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.