid paternity leave
• Fertility benefits
• Backup elder and childcare
• Pet insurance
• PTO and paid holidays
• And more!

Career Growth & Development
Build your career with opportunities to learn, grow, and advance within a leading healthcare organization.
Make a Difference
Be part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to providing exceptional care and improving the health and well-being of the communities we serve.
Be Part of Something Bigger
At Orlando Health, your work matters. Whether you're caring directly for patients or supporting those who do, every role makes a difference.
A Brief Overview
The Patient Food Hospitality Attendant is at the forefront of customer service, providing Orlando Health patients and guests with service above and beyond expectations to ensure a memorable food and dining experience.
Responsibilities
What you will do
• Displays excellent communication and customer service skills with patients, nursing staff and visitors.
• Responsible for delivery of the proper tray to the correct patient using proper customer service skills.
• Functions as an integral part of the Orlando Health team to support the nutritional needs of the patient.
• Responsible for arranging trays on delivery cart and logging delivery times.
• Logs tray locations and ensures trays are delivered to patients within a reasonable required time.
• Responsible for collection of money for guest trays and the logging of money with the diet office.
• Responsible for collection and removal of soiled trays from floors and for keeping work areas cleaned.
• Coordinates tray delivery with the expediter and with the diet office when necessary.
• Assists with expediting trays from list and call preparation areas, checking trays for accuracy and completeness.
• Monitors patient diet prescription, diet order changes, nourishment orders, late tray requests and quality standards.
• Accurately takes and checks patient menus according to physician diet orders.
• Adheres to patient’s food allergies, intolerance’s and food preferences in a timely fashion. Knowledgeable of nutritional meal patterns and able to modify diets accordingly with the assistance of the Diet Office System.
• Models essential service behaviors, such as excellent communication and customer service skills with patients, nursing staff, team members and visitors, interacting cooperatively and constructively and communicating in an open, honest, gracious and compassionate manner at all times, including person to person, telephone and written forms.
• Interacts appropriately with a culturally diverse population.
• Follows chain of command when communicating departmental and individual concerns or problems.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
• Participates in departmental meetings and all related in-services and Performance Improvement activities.
• Knowledgeable of Patient Satisfaction goals. Works consistently to exceed the department’s and Orlando Health’s objectives by reporting concerns and suggesting creative ideas.
• Recognizes priority and protects the patient’s right to confidentiality.
• Refers patient’s concerns to the Food & Nutrition Leadership team or Clinical Nutrition team as needed.
• Observes all departmental rules and regulations.
• Prepares and maintains workstations for meal service.
• Performs all duties of the assigned work station as described by the work station’s job task list.
• Provides complete and accurate documentation as required by the assigned work station and job task list.
• Assists with training of new team members in tray passing duties.
• Coordinates and assists with special projects relating to the Food and Nutrition Department.
• Recognizes that flexibility is paramount and change is continuous; the team member must embrace, encourage and drive change; approach situations and challenges with an open mind; work rotating shifts according to experience and business needs; be able and willing to be cross-trained in varied positions and performs other duties as assigned.
• Aware of and follows Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points, (HACCP), precautions and sanitation requirements as they apply to food service.
• Aware of and follows all universal precautions as they apply to food service.

Qualifications
• Ability to read and recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers.
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