Food Service Director

Description

Malvern Treatment Centers is currently seeking a full time Food Service Director to work at our Malvern Treatment Center facility in Philadelphia. The location of our Malvern Treatment Centers - Philadelphia is currently located in South Philadelphia but we will be relocating to 3905 W. Ford Road - Philadelphia, PA 19131 in May 2025.

The Food Service Director position is a full time, benefit eligible position offering an exciting opportunity to work with a growing Healthcare and Food Service company!

Position Summary: The Food Service Director prepares food items and directly oversees all food service production for patients, staff, and visitors as well as all retail and catering operations. The Food Service Director provides mentoring, supervision, and coordination of dietary staff to maintain high standards of quality food production, safety, sanitation, and service in accordance with established policies and procedures and in a manner consistent with the philosophy and objectives of Malvern Health Food Services.

Summary of Essential Position Functions:

• Prepares meals, snacks and food for patients, staff and any other dietary functions up to and including catering orders. 

• Cleans and maintains kitchen, equipment, and storage areas to be free of all debris. Manages proper sanitation procedures and ensures compliance of weekly and monthly cleaning schedules with staff.

• Ensures proper operation of all food service equipment and reports any concerns to the Regional Director.

• Monitors for compliance with County, Department of Health and CARF/Joint Commission standards.

• Follows dietary standards for special diets ordered for patients and educates staff on how to execute diets.

• Presents attractive plates with fresh, wholesome, and nutritious foods in a cost-effective manner; presents food properly seasoned; presents food on time and at proper temperatures; and prepares meals of proper quality.

• Follows recipes for food and provides food in sufficient quantity according to census.

• Ensures daily temperature logs are maintained with use of functioning thermometers in all cold storage units & mechanical dish washing equipment.

• Executes monthly purchasing analysis for assigned location.

• Finds suitable uses for excess food to avoid waste and educates staff on how to reduce waste.

• Properly stores, dates, and rotates stock.

• Coordinates and communicates necessary preparation for next days meals with prep lists for staff.

• Plans and coordinates new ideas and new menu items.

• Attends in-services and all required trainings.

• Checks all deliveries for accuracy and quality.

• Oversight of sanitation, placing food orders, confirmation of deliveries, temperature log checks, assurance of food quality and rotation.

• Assists with maintaining professional behavior and food quality and procedures for the department.

Benefits

This position is a full time, benefit eligible position. Benefits offered include, but not limited to:

• Medical Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Life Insurance

• Paid Time Off

• 401K plan with company match

Qualifications

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to demonstrate competency in the criteria listed in this job description. The specifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability to meet the minimum requirements for this position.

Education: Prefer high school diploma or equivalent.

Experience: Minimum five years institutional cooking experience in a hospital, healthcare, or hospitality setting.

Licensure/Certification: SERV Safe

Knowledge: Knowledge of basic food science, equipment usage, cleaning products, safety, and infection control practices.

Supervision Received: Regional Director of Food Services

Supervision Exercised: Dietary Staff

Environmental Condition: Works in food production kitchen setting subject to extreme changes in temperature. Exposure to chemical dependent and dual diagnosis patients. Potential for exposure to communicable diseases, blood/body fluids and other hazardous waste. Exposure to equipment and cleaning products and fluids.

Physical Requirements: Heavy physical workload. push, pull and lift up to 50 pounds. Requires standing, walking, bending, pulling, pushing, kneeling, and stooping throughout the shift. Ability to safely operate kitchen equipment. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing. Drug and alcohol free as evidenced by negative results of post-offer, pre-employment urine drug screen.

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

*Malvern health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.*