Certified Dietary Manager

Humphreys County Care and Rehab -

TITLE : Dietary Manager

POSITION GOAL : This position must provide management for the Dietary Department, ensuraing quality food.  The Dietary Manager will direct and assist the preparation and serving of regular meals and therapeutic diets, order food and supplies and maintain area and equipment in sanitary condition, and assure the smooth operation with other nursing home departments.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Recruit, interview, hire, train, coach, evaluate, reward, discipline, and when necessary, terminate employees.
• Develop work schedules to ensure adequate staff to cover each shift.
• Create and monitor budgets for a cost-effective program.
• Use forecasts, food waste records, inventory and equipment records to plan the purchase of food, supplies and equipment.
• Work cooperatively with clients, facility staff, physicians, consultants, vendors and other service providers.
• Specify standards and procedures for preparing food.
• Participate in menu planning, including responding to resident preferences, substitution lists, therpeutic diets, and industry trends.
• Process new diet orders and diet changes; keep diet cards updated.
• Complete the assigned MDS section according to required timeline.
• Determine client diet needs and develop appropriate dietary plans in cooperation with RD and in compliance with physicians' orders.
• Review plan of care related to nutritional status; document concerns that can be resolved, improved, or addressed to improve client's nutritional status and eating function.
• Review, revise and implement, in cooperation with the IDT, the client's nutrition assessment and plan of care.
• Handles all problems and employees in a professional, consistent and fair manner.
• Ensures incidents are completed before end of shift correctly with all information on checklist.
• Provides supervision to the dietary staff and serves as a resource for resident-centered care.
• Must have Certified Dietary Manager credentials / certification

Humphreys County Care and Rehab is dedicated to providing the best possible care of the sick and elderly.  We will comply in every respect with TItle VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975.  Humphreys County Care and Rehab will not discriminate on the basis or race, color, age, handicap, religion or national origin in any activity carried on by the faciity affecting the care and treatment of the patients or in the hiring of staff to provide services.  Humphreys County Care and Rehab will not discriminate toward any applicant for admission or employment regardless of source of payment.  Humphreys County Care and Rehab is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We adhere to all regulations pertaining to the Americans with Disability Act.