Diet Office Clerk U

You Belong Here.

At MultiCare, we strive to offer a true sense of belonging for all our employees. Across our health care network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers, opportunities for growth, safe workplaces, and flexible schedules. We are connected by our mission - partnering and healing for a healthy future - and dedicated to the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

FTE: 0, Shift: Variable, Schedule: variable

Position Summary

The Diet Clerk is an exciting opportunity providing nutritional care to patients in accordance with the values, objectives and policies at MultiCare. In this role, you will promote nutritional care through correction and modification of menus, diet order sheets and effective departmental communications.

Responsibilities

• You will prepare and deliver diet information to tray assembly, production, and delivery personnel
• You will update all diet information for patient rooms as received from nursing units
• You will assist the patient to make menu decisions that reflect a healthy well-balanced diet within the parameters of the patients’ dietary prescription

Requirements

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Current Washington State Food Handlers Card
• Excellent written, and verbal communication skills
• The ability to work in a team environment
• Maintain professional demeanor at all times including but not limited to the phone and diet office
• A high level of attention to detail and an ability to work well under pressure to meet deadlines
• Strong understanding of therapeutic diets
• Strong working knowledge of computers and computer programs
• Basic understanding of office equipment and procedures
• Provide a high level of customer service while assisting the patient

Our Values

As a MultiCare employee, we'll rely on you to reflect our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration, Kindness and Joy. Our values serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.

Why MultiCare?

• Belonging: We work to create a true sense of belonging for all our caregivers
• Mission-driven: We are dedicated to our mission of partnering for healing and a healthy future and the patients and communities we serve
• Market leadership: Washington state's largest community-based, locally governed health system
• Employee-centric: Named Forbes “America’s Best Employers by State” in 2023
• Technology: "Most Wired" health care system 15 years in a row
• Leading research: MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation, 40 years of ground-breaking, clinical and health services research in our communities
• Lifestyle: Live and work in the Pacific Northwest - offering breathtaking water, mountains and forest at every turn.

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $18.12 - $26.86 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.