Diet Technician
Vancouver, BC, Lions Gate Hospital
Casual position available
$22-25/hr
Weekends
Grow your career with a company that shares your passion! Our Healthcare Division has an exciting new opportunity to join the Sodexo team as our next Diet Technician/Food Service Supervisor!
Sodexo is the global leader in services that improve Quality of Life, an essential factor in individual and organizational performance. Operating in 67 countries, we serve over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of services. We pride ourselves on being committed to the highest standard of Employment Equity and Diversity. By partnering with the Stop Hunger Foundation, we have dedicated ourselves to a corporate responsibility by fighting hunger worldwide. Start your journey with Sodexo, as we continue to grow across Canada!
How You’ll Make an Impact:
- · Responsible for assisting the Clinical staff in the provision of Nutritional Care to inpatients and outpatients using Computrition
- · Responsible for co-coordinating food production, meal preparation and ensuring all staff maintains the standards for quality and service at all times
- · Checks diet acceptance and suitability
- · Performs clerical duties and assists with planning and executing special assignments & follow- up
- · Sets up nourishments and marks menus as per standard guidelines
- · Acts as a liason between Clinical and Food Service areas
- · Conducts computerized nutritional analysis of menus, recipes and food records
- · Promotes and maintains excellent customer relations and effective on-going communication with all levels of staff and clients
- · Provides work direction, supervision and on-going training to all assigned staff in a manner which establishes and maintains high staff morale
- · Assists in scheduling, payroll and performance management as assigned
- · Places orders, maintains accurate and timely inventories and provides daily reports related to cost control
- · Assist with planning and executing special assignments and any required follow-up
- · Conducts weekly sanitation inspections and establishes corrective action
- · Conducts and participates in staff meetings as assigned
- · Supports the Safety Program
- · Other tasks, duties and assignments as directed by the Manager
- · Keep all information confidential
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- · Diploma in Food and Nutrition Management or Degree in Dietetics
- · English proficiency, verbal and written
- · Food Safe Certificate I & II
- · Current vaccinations, TB screening test, Hep A & B, Flu shot
- · Requires knowledge of clinical diets and ability to plan and mark clinical diet menus
- · Current vaccinations
