About the Role
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Food Service Manager provides overall leadership and direction for the Food Service Department. Ensures that residents receive safe, nutritious, and high-quality meals that meet individual dietary needs while promoting a positive dining experience. This position ensures compliance with regulatory standards, organizational policies, and best practices to support the health, well-being, and satisfaction of residents.
Responsibilities
- Plan, organize and provide high-quality dietary services for residents of the facility.
- Apply continuous quality improvement principles, best practices, and standardization to workflow, performance, production, and changes to service and dietary requirements to meet legislative requirements.
- Select, supervise and motivate dietary staff; ensure dietary staff works as a team, ensure a high level of productivity and better use of staff capabilities.
- Ensure the environment of all food preparation and storage areas meets Public Health requirements.
- Maintain all records in accordance with policies, procedures, and legislative requirements, including the implementation and posting of all regular and therapeutic menus.
- Liaise and consult with residents, families, team members, government officials, and professionals in relation to resident care needs and department activities.
- Participate in the budgeting process; be accountable for the departmental budget and food costs.
- Support the Environmental department with product ordering and general tasks.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years dietary management experience in a long-term care setting.
- Experience managing employees within a unionized setting.
- Knowledge of Occupational Health & Safety practices, principles, and legislation.
- Customer-focused with a high emphasis on building and maintaining relationships with clients.
- Flexibility to participate in the manager on-call rotation schedule.
- A negative vulnerable sector check completed within 6 months of hire date.
- Completion of a 2 Step TB Skin test within the last 12 months.
Skills
- Current membership with the Canadian Society of Nutritional Management (C.S.N.M.) or the College of Dietitians of Ontario required.
- Strong leadership skills to direct the work of employees.
- Superb organizational, time management, and multi-tasking skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are essential.
Location
- Chelsey Park Retirement Home
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2 years dietary management experience
Education Level
- Current membership with the Canadian Society of Nutritional Management (C.S.N.M.) or the College of Dietitians of Ontario required.
Salary/Compensations
- $60,000 - $65,000
About the Company
- Southbridge Care Homes provides exceptional acquisition, management, and redevelopment services for long-term care homes and retirement communities across Ontario.
- Our mission is to maintain a best-in-class portfolio that consistently delivers excellence in care and services while ensuring economic sustainability.
Equal Opportunity
- Southbridge welcomes those applicants with disability related needs and those whom a need for accommodation in the recruitment process. Please provide notice of your need for accommodation to the hiring manager upon scheduling of an interview.
- At Southbridge, we care about your privacy and strive to protect Applicant Data throughout the recruitment process. To that end, information that we gather from applicants via job postings, is used solely for the purposes of recruiting and hiring.
