Certified Dietary Manager (CDM)/Kitchen Manager

Penick Village; Southern Pines (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Penick Village in Southern Pines, NC is seeking an experienced Certified Dietary Manager (CDM)/Kitchen Manager to lead our Healthcare Dining Services team. This role oversees daily operations, ensures high food quality, regulatory compliance, and resident satisfaction, while fostering a positive team culture.

Collaborating with the RD and interdisciplinary team, you will manage menu planning, diets, and safety programs, while supervising staff and ensuring efficient service in a healthcare

Qualifications

• Graduate of Dietary Manager's Course (2-year or 4-year program) and successful completion of the CDM exam.
• Two years of experience in food service management, preferably in healthcare.
• ServSafe Certification is required.
• Ability to lead Dining Services while ensuring regulatory compliance and resident satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily operations of Healthcare Dining Services and supervise staff.
• Plan menus, respond to client preferences, and manage dietary needs.
• Ensure food safety, sanitation, and adherence to regulations.
• Collaborate with RD and IDT to support residents' nutritional health.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, and inventory to optimize costs.

Skills

Food service leadership

Regulatory compliance

Staff development

Nutrition knowledge

Sanitation standards

Education

Dietary Manager program graduate

CDM exam certified

Job description

Certified Dietary Manager (CDM)/Kitchen Manager

Penick Village – Southern Pines, NC

Penick Village is seeking an experienced and motivated Certified Dietary Manager (CDM)/Kitchen Manager to lead our Healthcare Dining Services team. This leadership role is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the healthcare dining department while ensuring exceptional food quality, regulatory compliance, resident satisfaction, and a positive team culture.

If you are passionate about serving older adults, developing employees, and maintaining high standards of food service excellence, we encourage you to apply.

Position Summary

The Certified Dietary Manager (CDM) / Kitchen Manager is responsible for the daily operations of the Healthcare Dining Services Department in accordance with Penick Village policies and procedures and all applicable federal, state, and local regulations. This position provides leadership and direction to dining services staff, ensuring exceptional food quality, regulatory compliance, resident satisfaction, food safety, sanitation, and efficient department operations.

In addition to overseeing kitchen operations, this position plays a key role in

Nutrition in our Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living Department

By collaborating with the Registered Dietitian (RD), nursing staff, physicians, and the interdisciplinary team (IDT) to support residents' nutritional health, responsibilities include processing new diet orders and diet changes, maintaining accurate diet records, completing assigned MDS nutrition sections within required timelines, developing and implementing individualized dietary plans in accordance with physician orders and RD guidance, reviewing and updating nutrition assessments and care plans, documenting and addressing nutritional concerns, participating in interdisciplinary care planning, and supporting the Registered Dietitian in delivering quality nutrition services that promote optimal resident health and regulatory compliance.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Operations Management

• Supervise departmental business operations, develop and implement cost‑effective
• Utilize forecasts, menu specifications, and current inventory levels to effectively plan food purchases.
• Communicate and report all purchasing plans to the Executive Chef/ Culinary Manager for approval and oversight.
• Utilize equipment and supplies inventory to strategically plan purchases, ensuring operational efficiency and maintaining adequate stock levels.
• Report all purchasing plans to the Director of Dining.
• Work cooperatively with residents, facility staff, physicians, consultants, vendors, and other service providers.

Food Service Management

• Specify standards and procedures for preparing
• Participate in menu planning including responding to client preferences, substitution lists, therapeutic diets, and industry trends.
• Inspect meals and ensure that standards for appearance, palatability, temperature, and servings times are met.
• Manage the preparation and service of special nourishment and supplemental
• Assure that foods are prepared according to production schedules, menus, and standardized recipes.

Food Safety

• Ensure proper sanitation and safety practices of
• Manage staff to ensure compliance with safety and sanitation regulations including safe receiving, storage, preparation, and service of food.
• Protect food in all phases of preparation, holding, service, cooking, and
• Manage physical facilities to ensure compliance with federal and state food safety and sanitation regulations.
• Prepare cleaning schedules and maintain equipment to ensure food

Nutrition and Medical Nutrition Therapy

• Process new diet orders and diet changes; keeps diet cards
• Complete the assigned MDS section according to required
• 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
• Review, revise, and implement, in cooperation with the IDT, the client's nutrition assessment and plan of care.
• Supports Registered Dietitian duties as needed.

Personnel Management and Communications

• Recruit, interview, hire, onboard, coach, evaluate, reward, discipline, and when necessary, terminate employees.
• Review and update job description and job duties for each level of foodservice
• Identify staffing Review schedules to ensure adequate departmental staffing on all shifts.
• Participate in regulatory agency
• Provide and manage ongoing education and training for staff on federal, state and organizational regulations and policies.
• Establish, manage, and evaluate effectiveness of departmental goals.

Job Relationships

• Reports to the Director of Dining
• Direct supervisory responsibility for healthcare dining attendants, cooks and
• Collaborates with residents, facility staff, physicians, consultants, vendors, and other service providers.

Education and Requirements

• Graduate of Dietary Manager's Course, 2‑yr, or 4‑yr food‑service program
• Successful completion of Certified Dietary Manager exam
• Two years' experience in food service management
• Two plus years of healthcare experience preferred
• ServSafe Certification