Clinical Dietetic Aide

**Req ID**:144595**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Eastern** **Zone, **Cape Breton Regional Hospital**
**Department**:NFS Patient Food Services CBR**
**Type of Employment**:Casual** **Casual Relief** **(**3%** **FTE) x **1** **position(s)**
**Status: CUPE** **Admin Professionals** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:Open Until Filled**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Clinical Manager, the Clinical Diet Aide will distribute, collect, accurately prepare and update patient menus. The incumbent will compile information from the menus for food production and tray line patient service and tally production counts. Clinical Diet Aides use the MediTech system. At times, the incumbent will check beltline trays for accuracy with diets. Other job related duties.

**Qualifications**:

- Grade 12
- One (1) year Business or Secretarial Program or a nutrition degree or a student working on their nutrition degree or a degree
- One (1) year clerical experience
- Basic Serv Safe
- Demonstrated knowledge of therapeutic diet menus
- Accurate keyboarding skills with demonstrated knowledge of Windows.
- Demonstrated Mathematical ability
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work with the health care team and maintain good relationships with patients/residents, families and supervisor
- Ability to deal with flexible workload and frequent interruptions
- Demonstrated physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
- Good attendance and work record.

**Hours of Work**:
**Salary Information**:
$ - $ hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

As per the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Protocol in High-Risk Settings, Nova Scotia Health requires all team members to be fully vaccinated by November 30th, 2021.

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