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Our Mission is to extend the healing ministry of Christ.

At Florida Hospital our primary customers are patients and families. Our partners are physicians and our team members are all employees of Florida Hospital.

Company Overview

Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel is now open with 80 inpatient beds, expanding to a capacity of 288. The hospital has the very latest technology and ancillary health care services to provide excellent quality of care to the people of Wesley Chapel and surrounding communities. Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel is a Christian, not-for-profit institution and part of the Adventist Health System, the largest not-for-profit Protestant health care system in the United States.

Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel has opened the Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel Health & Wellness Center. This new facility is membership focused along with multiple health and fitness amenities. Some of these amenities will include personal training, specialized programming, massage therapy services, caf, logo shop and child sitting services. Additionally, the outpatient physical therapy is now open. Some of the health and fitness service offerings will include an aquatics center, 80 pieces of cardiovascular training equipment, over 9,000 pounds of free weights and weight resistance training equipment, full-service locker rooms, multiple group exercise studios with cycling and mind/body rooms.

Join Our Team

Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel is an outstanding place to build your healthcare career. Whether you're in Allied Health and Research, Support Services, Professional Services or Nursing and Clinical Support, you will learn and grow in our supportive environment while impacting the health of patients. When you join Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel you'll join a hospital and health system that is passionate about one goal --- providing outstanding care.

General Summary

Evaluates patient-meal selection, tray completion, tray delivery, and tray retrieval process on a daily basis.

Responsive to patient's needs at all times. Resolves patient concerns or complaints immediately and/or reports needed assistance to supervisor as appropriate.

Complies with dietary restrictions on special, modified diets to ensure optimal food preferences are met within guidelines of diet order limitations.

Communicates any patient related problems/concerns to appropriate personnel, in a timely manner following departmental procedures.

Available to perform daily activities in patient services.

Updates and communicates job-flow changes of patient services positions as applicable.

Assists with patient food services needs, such as modified diet recipe requirements, patient services production needs, portion control and timeliness in which food is delivery to workstation or trayline.

Evaluates, mentors, and disciplines patient services employees as applicable and according to departmental policy.

Monitoring of patients who are NPO, on liquid diets or have calorie counts ordered.

Interacts with Nursing to ensure patients' diet prescriptions are accurate and patient's food needs are met.

Exhibits pleasant and cheerful demeanor and maintains a helpful attitude towards employees, physicians, patients and visitors.

Visits patients on an assigned nursing unit or area and helps ensure that every patient is visited by a member of the management or professional team at least once during their hospital stay.

Adheres to facility confidentiality and patient's

Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

High school education; or up to two years related ; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other associates of the facility.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

R easoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uncomplicated written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those an associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock and risk of radiation. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

The above statements reflect the general duties and responsibilities necessary to describe the principal functions of the job, as identified, and shall not be considered an exhaustive list of job responsibilities which may be inherent in the job. Responsibilities are subject to change.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel is a Nicotine Free and Equal Opportunity Employer (EEOC).

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