Clinical Dietetic Aide

Req ID: 211627

Location: Eastern Zone, Northside General Hospital

Department: NFS Patient Food Services NS

Type of Employment: CasualCasual Relief (3%) x 1

CUPE Admin Professionals Position

Posting Closing Date: 22-Oct-25

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.

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Reporting to the Clinical Manager or delegate, 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 and complete other job-related duties as assigned.

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Grade 12 or equivalent required
• One year clerical experience preferred
• Basic Serv Safe or willingness to obtain within (6) months of hire
• Demonstrated knowledge of therapeutic diet menus
• Accurate keyboarding skills with demonstrated knowledge of computers required
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with the health care team and maintain good relationships with patients/residents, families and supervisors
• Ability to deal with flexible workload and frequent interruptions
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

• Casual Relief
• No Guaranteed Hours

$ $25.86 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.

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.