• Prepare weekly diet menus for review by RD. Monitor need for and complete all diet menu changes.
• Process diet orders into Diet Line, Regular Line, and special nourishment instructions.
• Compose special modified diet slips for diets not listed on the diet menu.
• Maintain patient diet kardexes. Process related data such as movement sheets and renewals.
• Prepare and distribute required production/presentation forms, e.g., Special Order Sheets and tally of special nourishment items.
• Complete data entry into foodservice software system (e.g. Computrition).
• Provides support to the Clinical Dietitians.
• Monitor and help coordinate the provision of modified diets. Includes: Monitor meal service.
• Act as consult to Nutrition Services staff on technical aspects of preparing and serving modified diets and nourishments including Diet Line, Regular Line, and on-unit service.
• Maintain requirements for safety, security, infection control, emergency response, and a non-hostile work environment.

Either I Registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; or II Education: Completion of an Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics approved Dietetic Technician Program, with emphasis in nutritional care or food service management, and Experience: Six months of experience in the practice of dietetics in a health care, school, or residential care setting. (A Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent degree approved by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Vocational Education under the provisions of the California Education Code Division 10, Part 59, Chapter 8, which meets the academic requirements as approved by the Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics may be substituted for the required experience.) (Applicants who have completed 30 course units of the required education will be admitted to the examination but must complete the education and experience requirements in full before they will be considered eligible for appointment.)