Certified Dietary Manager Hildebrand Care Center

Are you interested in joining a dynamic team of caregivers in a supportive, family-like work environment? Come join us in giving high-quality person-centered care to our elders and enjoy a positive work experience!

Hildebrand Care Center is committed to excellence in person centered care, promoting individuality through personal choices of daily life with the support and encouragement of families, employees, board of directors, and the community.

Certified Dietary Manager

To provide the day-to-day management and leadership for the Culinary Department necessary to ensure the delivery of the highest quality food service to the residents of Hildebrand Care Center, consistent with the facility's mission statement and within the constraints of the departmental budget.

• This position is classified as Hourly, Management

• Must be a Certified Dietary Manager and receive frequently scheduled consultations from a qualified dietitian or other clinically qualified nutritional professional.
• Have a least one-year experience working in a long-term setting.
• PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
  Must be able to lift 20-60 lbs from floor to cart weekly.
• Must be able to push a 5-10 lb cart 500 feet daily.
• Must be able to stand approximately 3 hours and walk approximately 5 hours during the course of the work day. Must be able to escort residents in wheelchairs. Must be able to occasionally crouch, kneel, reach above shoulder/down to floor/across shoulders, stoop and twist back. Must be able to frequently bend, grasp with fingers and twist head.
• Hearing must be adequate to hear residents’ concerns, needs, desires, and to answer telephone.
• Vision must be adequate to observe residents, complete documentation on paper and computer, dial telephone, push wheelchairs, and ambulate from room to room.
• This position is classified as moderate risk for blood borne pathogen exposure.

• REPORTING RELATIONSHIP:
  Reports to Nursing Home Administrator.
• The following positions report to the Certified Dietary Manager:
  All culinary employees.
• AUTHORITY:
  Has authority to assess departmental adherence to the organizational policies and procedures related to the Culinary department functions.
• Has authority to develop, implement, and maintain Culinary department policies and procedures.
• Has the authority to commit and spend Culinary department funds within the allotted budget.
• Has authority to hire, train, evaluate and terminate Culinary staff with prior concurrence of the Administrator and HR Director.
• Has the authority to access the electronic health record according to the HIPAA Privacy and Security policy as specified under clinical authorization.

• Responsible for all menu planning to meet the nutritional and dietary requirements of each resident, within established guidelines.
• Responsible for all meal preparations to ensure compliance with established meal schedules, safety, sanitary, nutritional and dietary requirements.
• Responsible for timely and pleasant, person-centered food service to the residents.
• Responsible for adequate food stocks and related supplies required for the smooth operation of the department within established budgetary expense and inventory constraints.
• Responsible for all required record keeping related to menu composition, preparation standards, sanitary standards, dietary programs and assessments.
• Responsible for adequate employee staffing levels and the ongoing retention of a motivated, trained, competent and competitively compensated Dietary Department staff.
• Responsible to use universal precautions and necessary personal protective equipment to protect residents, yourself and others from exposure to blood, body fluids and tissue.
• Responsible to report any resident abuse to the authorities and the Director of Nursing as mandated and per the facility’s resident abuse policy.
• Responsible to report incidents or exposure to the charge nurse immediately.
• Responsible to follow all rules and regulations of the facility.
• Responsible to maintain a neat and clean appearance.
• Responsible to treat residents and staff with kindness and consideration, and to promote an atmosphere of…