Lead Dietary Aide

Prestige Care and Rehabilitation - Pinewood Terrace; Tualatin (OR); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Lead Dietary Aide to join their dedicated team in a vibrant community. This role involves assisting with food preparation, serving meals, and ensuring a clean and sanitary dining environment. You will support the Dining Services Manager in enhancing the dining experience for residents while collaborating with a strong team. If you thrive in a caring atmosphere and are committed to making a difference in the lives of seniors, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a company that values integrity, trust, and respect, and offers a supportive work culture that promotes career advancement.

Benefits

Medical Benefits

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Career Advancement Opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have Food Handler Permit as required by the State.
• Dining experience and leadership or mentorship experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist with food preparation and serving meals to residents.
• Maintain cleanliness of kitchen and dining areas at all times.
• Support training and scheduling of Dietary Aides.

Skills

Food Preparation

Sanitation Practices

Customer Service

Leadership

Education

Some High School Education

Tools

Dishwasher

Job description

We are looking for an amazing person to lead our Dietary team to greatness!

$17.50-$21.25 DOE

If you are reliable, friendly and have a passion for seniors, we want to meet you!

Information About Prestige Senior Living - Riverwood

Located at 18321 SW Pacific Highway in Tualatin, OR, Prestige Senior Living – Riverwood has 60 apartments of all assisted living care.

Riverwood is a clean, vibrant community of healthcare providers and residents. We offer a highly impactful work environment where you can collaborate with other team members to offer the best in care for our residents. If getting to know those you serve is important to you, you get that in spades with us! We offer a strong promote-from-within culture, a home-like work environment, a robust and comprehensive medical/dental/vision/EAP benefits package, lots of different career options, and more.

If working in a home-like setting, with a strong team atmosphere, and with a national award-winning employer that has a great promote-from-within culture, then Riverwood is the place for you.

Who Is Prestige Care/Prestige Senior Living?

Prestige Care is a family of over 75 skilled nursing and post-acute care centers, as well as assisted living and memory care communities in 8 Western states. We are an organization of over 5,000 team members who serve thousands of residents, where we have the privilege of personally touching their lives every day.

We have four core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect that guide everything that we do. With a strong commitment to career development and advancement, Prestige Care is an employer that can help you achieve your career goals and objectives. With a healthcare career at Prestige Care, you will enjoy a collaborative, team-oriented environment where your work truly matters at the end of every day.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Lead Dietary Aide assists with food preparation, food service, and general duties of the dietary department. In addition, the Lead Dietary Aide supports the Dining Services manager with the overall dining experience and staffing and training of Dietary Aides.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Assists in the preparation of food and is responsible for serving meals, snacks, and beverages using portion control and applicable sanitation practices.
2. Responsible for delivering meals to resident rooms or tables and setting up meal trays in accordance with dietary orders and tray cards. Ensures residents are served proper diet and food preferences in a timely manner.
3. Keeps the kitchen, dietary equipment, and dining room clean and sanitary at all times, including work areas and floors.
4. Cleans utensils, dishes, and pots and pans by operating the dishwasher or proper handwashing processes. Ensures dishwasher is working properly and at the appropriate temperature. Records temperature of dishwasher. Properly stores pots, dishes, and utensils.
5. Ensures proper storage, rotation, preparation, and labeling of food in accordance with State and local guidelines and Prestige policy. Discards outdated food.
6. Partners with dietary staff to ensure equipment is working properly and at the appropriate temperature. Records temperature of equipment throughout shift as needed. Reports faulty equipment immediately.
7. Follows facility fire safety, infection control, and hazardous chemical practices and promptly reports any unsafe conditions.
8. Greets residents, visitors, and staff courteously and in a manner that respects dignity, meets confidentiality standards, and promotes resident and staff rights.
9. Resets the dining room for the next meal and ensures supplies are available for upcoming meals.
10. Assists in storing incoming food and supplies as assigned.
11. Attends and participates in training, in-services, and staff meetings.
12. Partners with leadership team in planning and preparing for special meals, events, and parties as needed.
13. Assists with the interviewing, scheduling, onboarding, and development of Dietary Aides.
14. Collaborates with DSM to create and maintain Dietary Aide schedule that accommodates requested days off, vacations and sick time while maintaining appropriate staffing levels to properly serve the needs of the residents.
15. Provides on-call support for team member questions and staffing coordination.
16. Ensures dining experience of residents meets Prestige best practices. Escalates resident feedback or concerns to DSM or leadership team timely and appropriately.
17. Performs other duties as assigned.

COMPANY WIDE RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Demonstrates Core Values of Respect, Integrity, Commitment, and Trust.
2. Supports a dignified and caring atmosphere with residents, residents’ families, visitors, and staff.
3. Protects privacy and confidentiality of information pertaining to residents, team members, the department/center/community, and company information and records.
4. Maintains a safe and secure working environment and practices safe working habits.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Must have Food Handler Permit as required by the State. Dining experience and leadership or mentorship experience preferred.

EDUCATION

Some High School education preferred.

EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED – At Prestige, it is our promise to personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at the center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how we celebrate what makes us different.

Prestige is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.