Room Service Coordinator PRN

Division:Eskenazi Health  

Sub-Division: Hospital  

Req ID:  23710 

Schedule: PRN/Per Diem 

Shift: Any 

Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services at the 333-bed hospital and outpatient facilities both on and off of the Eskenazi Health downtown campus including at a network of Eskenazi Health Center sites located throughout Indianapolis.

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

Job Role Summary

The Room Service Coordinator PRN is responsible for maintaining electronic diet orders, supplements, tube feeds, and nourishments per physician’s orders, as well as communicating patient needs with other medical practitioners. This position is responsible for essential tasks associated with patient meal service by assisting patients and guests with meal selections via centralized call center and/or at bedside.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Embodies excellent customer service skills, assisting with meal tray assembly, delivery, and sanitation, and serving as a resource to other service personnel throughout the hospital system; works in a team-based environment and communicates daily with patients, visitors, guests, and other personnel within the department and on hospital floors to maintain optimal patient feeding

Offers appropriate menu selections to patients and guests in accordance with physician-prescribed diet restrictions; obtains patient meal orders via electronic menu management system in conjunction with phone system, and routes tickets to kitchen for tray assembly; follows established call center and bedside scripting in order to obtain room service meal orders; advises patients on allowable food items based on prescriptive diet order; applies necessary changes to patient meal orders to meet established meal goals

Follows hospital and departmental procedures related to patient identification and standards of care in order to maintain patient safety; washes hands upon entry and exit of patient rooms, dons’ appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), etc; prepares and verifies enteral formulas, nutritional supplements, and snacks for prescribed patients; utilizes active patient identification per hospital standard of patient name and date of birth

Embodies excellent customer service by upholding a professional attitude as a representative of the department when interacting with guests, visitors, patients, and employees; resolves patient and visitor complaints in a timely and efficient manner; obtains feedback information from patients in order to assess overall service performance; advocates for patient care by communicating directly with Registered Dietitians, Certified Dietary Managers, or other necessary personnel in order to fulfill specialized patient requests; serves in the department command center and follows emergency procedures as directed by the incident commander; communicates with nursing staff regarding patients who need special accommodations such as isolation trays, insulin patients, therapeutic needs, allergies, etc.

Handles food and food service areas in accordance with Indiana State Department of Health, Joint Commission regulations and departmental policy and procedures; follows a daily cleaning schedule of assigned areas in order to maintain cleanliness/sanitation; identifies and safely uses chemical cleaning agents stocked for various pieces of service equipment, table tops, floors, and dish machine; prioritizes hand-hygiene within the kitchen in addition to utilizing disposable gloves when indicated; adheres to departmental hygiene and dress-code standards in order to provide safe food to vulnerable populations; uses the First-In First-Out (FIFO) rotation method when supplying inventory items to patient floors and/or re-stocking supplies for the patient room service line

Maintains productivity standards in order to assure patient meal orders and supplies are obtained, assembled, and delivered in established time frames; obtains meal orders in established time frame in correlation with daily patient census and assigned workload; works closely with menu management software to support all job and department related tasks; logs inventory supplied to various cost centers via requests routed throughout the health care system; updates patient information to maintain accurate records and runs reports related to patient and/or retail feeding; may process payments for non-patient feeding requests

Completes other associated job duties as assigned
 

Job Requirements

•    Associate degree; OR two years of experience in customer service or food and nutrition services in a comparable position
•    Must complete training and competencies as Room Service Associate as a prerequisite for job placement
•    Ability to read, write and understand English required; ability to read, write and understand Spanish preferred 
 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

•    Knowledge of computer functions and ability to work with Microsoft Office and related hospital electronic menu management and health record systems
•    Ability to effectively use electronic menu management system and electronic health record (EHR) programs as related to essential job functions
•    General knowledge of safe food storage, preparation, and handling 
•    Knowledge of therapeutic diet restrictions including mechanical consistencies 
•    Strong customer service skills, including courteous telephone skills and ability to communicate effectively in a professional manner with food service personnel, hospital staff, guests and patients
•    Demonstrates proper use of equipment as related to essential job assignments
•    Ability to follow infection control policies and procedures
•    Ability to follow all Food and Nutrition Services policies and procedures 
 

Accredited by The Joint Commission and named as one of Indiana’s best employers by Forbes magazine for two consecutive years and the top hospital in the state for community benefit by the Lown Institute, Eskenazi Health’s programs have received national recognition while also offering new health care opportunities to the local community. As the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, the city’s primary EMS provider, Eskenazi Health is also home to the first adult Level I trauma center in Indiana, the only verified adult burn center in Indiana and Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, the first community mental health center in Indiana, just to name a few.