Job Description

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Your Role & Responsibilities will be as follows:
Patient Dietary Care & Communication

• Daily checking of In-patient medical record, meeting patient
• Responsible for providing nutritional diet to patients based on medical advice
• Coordinate with food services for the prescribed diet preparations.
• Generate and provide written communication of patient diets to the food service attendants as per the time schedule.

Performance Indicators Implementation for Service Delivery Standard

• To coordinate with food service manager in establishing procedures for smooth functioning and guiding in preparation of right therapeutic diets.
• In - patient nutritional assessment TAT.
• Nutritional counseling at the time of discharge based on medical advice
• Patient feedback
• To efficiently utilizing the hospital information system to increase the efficiency of the department

Dietary Compliances:

• Everyday monitoring biochemical reports
• Weekly follow up of OPD, IPD, Health checkup
• Monthly/ Half yearly/ Yearly Follow Up

Implementation of Quality Management System:

• Re - certification of ISO 9001: 2008.
• Project planning and execution of NABH Accreditation of NSSH.
• Implementation of quality indicator monitoring system.

Participate in/Convene following unit - level committees as required:

• Daily morning meeting of operations team.
• Monthly Information System.
• Prepare the 'MIS of Diet departments and communicate it to the Management.

Special projects:

• Take initiatives to present nutritional knowledge to masses
• Nutritional training program to other distant centre through Tele - Conferencing for Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) in different illness

Support Services:

• Food services delivery as per standard time schedule ensuring right food to right patient within a defined time and root cause analysis of variations tracked using a TAT tracker.
• Monitoring of food quality through external lab testing.

Skills Required