Milk Technician

It's more than a career, it's a calling.
MO-SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Worker Type:
PRN

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters – every moment, every patient, every community.  At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

In this role, you will provide hands-on support in a fast-paced care environment where every shift makes a direct impact on patients and families.  Your attention to detail, compassion, and ability to work closely with clinical teams will help create a safer, smoother care experience.  If you enjoy interacting with patients and want to grow in a collaborative care setting, this role is perfect for you.

Department:  Milk Laboratory

Schedule: As needed, variable day shift hours

Apply today.  SSM Health – We bring out the incredible in you, every day.

Job Summary:
Prepares, portions, and delivers human milk and formula for patient feedings using aseptic technique per recipe or registered dietitian instruction. Labels and dates all formula/food products per formula room policy.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Communicates with patient treatment team members regarding human milk and formula orders.
- Uses clinical information systems to update patient human milk and formula orders and recipes, print labels, and generate production lists.
- Reports discrepancies in feeding orders to treatment team and/or manager.
- Unpacks, labels, and stores human milk and donor milk. Completes daily donor milk lot number logs.
- Maintains adequate inventory of feeding preparation room supplies and rotates supplies using first-in-first-out (FIFO) method.
- Maintains clean and orderly workspace, ensuring department standards are met, and all sanitary activities are conducted in accordance with federal, state and local health regulations.
- Maintains clean equipment and cleans small wares in three compartment sink or dishwasher.
- Keeps daily sanitation and refrigerator/freezer temperature logs.
- Participates in department and hospital quality improvement activities.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs additional duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

- High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

EXPERIENCE

- No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent reaching and gripping.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Frequent use of smell and taste to distinguish differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognizing particular flavors and/or odors.
- Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, sitting, squatting, twisting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional keyboard use/data entry.
- Occasional driving.

Department:
9094000010 Milk Lab

Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
0

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