Culinary Services Cook

Sonida Senior Living, Inc.; Santa Barbara (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life/disability insurance

401k with company match

PTO from day one

Paid training

Job summary

Sonida Senior Living, Inc. in Santa Barbara, CA, is seeking a Dining Services Chef to provide healthy meals for residents and uphold dining standards.

You will oversee meal service delivery, maintain cleanliness, and support residents through attentive service in a warm senior living environment. The role emphasizes safety, adherence to local/state rules, and collaboration with care teams to observe residents’ status and preferences.

Qualifications

• One to two years’ experience in a similar position preferred.
• Enjoy providing exceptional customer service and care to our senior residents.

Responsibilities

• Provide healthy meals for residents.
• Maintain standards for dining services, ensure efficient meal service delivery, and uphold cleanliness of dining room and kitchen.
• Report problems with food service and communicate them appropriately.
• Observe changes in resident status, needs or preferences and communicate them appropriately.
• Observe all work, safety, and administrative rules to include local and state requirements.

Skills

Customer service

Job description

Find your joy here, at Villa Santa Barbara, a Sonida Senior Living community! We offer a comprehensive benefit package to include competitive wage/salary, health and dental insurance, 401k with company match & much more!

Villa Santa Barbara, a premier retirement community in Santa Barbara, CA, provides quality care to residents in an assisted living community.

What we offer you:

• Cutting edge technology to enhance the lives of our residents and make your job easier and more effective.
• Advanced EHR Technologies - automated care assessments eliminating busy work, helping you deliver better care
• Sage - Improve call light response time and improvement to service and care
• Company support for educational and learning opportunities
• Paid referral programs for Team Member and Resident referrals
• Medical, dental, vision, and life/disability insurances*
• 401k retirement savings offering a discretionary match determined each year based on company performance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Dependent Care and FSA saving accounts
• PTO available day one
• Paid Training

*Benefit eligibility dependent on employment status

**Eligibility based on location

Dining Services Chef Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing healthy food for residents.
• Maintains standards for dining services to the Residents to include efficient meal service delivery, customer service and cleanliness of the dining room and kitchen.
• Reports problems, concerns and issues observed with food service and communicates them appropriately.
• Observes changes in Resident status, needs or preferences and communicates them appropriately.
• Observes all work, safety, and administrative rules to include local and state requirements.

Qualifications:

• One to two years’ experience in a similar position preferred.
• Enjoy providing exceptional customer service and care to our senior residents.

Equal Opportunity Employer
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