Job Information
Acadia Healthcare Dietary Technician in Lemont, Illinois
Description
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Ensure patients have menu choices and assist with appropriate menu selections.
Ensure Food Services receive any special nutritional needs of individual patients.
Monitor compliance with nutrition recommendations.
Implement nutritional care according to the age, gender, cultural, spiritual, medical and psychosocial needs/requirements of the patient.
Monitor weight, height, BMI and development for each age group as indicated.
Participate in discharge planning process related to nutritional needs of the individual.
Document nutritional assessments, ongoing documentation of nutritional needs as required.
OTHER FUNCTIONS:
Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
Associates Degree or pending Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or graduate of an accredited dietetic technician program. 1-2 years’ experience in a mental health care setting preferred.
LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:
First Aid, CPR, de-escalation and restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility)
Qualifications
Education
Required
Bachelors or better
Associates or better
Experience
Preferred
- 2 years: 1-2 years’ experience in a mental health care setting preferred.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)