NUTRITION SUPERVISOR (24360)

Cantex; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with match

CEU reimbursement

Vacation

Sick leave

Holidays

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Supplemental insurance

Job summary

Cantex in a healthcare setting seeks a Nutrition Services Director to plan, direct, and control the Dining Services department, ensuring high-quality patient meals in a cost-effective manner. You will lead staff, equipment, and systems, maintaining standards, safety, and regulatory compliance.

With a CDM or CFSM, you will drive purchasing, staffing, and nutrition monitoring in partnership with a Registered Dietitian, while coordinating dining operations and ensuring patient satisfaction.

Qualifications

• CDM or CFSM certification is required.
• Minimum of one year in a long-term care or healthcare setting preferred.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English; basic arithmetic and measurements used in food prep.
• Cooking/food preparation skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish purchasing, storage and preparation standards for food.
• Maintain safety and sanitation procedures to comply with regulations.
• Plan and administer departmental budget.
• Schedule staffing and assignments for effective food service.
• Collaborate with Registered Dietitian to monitor patient nutrition status.
• Lead staff meetings and communicate administrative information.
• Adapt master menu cycles to patient/facility preferences with RD.
• Procure food supplies within budgetary parameters.
• Supervise receiving and storage of food.
• Monitor temperatures per regulations; ensure food safety.
• Maintain standardized recipes and proper yields.
• Prepare patient food preferences and diet roster.
• Maintain kitchen equipment log; audit tray tickets.
• Provide ongoing staff training and in-services.
• Prepare financial reports; monitor emails; coordinate catering.
• Serve as Team Leader/Role Model; participate in care plan meetings.
• Conduct employee evaluations and provide guidance as needed.
• Enforce applicable policies on abuse prevention; ensure patient safety.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

CDM or CFSM certification

English proficiency

Healthcare setting experience

Cooking experience

Education

CDM or CFSM certification

Job description

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Job Summary:

The overall purpose of the Nutrition Services Director position is to plan, develop, direct, and control the activities of the Dining Services department. This position is responsible for food service standards, policy and procedure, dining staff, equipment, systems, and work areas, while providing the highest quality of food service for patients in a cost-effective manner.

Qualifications:

• a CDM or Certified Food Service Manager. .
• Minimum of one years experience in a long-term care or healthcare setting is preferred.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English language and with a knowledge of arithmetic and units of measurement used in food preparation.
• Ability to cook/prepare food preferred.

Essential Functions:

• Establishes and maintains standards for purchasing, storing and preparation of food.
• Establishes and maintains procedures to meet safety and sanitation standards to assure compliance with government regulations.
• Plans and administers departmental budget.
• Plans and directs employee staffing schedule and assignments to ensure effective food service.
• With Registered Dietitian, monitors nutritional status of patients using regular assessments, progress notes and care planning.
• Represents Nutrition Services Department at staff meetings and communicates pertinent administrative information to staff.
• Adapts master menu cycle to individual and facility preferences with Registered Dietitian.
• Purchase or requisitions food supplies in appropriate quantities based upon the menu and established budgetary parameters
• Supervises receiving and storing of food.
• Monitors all temperatures per local, state, and federal regulations.
• Maintains and issues a file of standardized recipes adjusted to the proper yield.
• Completes initial patient food preferences.
• Maintains diet roster and nourishment list.
• Maintains kitchen Equipment Log.
• Prepares, updates and audits tray tickets as needed.
• In-services Nutrition Services staff on regular basis.
• Prepares and submits financial reports as required.
• Monitors e-mail on regular basis.
• Coordinates catering as necessary.
• Ability to function as a Team Leader/Role Model.
• Attends patient care plan meetings.
• Completes employee evaluations on either an annual basis or post probationary period; as well as provides counsel or disciplinary action when appropriate.
• Has reviewed Cantex Continuing Care Network Policy and Procedures for Abuse Prevention and knows the employees responsibility to enforce it.
• Attends in-services, understands, and complies with Patient Care Management Systems.
• Responsible for assuring patient/resident safety.
• Performs other duties and tasks as assigned.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We offer an excellent benefit plan to include 401K with match, CEU reimbursement, vacation, sick, holidays, medical, dental, and supplemental insurance Plans as well as a Highly competitive compensation package.