ARAMARK is one of America´s largest employers of dietitians, and is currently the only professional services company to become an American Dietetic Association (ADA) Partner.
ARAMARK Corporation is a world leader in providing award-winning food and facilities management services to health care institutions, universities and schools districts, stadiums and arenas, international and domestic corporations, as well as providing uniform and career apparel. Headquartered in Philadelphia, ARAMARK has approximately 200,000 employees serving clients in 19 countries. We are an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer providing a Drug Free Workplace, encouraging diversity. To see our diversity initiatives, please visit www.aramark.com ARAMARK is one of the largest private employers of dietitians across the country, and has recently become a partner of the American Dietetic Association, the nation´s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. In early April 2007, ARAMARK announced a partnership with the American Dietetic Association (ADA), the nation´s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. The ADA partnership has helped ARAMARK explore new ways to help consumers make healthy dining decisions away from home, while providing dietitians with a structure to expose the many career opportunities within the company. ARAMARK is the only professional services company to become an ADA partner, distinguishing it to dietitians, employees, clients, and customers as a company at the forefront of Health and Wellness. We have an immediate opening for an Assistant Director of Patient Services in a 369 bed community hospital in Durham, NC. As the Assistant Director of Patient Services for ARAMARK Healthcare, you will:- Manage the client and ARAMARK nutrition standards, as well as follows established guidelines for JC and all other regulatory organizations. - Direct the planning of all aspects of clinical dietetics and the overall oversight of 5.5 dietitians, patient menu technicians and the patient tray line as appropriate. - Maintain and develop collaborative relationship with nursing and Physicians, and all hospital staff. - Oversee the management of the Clinical Nutrition process and other projects.- Collaborate with the management team and work closely with the Food Service Director. - Coordinate with the patient services team and ensure all standards of care are being followed and patient satisfaction targets are being met. Qualifications: Position Requirements:- Must be a Registered Dietitian with the American Dietetic Association´s CDR and Licensed in the state of North Carolina.- Bachelors Degree or Masters Degree in dietetics, food science, nutrition, food service management, institutional management, or field relevant to function managed.- Minimum 3 years progressive and domestic clinical and food service management experience.- Ability to be flexible, multi-task, detailed and timely.- Must be completely customer and resident focused.- Excellent management, leadership, and communication skills (written and verbal) are essential.- Must be flexible to travel up to 5% of the time and work weekends as needed. Job: Nutrition/DieteticsPrimary Location: US-NC-DurhamOrganization: Healthcare