- High School diploma or GED required.
- Skills in oral communication required.    
- Good organization skills and ability to work within pre-defined time frames and deadlines. 
- Ability to remain calm and efficient in the midst of varied activity and stress levels. 
- Ability to work well with others.
- Ability to provide good customer service. 
- Knowledge of clinical nutrition highly desirable.
- Computer skills are highly desirable.    
- Maintain appropriate level of infection control.
- Answers, directs, and initiates calls/pages from the diet office telephone communication system.
- Directs production requests/outside orders/supply requests  to the appropriate department area in a timely manner.
- Maintains adequate office supplies and forms for daily work
- Communicates with the Nursing staff to resolve diet order issues.
- Utilizes computer to print production tallies, department reports and tray line tallies.
- Maintains appropriate diet restrictions while adjusting patient marked menus for modified diets.
- Coordinates nutritional care responsibilities with the licensed staff to provide accurate diets
- Communicates with patient and/or family to discuss and resolve Food and Nutrition issues with a minimum of conflict.
- Assembles all types of patient trays according to diet/menu, established techniques, portion control, and  infection control.
- Appropriately adjusts eal fluids per pre-established guidelines to meet ordered fluid restrictions.
- Assists with data collection for Performance Improvement department studies.