Dietary Aide SNF

FREEDOM POINTE AT THE VILLAGES, LLC; Santa Rosa (CA); On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading senior living community as a Dietary Aide, where you'll provide exceptional service and support to our residents. In this role, you will assist in food preparation, maintain cleanliness, and ensure a high level of customer service, all while embracing a culture of hospitality and wellness.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand and follow instructions in English.
• Experience in food service work preferred.

Responsibilities

• Sets tables and maintains work stations.
• Assists in the preparation of hot and cold foods.
• Maintains safe and sanitary conditions in work areas.

Skills

Customer Service

Communication

Food Handling

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Position Title: Dietary Aide

Department & Group: Dietary SNF

Salary DOE: Starting at $21.00

When you work at Arbol Residences Santa Rosa, you have a front-row seat to the amazing life stories of the wisest people on earth. What's more, you are part of an extraordinary company - one that's investing in the future of senior living by investing in you. Don't just do a job. Be part of an extraordinary life!

Arbol Residences Santa Rosa is recruiting for a hospitality focused Dietary Aide to join our culinary team! This role provides full-scope, hands on serving functions within the community.

Here are a few of the daily responsibilities of a Dietary Aide

• Sets tables and maintains work stations in proper order.
• Operates a variety of kitchen utensils to weigh, measure, mix wash, peel, cut, grind, stir, strain, season and knead foodstuffs for cooking, serving and storing.
• Assists in the preparation of hot and/or cold foods, and properly stores food, utilizing knowledge of temperature requirements and spoilage.
• Takes orders, provides service and requested items both graciously and courteously.
• Ability to follow the Arbol steps of service.
• Accurately completed daily opening and closing check lists for their respective duties.
• Brews coffee and tea. May be required to restock other beverage areas.
• Serves and replenishes food from counters and steam tables and breaks down stations at the end of meal periods.
• Clears dishes from during and after meal service.
• Answers pertinent questions about menu items.
  
  

Other Duties

• Assists in maintaining a high level of customer service for our residents and their guests.
• Assists with dish washing and distribution of clean dishes if needed.
• Maintains safe and sanitary conditions in work areas. Inspects workstations for compliance with service standards, cleans and sanitizes workstations and equipment.
• Maintains acceptable standards of personal hygiene and complies with department dress code.
• Completes all assigned cleaning tasks.
• Attends in-service training and education sessions as assigned.
• Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
  
  

Here are a few of the qualifications we need you to have

• Minimum completion of sophomore year in high school required
• Experience in food service work preferred
• Experience in working with seniors preferred
  
  

HOSPITALITY FOCUS

The Arbol Fully Embraces 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

The Arbol employees are expected to promote a healthy community 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.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Ability to understand and follow instructions in English and communicate effectively.
• Experience waiting tables in a hotel, restaurant or club with fine dining preferred; will train.
• Ability to interpret and explain menu, refer or answer questions, coordinate meal service process and understands requests.
• Ability to work in close cooperation with residents, guests, visitors, families, vendors, supervisor and peers. Requires courtesy, tact and graciousness.
• Basic food-handling skills.
  
  

Certifications, Licenses, And Other Special Requirements

Current ServSafe Certification required. Obtain/hold any local, state and/or country required food handling sanitation licenses and/or certificates.

Many roles in the community may require that we ask about your vaccination status. This could include MMR, chicken pox, hepatitis, flu and COVID-19 vaccine status. Please note that all employees are required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination, or apply for and receive an approved exemption, as a condition of employment.

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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