What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Dietary Manager position at WhiteStone: A Masonic & Eastern Star Community?
The Health Center Dietary Manager is responsible for overseeing Health Center food service program and providing the level of supervision necessary to ensure that courteous and efficient service is delivered as well as high quality and nutritious foods.
Principle Duties
Essential Job Duties:
diets are ordered.
WhiteStone fully embraces a culture of hospitality. To that end, we include the following hospitality promises as a guide for our interpersonal interactions with residents, co-workers, and guests:
WhiteStone employees are expected to promote a healthy community culture for all residents and employees. This is a whole-person approach to health and wellness which includes eight dimensions of wellness: Emotional, Environmental, Health Services, Intellectual, Physical, Social, Spiritual and Vocational. Through these efforts we can ensure and exceed residents’ wellness needs relating to their mind, body and soul, which may also have a positive effect on the employees, as a result.
Qualifications
Light to moderate physical effort 90% of the time. Must be able to stand and walk up to 70% of the time. Must be able to stoop, bend, and stretch frequently; must be able to lift up to 30 pounds infrequently; must be able to see, hear and speak.
Employment Type: Full Time
Years Experience: 3 - 5 years
Salary: $60,000 - $65,000 Annual
Bonus/Commission: No
Principle Duties
Essential Job Duties:
- Assists in the planning, scheduling and supervising of Health Center dietary personnel.
- Assists in developing all menus for Health Center residents assessing preferences and nutritional needs. Assists in assuring staff education is provided to dietary personnel in accordance with the staff education plan plus provides on the job training for Health Center dietary personnel.
- Assists in developing work assignments for all dietary personnel assigning specific jobs and spot checking work to ensure standards are met.
- Assures that each resident’s nutritional adequacy is met by utilizing the assurance of Nutritional Adequacy Policy.
- Maintains pertinent and appropriate records, reports, schedules and studies as required by local, state and federal regulations and otherwise requested.
- Initiates and supervises the completion of hands-on intakes as assigned.
- Maintains individual diet information by transcribing information from the dietitian’s weekly notes to the kardex, menu and nourishment list when indicated.
- Attends Care Plan Meeting.
- Interviews new admissions and documents food preferences on the approved form.
- Contacts the dietitian between scheduled visits if unplanned or special therapeutic
diets are ordered.
- Assures that meal tallies are accurate on a daily basis.
- Assists in providing on-the-job training for Health Center dining room personnel.
- Participates in cost control measures.
- Attends in-service training and education sessions as assigned.
- Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
WhiteStone fully embraces a culture of hospitality. To that end, we include the following hospitality promises as a guide for our interpersonal interactions with residents, co-workers, and guests:
- We greet residents, employees and guests warmly, by name and with a smile.
- We treat everyone with courteous respect.
- We strive to anticipate resident, employee and guest needs and act accordingly.
- We listen and respond enthusiastically in a timely manner.
- We hold ourselves and one another accountable.
- We embrace and value our differences.
- We make residents, employees and guests feel important.
- We ask “Is there anything else I can do for you?”
- We maintain high levels of professionalism, both in conduct and appearance, at all times.
- We pay attention to details.
WhiteStone employees are expected to promote a healthy community culture for all residents and employees. This is a whole-person approach to health and wellness which includes eight dimensions of wellness: Emotional, Environmental, Health Services, Intellectual, Physical, Social, Spiritual and Vocational. Through these efforts we can ensure and exceed residents’ wellness needs relating to their mind, body and soul, which may also have a positive effect on the employees, as a result.
Qualifications
- High School diploma/GED required.
- A minimum of two years supervisory experience in food service operations of a health care setting.
- Hold a C.D.M. certification in healthcare.
- Certified in safety and sanitation in regards to food service.
- Prefer experience in a long-term health care environment.
- Experience with performing clinical assessments on residents, meeting with Care Plan Team, performing input on MDS. Ability to communicate with, understand, empathize with, work with and be tolerant of residents, families, visitors, peers, supervisors, and subordinates.
- Ability to interpret and explain menus, refer or answer questions, coordinate meal service process and understand requests.
Light to moderate physical effort 90% of the time. Must be able to stand and walk up to 70% of the time. Must be able to stoop, bend, and stretch frequently; must be able to lift up to 30 pounds infrequently; must be able to see, hear and speak.
Employment Type: Full Time
Years Experience: 3 - 5 years
Salary: $60,000 - $65,000 Annual
Bonus/Commission: No
Salary : $60,000 - $65,000
