Dietary Team Lead

Sagewood; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

16 days PTO

Personal days

6 paid holidays

Medical, Dental, Vision

401K + match

Scholarship

Tuition Reimbursement

Daily Pay

Meal privileges

Merit-based increases

Professional development

Job summary

Acacia Health Center at Sagewood in Northeast Phoenix is hiring a full-time Lead Diet Aide to join our team. This 5-Star CMS facility offers skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care in a modern healthcare building.

You will maintain dining rooms, coordinate meals, train staff, and ensure nutrition standards. The role requires strong customer care, weekend availability, and compliance with health screenings. Competitive pay and benefits included.

Qualifications

• Two years as a server or dietary aide in a senior living community or healthcare center.
• Ability to interpret and explain menus, coordinate meal service, and answer questions.
• Provide high levels of customer care with compassion and heart.
• Willing to work weekends and holidays; flu vaccine required; background and drug screening.

Responsibilities

• Maintain dining room and service kitchen appearance, sanitation, and setting.
• Communicate with cooks and diet aides to ensure proper temperature, quality, and timeliness.
• Delegate tasks and assist with premeal prep; ensure diet rosters are accurate.
• Maintain inventory across satellite and neighborhood kitchens and storage areas.
• Meet with supervisor for dining room needs and new systems.
• Explain meal programs to new admissions and residents' families.
• Assist with new hire education and staff development.
• Serve meals with care and positivity.
• Uphold high sanitation and food safety standards.
• Work with a passionate team in a fast-paced kitchen.
• Provide optimal hospitality to residents and guests.

Skills

Customer care

Communication

Teamwork

Food service

Education

Arizona Food Handler Card

Job description

Lead Diet Aide at a 5-Star Rated Health Center

Ready to take your passion for people to the next level - without the late nights and high stress of restaurant serving?

Acacia Health Center in beautiful Northeast Phoenixe is hiring a full-time Lead Diet Aide to join our team. We're part of the prestigious Sagewood Senior Living Community, a CMS 5-Star Rated Facility. Come work in our beautiful healthcare building which supports skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care.

Position Details:

• Pay: $19-21/ hr
• Schedule: 40 hours per week. No late nights!
  Split schedule working 6:30a – 2:30p and 11:00a-7:00p
  Working weekends and occasional holidays.
• Location: Acacia Health Center at Sagewood
  4555 E. Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85050

What You'll Be Doing:

• Maintain the physical appearance of the dining rooms and service kitchens, staff, table place settings, chairs, floors, general sanitation.
• Communicates with the cooks and diet aides ensuring all food is prepared to proper temperature, quality appearance, consistency, and timeliness of service.
• Delegating tasks assignments and assisting with premeal before each meal service. Ensuring the diet rosters are accurate and communicated to all staff.
• Fulfills and ensures that diet aides have all necessary inventory throughout the satellite kitchens, neighborhood kitchens, and storage areas.
• Confers with the supervisor regarding dining room’s needs, special events, planning, and implementation of new systems.
• Meets with new admissions as needed, our current residents, their families, and visitors explaining our meal programs, menus, likes/dislikes, dining times, and any other matters.
• Assists with new hire education, training, and staff development.
• Serving meals to residents with care and positivity
• Maintaining high standards of sanitation and food safety
• Working alongside a passionate team in a fast-paced kitchen
• Provide optimum hospitality services to our residents and their guests

Perks & Benefits:

• Accrue 16 days of PTO your first year plus 2 personal days and 6 paid holidays!
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401K + employer match
• Scholarship (employees plus their school aged dependents!)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Daily Pay Options
• Meal Privileges Each Shift
• Annual merit-based increases
• Professional development & mentorship
• And more!

What We’re Looking For:

• A minimum of two years as a server and or dietary aide experience in a senior living community, or healthcare center.
• Ability to interpret and explain menu, refer or answer questions, coordinate meal service process and understand requests
• Someone who provides high levels of customer care with compassion and heart
• Bringing your passions where you can make a true difference in the lives of others
• Comfortable working weekends and occasional holidays and being on your feet for extended periods of time
• Arizona Food Handler Card required
• Must pass a background check and drug screening
• Flu vaccine required

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