{"id":5847,"date":"2024-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/?page_id=5847"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:05:36","slug":"dietary-unit-aide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/dietary-unit-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Dietary Unit Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"

UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
Representative group<\/th>\nJob codes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
WFSE Campuswide<\/td>\n18570 (NE S WFSE Campuswide)
\n22693 (NE H NI WFSE Campuswide)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WFSE HMC<\/td>\n18680 (NE S WFSE HMC)
\n22749 (NE H NI WFSE HMC)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

CLASS SERIES CONCEPT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Provide nutritional services directly to patients and nursing units.<\/p>\n

BASIC FUNCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deliver and pick up meals, nourishments and tube feedings to patients; record patient food intake; act as a liaison between the patient and the department.<\/p>\n

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n

First-level class of series. Under general supervision, provide basic nutritional services to patients such as distribution and pick-up of meals.<\/p>\n

TYPICAL WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deliver meals, nourishments and tube feeding in accordance with patient diet orders; pick up food trays from patients;<\/p>\n

Serve in a guest relations role to patients and visitors; relay patient food requests\/comments to Dietetic Technicians;<\/p>\n

Deliver or relay messages from nursing and other health care staff to the department;<\/p>\n

Record food intake of selected patients;<\/p>\n

Deliver and pick up patient food preference sheets;<\/p>\n

May direct the work of student trainees and staff;<\/p>\n

May assist in orienting and training new staff; and<\/p>\n

Perform other duties as assigned.<\/p>\n

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Possession of, or eligible to obtain a Washington State Food Worker Card within two weeks of employment, and one year of food service experience in a health care setting.<\/p>\n

Equivalent education and\/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and\/or registration.<\/p>\n

CLASSIFICATION HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n

03\/21\/1988: New Class
\n07\/02\/1990: Revise MQ
\n06\/01\/2005: CSR Class Conversion
\n08\/01\/2018: Revise MQ; update job code with Workday code<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP Representative group Job codes WFSE Campuswide 18570 (NE S WFSE Campuswide) 22693 (NE H NI WFSE Campuswide) WFSE HMC 18680 (NE S WFSE HMC) 22749 (NE H NI WFSE HMC) CLASS SERIES CONCEPT Provide nutritional services directly to patients and nursing units. BASIC FUNCTION Deliver and pick up meals, nourishments and tube feedings to patients; record patient food intake; act as a liaison between the patient and the department. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS First-level class of series….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5847","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10860,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5847\/revisions\/10860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}