Head Cook

Hillcrest Healthcare; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Hillcrest Healthcare is seeking a Dietary Services Manager to oversee the operation of the Dietary Department in a long-term care facility. Responsibilities include menu planning, purchasing within budget, and coordinating with the Dietary Consultant to meet government and internal standards.

The role also involves supervising food preparation, ensuring compliance with dietary orders, maintaining records, and evaluating meal quality with residents.

Qualifications

• Organized and detailed in work performance.
• Good communication skills with excellent self-discipline and patience.
• Genuine caring for and interest in elderly and disabled people in a nursing facility.
• Comply with the Residents' Rights and Facility Policies and Procedures.

Responsibilities

• Plan Dietary Services: participate in meetings, purchase food within budget, plan menus to meet nutritional standards, interview residents or family to obtain diet history, maintain records of resident food likes and dislikes, document dietary progress notes and resident response, visit residents to evaluate meals.

Skills

Organized and detailed work

Good communication skills

Patience

Caring for elderly and disabled

Job description

Our recruitment goal is to hire long-term care team members who focus on quality care and excellent employee relations.

It requires caring, dedicated employees to minister to the needs of this country's ever growing senior population. We empower our staff to fulfill this mission.

Beverly Park Place Health and Rehab employees embrace the concept of socialization for every resident and acknowledge that the healing process and long-term health stability relies on Whole Person Care.

Mission: Everyone Matters! Our mission is to respect, preserve the dignity, and celebrate the lives of those we serve.

Vision: Hillcrest Healthcare will lead the way in innovative approaches to delivering excellence in long-term care and will be the provider of choice.

Value Statement: We will serve with dedication, pride, humility, and integrity.

General Purpose:

Manage the operation of the Dietary Department to include food ordering, and preparation, food delivery and clean-up in accordance with facility policies, physician order.

Essential Job Functions

This facility expects their employees to promote an atmosphere of teamwork with other employees and hospitality and comfort for its residents. Therefore, the following list of duties is not all-inclusive:

Plan Dietary Services

• Participate in regularly scheduled conferences including Department Supervisor meetings.
• Purchase food and supplies within budget and maintain a supply to adequately cover each meal.
• Plan menus, conferring with the Dietary Consultant as needed, to confirm that menus conform to nutritional standards and government and established regulations and procedures.
• Interview residents or family members, as necessary, to obtain diet history.
• Participate in maintaining records of the resident's food likes and dislikes.
• Confirm that charted dietary progress notes are informative and descriptive of the services provided and of the resident's response to the service.
• Visit residents periodically to evaluate quality of meals served, likes and dislikes, etc.

Supervise Food Preparation and Staffing

• Provide nutritious, well-prepared, and palatable meals in a timely and consistent manner while adhering to menus and diet orders.
• Verify appropriate meals/snacks are served to residents with special Dietary needs.
• Monitor food production maintaining use of standardized recipes and menus and ensuring proper preparation and storage of food and supplies.
• Maintain the highest level of quality and timeliness of food service.
• Maintain adequate food and supplies for disaster preparedness as required by state and federal regulations.

Unit Supervision Management

• Interview, hire, train, supervise, evaluate and discipline dietary personnel.

• Provide that departmental disciplinary action is administered fairly and without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, or marital status.
• Recognize staff for exceptional care and job performance on a regular basis and as part of their formal performance evaluation.

• Make job assignments and set priorities.
• Orient new staff and participate in recruitment and selection.
• Keep employees informed of changes that affect them.
• Meet Company policies and State and Federal regulations regarding sanitation and safe food handling techniques.
• Maintain records, manage budget and supplies.
• Monitor equipment and work areas to verify they are maintained in a clean, safe and orderly manner; maintain strict adherence to procedures regarding cleaners or hazardous materials or objects; verify universal precautions and infection control, isolation, fire, safety and sanitation practices and procedures are followed; and promptly address any hazardous conditions and equipment.
• Monitor food preparation and food storage areas to be sure that health and sanitation regulations are being met.
• Review resident diet information
• Create and implement procedures for department equipment to be operated only by trained, authorized personnel in a safe manner.

Other Duties

• Attend in-service education programs in order to meet facility educational requirements.
• Be familiar with Standard Precautions, Exposure Control Plan, Fire Drill & Evacuation Procedures and know how to use the information.
• Maintain confidentiality of resident and facility records/information.
• Protect residents from neglect, mistreatment, and abuse.
• Protect the personal property of the residents of the facility.
• Others as directed by the supervisor or administrator.

Minimum Qualifications

• Organized and detailed in work performance.
• Good communication skills with excellent self-discipline and patience.
• Genuine caring for and interest in elderly and disabled people in a nursing facility.
• Comply with the Residents' Rights and Facility Policies and Procedures.
• Perform work tasks within the physical demand requirements as outlined below.
• Perform Essential Duties as outlined above.