What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Dietary Manager position at Lake Port Square?
We are seeking a Certified Dietary Manager to join our team. Your role will be to lead all hospitality functions and staff in the Skilled Nursing dining areas. Daily duties will include assisting residents with menu selections, dining room meal service, tray assembly, tray delivery and special requests and needs. As a member of the Hospitality department, you will work with Dietary Aides, Cooks, Executive Chef, and Dietitian, and report to our Director of Dining Services.
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What You Will Do:
- Take an active role in the hiring, training, and development of all dietary aides.
- Assist in ensuring staff education is provided to dietary staff and provides on-the-job training
- Provide supervision of dietary staff including successful execution of service, staffing, scheduling, orientation, and performance management
- Develop work assignments for all Health Center dietary staff assigning specific jobs
- Complete weekly audits for Quality Assurance Measures
- Meet New Residents within 24 hours of first shift worked, after new admission to discuss meal service and complete new resident admission dietary questionnaire
- Contact the Dietician if unplanned or special therapeutic diets are ordered.
- Ensure Health Center Residents weekly menu selections are complete, meal tallies are accurate daily
- Keep net-Impact up to date with Health Center resident admissions and discharges including but not limited to diet changes, allergies, preferences, adaptive equipment, supplements, room changes
- Provide insight for Residents to the Executive Chef, assessing preferences are met with weekly rotating menus
What You Will Bring:
Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years working experience of dietary supervision in a skilled nursing or other medical facility, relevant field experience and the following credentials/skills:
- High School or GED
- CDM certification
- Post-Secondary Courses in nutrition or related field
- Communication skills
- Teamwork
- Strong work ethic
- Empathy and Compassion
- Passion and Leadership skills
- Willingness to learn
- Active listening skills
- Computer skills
- Maintain SERV Safe Certification or equivalent
- Work well under pressure
- Knowledge of infection control, OHSA, safety regulations
Hospitality Focus: We fully embrace 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.
Wellness Focus :
Our employees are expected to promote a healthy agency 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.
What We Offer:
- Benefits for full and part time staff, including health, dental, vision, 401k and more!
- Fun, caring, inclusive work environment!
If you're an enthusiastic, compassionate, senior care professional who is passionate about hospitality and senior engagement- please apply, we'd love to get to know you!
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