
Dietetic Assistant (Per Diem)
Chapel Hill, NCPer Diem$18–24.66/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Dietetic Assistant supports Nutrition and Food Services by helping prepare and deliver patient meals and nutrition items, serving as a liaison for patient satisfaction, and assisting with clean work areas. The role includes trayline duties, patient communication, and adherence to sanitation, safety, health, and privacy standards. It is an onsite, per-diem position at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill.
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Full job description
Description
Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.
Dietetic Assistant – Trayline and Patient Meal Delivery
Summary
This position works to ensure that patients receive accurate, efficient, and satisfactory delivery of meals and other nutrition. Will be direct liaison, in regards to patient satisfaction, in the Nutrition and Food Services department. This position also assists higher-level personnel in preparing and maintaining a clean work area. Work is routinely reviewed for adherence to sanitary standards and completion of assignments.
Responsibilities
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Delivers food trays, nourishments, and snack to patients in a timely manner.
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Assists with tray preparation during meal service hours.
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Adheres to all safety, sanitation, health, and privacy standards required by the department.
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Carries items from storeroom and coolers to workstations, and transfers food and equipment items to appropriate storage areas.
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Communicates with patients regarding meal tickets, accuracy, and other relevant information
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Maintains compliance with JCAHO, State Health Department, and OSHA regarding on-going required job training and health standards.
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Uses proper protocol, including wearing required PPE and hand sanitation, to prevent contamination.
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Maintains clean work areas and equipment utilized during shift.
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Aids in dirty tray removal and retrieval, as needed.
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Performs quality assurance activities, such as monitoring satisfaction surveys.
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Maintains a professional demeanor when interacting with all patients, visitors, and staff.
Preferences:
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Current ServSafe certification
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Previous experience in similar roles or in a hospital setting
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Please also note that this position requires approximately 95% of the workday to be spent walking and moving throughout the facility, so prefer candidates that are prepared for a highly active role and able to meet the physical demands of the position.
Other Information
Education Requirements:
- None required as long as all other position qualifications are met.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
- No licensure or certification required.
Professional Experience Requirements:
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One (1) year of experience with food service or customer service experience OR hospital clinical dietetics
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If Bachelor's degree, no experience is required.
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If Associate's degree, six (6) months of experience with food service or customer service experience OR hospital clinical dietetics
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
Job Details
Legal Employer: STATE
Entity: UNC Medical Center
Organization Unit: NFS Patient Services
Work Type: Per Diem
Standard Hours Per Week: 0.33
Salary Range: $18.00 - $24.66 per hour (Hiring Range)
Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Evening Job
Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,821 open Food Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$18–24.66/hr
- North Carolina median$17–20/hr38 hourly ranges
- US median$17–19/hr1,934 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $21.33/hr, is 11% above the North Carolina median midpoint ($19/hr) — in the middle half of Food Service hourly ranges in North Carolina.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 122 open Food Service jobs in North Carolina and 3,821 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- Cracker Barrel25 open
- Chipotle Mexican Grill12 open
- Compass Group, North America12 open
- Experience
- Food Service postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (538 postings).
- Education
- 21 of the 3,821 open Food Service jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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