**Job Description:** Performs a variety of tasks related to the preparation and delivery of human milk, pasteurized donor human milk, and infant/pediatric formulas and transfer of patient feeding order information. Technicians will greet and interact with internal and external IFPR customers. Technicians must adhere to all food safety/sanitation regulation and standards established by the hospital and regulatory agencies. The technician is responsible for the safe and effective operation of equipment needed to prepare infant/pediatric feedings and maintain sanitation in the preparation room. Processes human milk, pasteurized donor human milk, and formula orders and maintain temperature records. Performs required quality assurance monitoring activities. **Position Details** + Department: Mothers Milk Center + Work Schedule: PRN, on call or as needed + Shift: Starting as early as 7:30am, closing as late as 9pm + Required: Weekend and holiday coverage rotations **Minimum Requirements** + **Food Handlers Permit** + **High school diploma or General Education Development (GED).** + **One-year experience working with a hospital culinary program, diet office, or in a medical field.** + Preferred: One-year relevant job experience exercising problem-solving skills. + Demonstrated proficient math skills with focus on attention to detail and accuracy of output. + Basic computer operation, keyboard proficiency and demonstrated ability to utilize common computer software applications to perform work processes. + Effective oral and written communication skills. **Job Essentials** + Maintains friendly and helpful attitude toward customers (internal and external) and coworkers. + Prepares, portions, and delivers patient feedings per feeding order, recipes, or registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) instruction. + Maintains patient feeding orders via computer system and accurately prepares feeding orders that are not available as a ready-to-feed formula. + Transcribes feeding order information to prepare feeding labels. + Reports discrepancies in feeding orders to manager or RDN. + Communicates with manager, patient care areas, and RDNs regarding issues or problems with feeding orders, human milk/pasteurized donor human milk/formula storage, or administration of feedings. + Communicates with parents who are dropping off, storing, and/or picking up expressed human milk to ensure proper labeling and storing of expressed human milk. + Communicates with parents, nurses, lactation consultants, dietitians, and colleagues to receive and clarify daily diet orders and ensures accurate preparation and labeling of human milk/pasteurized donor human milk feedings. + Completes necessary paperwork for accurate billing and tracking of pasteurized donor human milk and infant formulas. + Complies with daily records and updates computerized patient profiles regarding infant/pediatric feeding orders, including allergy information. + Follow processes, as established, for quality assurance monitors. + Sets up assigned workstation. + Unpacks, labels, and stores fortifiers, formula, and supplies in their designated storage area; rotates supplies using first-in, first-out (FIFO) method. + Maintains a sanitary and safe environment by following departmental and infection prevention policies; reports unsafe conditions and accidents to manager. + Uses correct technique to measure solids and liquids. + Maintains a clean and orderly workspace, ensuring that department standards are met and that all sanitary activities are conducted in accordance with federal, state, and local health regulations. + Maintains clean equipment and cleans small wares in dishwasher; records dish machine temperatures per procedure. + Removes damaged formula cans and outdated formula stock from inventory and disposes per facility guidelines. + Adheres to Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) guidelines; maintains temperature logs of prepared feedings for quality assurance. + Adheres to uniform policy established in area; no artificial nails are allowed; nails must be kept short, clean and unpolished. + Assist in training other staff in feeding preparation and proper handling techniques as needed. + Attends mandatory meetings and in-service education programs as scheduled by the department and facility. + Treats all information and data with the scope of the position with appropriate confidentiality and security. Complies with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) regulations. + Adheres to all established systems and training programs to provide a safe working environment. + Complies with all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation and other local, state, and federal regulations. + Recognizes and adopts activates appropriate to the specific needs of the patient population and demonstrates knowledge of specific issues directly related to age of the patient population. + Maintains compliance with standards of operation; maintains all records and reports necessary to comply with government and accrediting agency standards, regulation, and codes. + Performs additional duties as assigned. **Physical Requirements:** **Physical Requirement** + Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, recipes, and labels. + Frequent interactions with patient parents and colleagues that require caregiver to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues accurately. + Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to 50 lb. + Remain standing for extended periods of time to perform work. + Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies. + Finger dexterity required. **Location:** Primary Childrens Hospital **Work City:** Salt Lake City **Work State:** Utah **Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 0 The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $18.66 - $25.33 We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged. 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