Administrative Dietetic Technician

Union:  Non-Union Number of vacancies:  1 New or Replacement Position:  Replacement Site: UHN West Park Healthcare Centre Department : Nutrition Services Reports to:  Manager, Nutrition Services Salary Range: $27.56 - $34.45 per hour Hours:  15 hours per week Shifts: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., weekdays and alternating weekends, with additional coverage as required Status: Permanent Part-time Closing Date:  October 23, 2026 Position Summary The Administrative Dietetic Technician is responsible for the accurate, timely, and safe management of patient diet orders, food preferences, allergies, nourishments, and meal service information within the Computrition system. Working collaboratively with Registered Dietitians, Speech-Language Pathologists, Nursing, and Nutrition Services staff, the incumbent ensures therapeutic diets and nutrition care plans are accurately implemented and maintained, supports patient safety and meal service quality, serves as a liaison between clinical teams and Nutrition Services, and provides Computrition system administration, training, and technical support through the effective interpretation and application of patient information and clinical orders. Duties • Enters, updates, verifies, and maintains patient diet orders, food preferences, allergies, nourishments, fluid restrictions, texture modifications, and other meal service information within Computrition. • Processes and prioritizes time-sensitive diet order changes in accordance with established departmental procedures and clinical requirements. • Reviews information documented within the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and other clinical systems to ensure diet orders, nutrition care plans, and meal service requirements are accurately reflected within Computrition. • Interprets therapeutic and special diet orders and ensures their accurate implementation within Computrition. • Reviews and resolves Smart Substitution conflicts and other system-generated exceptions to ensure compliance with prescribed diets and patient safety. • Maintains the accuracy, integrity, and completeness of patient diet information and meal service data within Computrition. • Identifies and monitors patients requiring special dietary interventions to ensure tray tickets, menus, nourishments, and meal selections are accurate and compliant with prescribed diet orders. • Reviews meal selections, menus, nourishments, and tray tickets to ensure compliance with therapeutic diets, allergies, texture modifications, fluid restrictions, and other clinical nutrition requirements. • Collaborates with Registered Dietitians, Speech-Language Pathologists, Nursing, Nutrition Supervisors, Production staff, and other members of the healthcare team to ensure nutrition care plans are accurately implemented and maintained. • Acts as a liaison between clinical units and Nutrition Services regarding diet orders, meal service concerns, patient requests, and nutrition-related issues. • Visits patients, residents, and caregivers as required to obtain food preferences, meal requirements, and other diet-related information and to address concerns related to meal service. • Promotes patient satisfaction by responding to, resolving, or escalating diet and meal service concerns as appropriate. • Maintains, updates, and develops menus within Computrition, including seasonal menus, holiday menus, recipes, nourishments, therapeutic diet extensions, substitutions, and other menu system configurations required to support patient care and meal service operations. • Maintains and updates master menus and ensures menu structures remain accurate, current, and operationally effective. • Develops and implements new menus, menu enhancements, and system configurations as required to support changi