DINING SUPERVISOR

DINING SUPERVISOR

OAKS AT PLEASANT GAP

FULL TIME

COMPETITIVE SALARY PLUS OTHER GREAT BENEFITS

The Oaks at Pleasant Gap, a personal care and independent living community, is actively seeking candidates for a Dining Supervisor. This position will coordinate, plan, and organize operation of the Dietary Department and prepare food to ensure that quality nutritional services are provided daily to our residents and the department is maintained in a clean, safe, and sanitary manner. This position will be 90% cooking and meal preparation and 10% administrative tasks to support the department.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate dietary services and activities with other related departments.
• Develop and maintain written dietary policies and procedures.
• Interpret the departments policies and procedures to team members, residents, visitors, government agencies, etc., as necessary.
• Perform administrative duties such as completing necessary forms, reports, evaluations, studies, etc.
• Review the departments policies, procedure manuals, job descriptions, etc., at least annually for revisions, and make recommendations to the Administrator.
• Develop and maintain a file of tested standard recipes.
• Make written and oral reports/recommendations to the Administrator as necessary/required concerning the operation of the dietary department.
• Inspect food storage rooms, utility/janitorial closets, etc., to assure they meet all required regulatory guidelines and supply control.
• Review and assist in developing a plan of correction for dietary service deficiencies noted during survey inspections and provide a written copy of such to the Administrator.
• Process diet changes and new diets as received from nursing services.
• Develop, implement and maintain ongoing continuous quality improvement program for the dietary department.
• Participate in surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies.
• Interview residents or family members, as necessary, to obtain diet history, maintaining an adequate liaison with families and residents as necessary.
• Assure that dietary progress notes charted are informative and descriptive of the services provided and of the residents response to the service.
• Assure that menus are maintained and filed in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Visit residents periodically to evaluate the quality of meals served, likes and dislikes, etc., and maintain records of residents food likes and dislikes.
• Assist in planning normal and special diet menus as prescribed by the attending physician as well as diet plans for individual residents.
• Review therapeutic and regular diet plans/menus to assure they are in compliance with physicians orders.
• Assist in establishing a food service production line, etc., to assure that meals are prepared on time.
• Serve on, participate in, and attend various committees of the facility.
• Provide written and/or oral reports of the dietary service programs and activities as required or as may be directed by such committee(s) and evaluate and implement recommendations from established committees as they may pertain to dietary services.
• Meet with dietary personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, solicit advice from interdepartmental supervisors concerning the operation of the dietary department, assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the methods of improvement of services.
• Insofar as practical, encourage residents to participate in the development and review of his/her plan of care.
• Ensure that all dietary personnel are aware of the care plan and use them in planning daily dietary services for the resident.
• Review nurses notes to determine if the care plan is being followed.
• Develop and maintain a good rapport with all services involved with the care plan to ensure that a team effort is achieved in developing a comprehensive plan of care.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of an Associates degree preferred; will consider applicable work experience.
• Minimum of one year of related experience.
• Ability to push, pull, lift or move a minimum of 50 lbs.

Benefits include:

• Competitive Salary
• Choice Benefits Program options include:
  • Health Insurance (full time)
  • Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance and ADD
• Generous paid time off program (full and part-time team members)
• Seven paid holidays per year (full time)
• 401k with Roth Option
• Paid lunch or dinner period (work 7.5 hours, get paid for 8 hours)
• Discounted child day care program where available
• Tuition reimbursement
• Continuing Education

Visit our website at www.alsm.org, contact our Human Resources department today at 1-814-696-4571 for more information on ALSM and this great opportunity or stop by

EOE

Estimated hourly rate or annual salary information is provided by really and is based on regional averages. It is not reflective of Allegheny Lutheran Social Ministries' (ALSM) hourly rate or annual salary ranges. Please call the number listed on the job posting for additional information on ALSM's compensation package regarding this position.