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Diet Technician jobs in Missouri

Diet Technician provides assistance in all food service functions to ensure compliance with patients' prescribed nutrition plans. Screens and identifies patients with nutritional risk using scoring guidelines, and initiates referrals for dietetic assessment. Being a Diet Technician institutes basic nutrition plans including individualized menu plans. Accurately edits patients' menu selections according to nutrition standards to ensure patients receive food that is compliant with diet orders. Additionally, Diet Technician monitors intake and acceptance of required meals and supplements. Tracks patients' food intake and calorie count results. Requires an associate degree. Typically requires Dietetic Technician - Registered (DTR). Typically reports to a dietitian. The Diet Technician works under moderate supervision. Gaining or has attained full proficiency in a specific area of discipline. To be a Diet Technician typically requires 1-3 years of related experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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Diet Clerk
  • Phelps Health
  • Rolla, MO FULL_TIME
  • General Summary

    • The Diet Clerk is responsible for ensuring that all patients receive timely screenings, appropriate diet information, provides selective menus for patient meal choices, based on their prescribed diet order, completes appropriate paper work to ensure that patients receive the correct food items and check the patient tray line at meal periods for tray accuracy.

    Essential Duties And Responsibilities

    • Communicates problems incurred with patient’s diets, appropriateness of meal selections, patient’s meal concerns, patient’s likes and dislikes that may affect their food and beverage intake, or the nutritional adequacy of the meal or diet that the patient is receiving.
    • Performs administrative tasks pertaining to the maintaining of the patient menus, food selections, snacks, and diet orders for accuracy.
    • Communicates with patient or nursing any questions regarding patient’s understanding of diet or diet modifications.
    • Takes temperatures of food items prior to meal service. Checks meal tray accuracy of diet order to ensure quality.
    • Prepares and delivers snacks for patients.

    Job Qualifications

    • Education
      • High school education or equivalent preferred; an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
    • Work Experience
      • Six months experience in Healthcare Food Services required.
    • Certification/License
      • Not Applicable
    Mental/Physical Requirements

    • Considerable mental concentration required for repetitive duties for long periods of time. Long periods of standing and walking. Ability to read and write. Ability to learn and understand procedures related to patient feeding and diet modifications for patients. Ability to lift minimum of 30 lbs at a time during shift.

    Working Conditions

    • Shares office and desk space with other Food Service Personnel. Office area may be warm due to small working area and crowded conditions. May encounter unpleasant conditions at times in patient care areas. Potential exposure to infectious diseases and bodily fluids. Will experience heat and noise from the kitchen when working on patient tray line. Will experience wet floors and exposure to hot steam, water, chemicals, glass breakage and sharp knives when in food production areas. May experience noise in crowded work conditions, in patient rooms, and nursing stations.
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CLERK, DIET
  • MU Health Care
  • Columbia, MO FULL_TIME
  • CLERK, DIET24001473 Job: Administrative/Clerical/Professional Primary Location: Columbia Schedule: Full-time Shift: Day Job Unposting Date: Ongoing Description MU Healthcare is looking for a passionat...
  • 10 Days Ago
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Field service technician
  • Field Service-Controls Technician
  • Riverside, MO FULL_TIME
  • Title Field Service-Controls Technician About the Organization Cogent is a growing, midwest company that provides creative and innovative fluid processing solutions. Our companies include Automatic En...
  • 10 Days Ago
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Diet Clerk - Dietary
  • Prime Healthcare Services
  • Springs, MO FULL_TIME
  • Location US-MO-Blue Springs ID 2024-163944 Category Service Position Type Full Time Shift Variable Job Type Non-Exempt OverviewJoin an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our co...
  • 2 Days Ago
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Diet Aide 2
  • Phelps Health
  • Rolla, MO FULL_TIME
  • General SummaryThe Diet Aide 2 is responsible for cashiering duties, serving of food to cafeteria and grill customers in a polite and courteous manner, stocking of supplies, keeping cafeteria and gril...
  • 5 Days Ago
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Manual machinist
  • Manual Machinist / Service Technician
  • Riverside, MO FULL_TIME
  • Title Manual Machinist / Service Technician About the Organization Cogent is a growing, midwest company that provides creative and innovative fluid processing solutions. Our companies include Automati...
  • 11 Days Ago
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Diet Technician
  • Compass Group
  • Bronx, NY
  • Salary: $22-$24/hourOther Forms of Compensation: Driven by our passion in the pursuit of hospitality and culinary excell...
  • 6/11/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Diet Technician
  • Encompass Health Corp.
  • Albuquerque, NM
  • DIET TECHNICIAN - PRN - HOSPITAL SETTING The Diet Technician, Registered conducts screenings and gathers information for...
  • 6/10/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Diet Technician Assistant
  • Christian Health Care Center
  • Wyckoff, NJ
  • JOB SUMMARY: About Christian Health: We have had the privilege of caring for those in need for more than a century. Foun...
  • 6/10/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Dietetic Technician
  • Central Vermont Medical Center
  • Montpelier, VT
  • Building Name: CVMC - Central Vermont Medical Center Location Address: 130 Fisher Road, Berlin Vermont Regular Departmen...
  • 6/10/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Dietetic Technician
  • Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • About Children's Minnesota Children's Minnesota is one of the largest pediatric health systems in the United States and ...
  • 6/9/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Dietetic Technician
  • St. Catherine of Siena
  • Roslyn, NY
  • Overview Catholic Health is an integrated system encompassing some of the region's finest health and human services agen...
  • 6/9/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Diet Technician
  • Cambridge Eating Disorder Center
  • Cambridge, MA
  • Job Description Job Description Job Title: Diet Technician Reports to: Director of Food Services Required Qualifications...
  • 6/7/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Dietetic Technician
  • Equiliem Healthcare
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Job Description Job Description Client Summary: Our Client has been the birthplace for countless breakthroughs and drama...
  • 6/7/2024 12:00:00 AM
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About Missouri

Missouri is landlocked and borders eight different states as does its neighbor, Tennessee. No state in the U.S. touches more than eight. Missouri is bounded by Iowa on the north; by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee across the Mississippi River on the east; on the south by Arkansas; and by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (the last across the Missouri River) on the west. Whereas the northern and southern boundaries are straight lines, the Missouri Bootheel protrudes southerly into Arkansas. The two largest rivers are the Mississippi (which defines the eastern boundary of the state) and the Misso...
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Income Estimation for Diet Technician jobs
$37,002 to $49,081

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What does a Diet Technician do?

Diet Technician in Danbury, CT
Diet Technicians work under the supervision of dietitians and are in charge for creating and delivering nutritional programs.
January 16, 2020
Diet Technician in Lansing, MI
Strong working knowledge of special diets in order to write therapeutic patient menus under the supervision of the Registered Clinical Dietitian.
February 04, 2020
Diet Technician in Long Beach, CA
The Food Service Worker- Diet Technician works in the Nutrition & Food Service (N&FS) at the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System.
December 22, 2019