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Food & Nutrition Dietary Aide

📍 Nashville, tennessee · · · 40 hrs/week

Allied HealthUHC-00137283
Candidate pay rate:$16/hr ≈ $640/wk before stipends Quick apply or call (408) 441-9200

Job description

Food & Nutrition Dietary Aide

Start Date: 10-05-2026

Contract Type: Contract

Hours per Week: 40

Candidate Pay Rate: $16 per hour

About United Health Care Staffing

At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.

Education

  • · Completes
  • self-competencies.
  • · Maintains
  • professional and productive work behavior.
  • Time & Attendance
  • · Follows Time &
  • Attendance policies and employee schedules.
  • III. Finance
  • Food & Supply Cost
  • ·
  • Utilizes cost control processes to meet goals and reduce
  • waste.
  • Purchasing & Compliance
  • · N/A
  • IV. Service
  • Patient Service
  • · Utilizes processes
  • to achieve patient satisfaction goals.
  • Retail Service
  • · Utilizes processes
  • to achieve customer satisfaction goals.
  • Doctors Lounge Service
  • · Utilizes processes
  • to achieve physician lounge objectives.
  • Catering Service
  • · Utilizes processes
  • to achieve catering goals.
  • Culinary
  • · Utilizes proper
  • equipment to produce standard recipes.
  • · Utilizes systems of
  • quality process/standards in food production.
  • Service Recovery
  • ·
  • Resolves
  • customer complaints and reports to the appropriate superior.
  • V. Technology
  • HCA/Computer Systems
  • · Utilizes HCA
  • hardware and software.
  • HCA/Computrition
  • · Utilizes
  • Computrition software.
  • Additional Responsibilities:
  • JOB
  • KNOWLEDGE / PRODUCTIVITY
  • 1. Completes work within acceptable time
  • limits. Demonstrates the ability to
  • set priorities.
  • 2. Able to perform several tasks
  • simultaneously during peak workload situations.
  • 3. Ensures accuracy and completeness of work
  • performed.
  • 4. Maintains a clean organized work area.
  • 5. Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of work
  • practices, emergency procedures, and personal protective
  • equipment
  • to protect self and others from exposure to chemical and infectious
  • hazards.
  • COMMUNICATION
  • / CUSTOMER SERVICE
  • 1.
  • Strives for
  • customer satisfaction.
  • 2.
  • Displays
  • courteous behavior to customers, guests, and co-worker. Must smile, make eye contact, and use AIDET
  • principles when interfacing with patients.
  • 3.
  • Listens to
  • constructive criticism in a productive manner. Responds to supervisor's requests for
  • information and assistance in a courteous manner and within required
  • timeframe.
  • DEPENDABILITY
  • / INITIATIVE
  • 1 . Ability
  • to work independently and/or as part of the team as the situation dictates.
  • 2 . Willing
  • to adjust schedule in case of workload fluctuations. In light work situations, consults
  • supervisor
  • for additional assignments or independently seeks additional tasks.
  • 3. Exhibits willingness to master new work
  • routines and methods.
  • 4. Abides by facility
  • attendance policy.
  • EDUCATION
  • / DEVELOPMENT
  • 1.
  • Learns new
  • procedures and protocols. Demonstrates
  • a thorough knowledge and understanding of
  • policies and procedures in performing job
  • duties. Reports to supervisor any
  • suggestions for positive change or recommendations to department policies and
  • procedures.
  • 2. Completes annual mandatory In-Service
  • requirements and Healthstream trainings. Attends
  • department
  • meetings (reviews and signs minutes when unable to attend).
  • 4. Assumes responsibility for continued
  • professional development.
  • Licenses, Certifications, &
  • Training:
  • ·
  • Food
  • Handlers or Serv Safe Certificate within 90 days of hire
  • Preferred
  • Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
  • Knowledge of PATIENT SAFETY science principles,
  • theory, methods, standards and regulatory requirements and experience with
  • patient safety analysis techniques (methods), including root cause analysis,
  • cause and effect analysis, and failure mode and effect analysis.
  • Required
  • Knowledge of HACCP
  • guidelines when assembling and distributing food supplies to ensure
  • quality and safety of food supply.
  • Required
  • Ability to USE DATABASE SOFTWARE to enter,
  • retrieve, sort, and filter information as necessary for reporting or report
  • generation
  • Preferred

Apply Now

Ready to start your next adventure as a Food & Nutrition Dietary Aide? Let's get you moving forward!

Send your resume to [email protected] or call us at 408-441-9200 today.

Why UHCS

Weekly or bi-weekly pay, medical/dental/vision, a SIMPLE IRA with employer contribution, tests paid on qualifying assignments with payroll deduction available, and one recruiter who stays with you for the whole assignment — reachable after hours. Every placement is credentialed to Joint Commission standards, so your packet is accepted the first time.