What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Dietary Services position at Landmark Recovery Management Company LLC?
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Compensation:
$ Benefits (Vision, Medical, Dental, 401K, Paid Time Off, Family Leave)
We?re looking for people who are excited to join our passionate, authentic, and courageous team. We?re uncompromising in the pursuit of excellence: our core values are more than just words on a page - we live and breathe them. To work at Landmark Recovery is to make a promise to help our patients achieve their wildest dreams. Our mission is to unlock human potential and save a million lives over the next hundred years.
Landmark Recovery operates Residential Treatment Programs for individuals with Substance Abuse Disorder. We seek not merely to restore sobriety, but to transform our patients? worlds from a state of everlasting darkness to vibrant technicolor. We believe that treatment is local, individualized, holistic and relational. We?re currently in several states and are rapidly growing nationally. Learn more at https://landmarkrecovery.com/.
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Summary
The primary objective for the Director of Dietary Services is to set consistent goals for the highest quality service in the Dietary Department at Landmark. The Director of Dietary Services will work in cooperation with the Chief Clinical Officer, Facility Dietary Managers, and Executive Directors toward the goal of achieving economies of scale and cost containment. He or she directs Dietary Department across multiple facilities to prepare and cook family style meals for Landmark, ensuring that kitchens continuously meet all standards of the FDA Food Code. This position provides direction, planning, organization, and supervision of all dietary services to ensure that the department provides efficient, high quality meal service and nutritional care to patients. The position provides strategic direction to ensure the department goals are consistent with organizational objectives.
Responsibilities:
? Design and maintain a rotating 14-day menu to be used across all facilities and update it seasonally
? Build out alternative one-week menus for special diets (i.e. Vegan, Halal, Kosher, low sodium, etc.)
? Ensure all menus are approved by a dietician that is licensed in the facility?s state prior to use
? Ensure all menus are reviewed in accordance with state guidelines
? Create and maintain recipe cards specifying how to prepare said menu item for each menu item
? Build and maintain order calculators and ingredients lists to assist dietary managers for each recipe. Calculators should be built in a way that allows dietary managers to input census data.
? Approve all food orders across all facilities weekly
? Create policies, procedures, and training to ensure compliance with all aspects of USDA food code
? Ensure food is delivered on time, on temperature, and on budget at every facility every meal
? Ensure all kitchens meet FDA standards and keep policies, procedures, and staffing requirements for kitchens are up to date
? Establish and maintain working relationships with vendors for all facilities
? Perform all other tasks assigned by supervisor
? Travel when necessary
? Pay for travel expenses with a personal credit card prior to travel, with reimbursement to follow
? Oversee dietary/food purchasing activities including, positioning, strategy development, vendor negotiations, contract review, and pricing/costing
? Hire, grow, and develop current and future talent, providing positive and constructive feedback through coaching, mentoring, and counseling
? Possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action
? Be knowledgeable of practices and procedures as well as the laws, regulations, and guidelines governing functions in care facilities
? Implement and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures of the department
? Perform proficiently in all competency areas including but not limited to patient rights, and safety and sanitation
? Maintain professional working relationships with all associates, vendors, etc
