Certified Dietary Manager - Heartland Country Village

                                                 Heartland Country Village is seeking a Certified Dietary Manager to join our family!

All Your Needs. All Our Hearts.

Heartland Country Village located just 20 minutes from beautiful Madison, Wisconsin offers skilled and long-term care. This campus offers care for 40 residents and patients who rely on us for life enrichment and quality of care.

We offer an array of employment opportunities for all types of professional interests. We offer competitive wages and benefits, tuition assistance and professional advancement programs.

We are currently seeking a Certified Dietary Manager for our 40-bed Skilled Nursing Center. This unit offers short term rehabilitation as well as long term care. The community describes Heartland Country Village as ‘family’, and we’re honored to serve every one of our 40 residents with the most compassionate care for over 45 years.

Come join our enthusiastic team! It’s not just our promise, it’s our passion.

Full-time opportunity 40 hours/week

Purpose of Your Job Position

The primary purpose of your job position is to work with the Dietitian in planning, organizing, developing and directing the overall operation of the Food Services Department in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines and regulations governing our facility, and as may be directed by the Administrator, to assure that quality nutritional services are provided on a daily basis and that the Food Services Department is maintained in a clean, safe, and sanitary manner.

Administrative Functions

• Assist in planning, developing, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and directing the Food Services Department, its programs, and activities.
• Assume administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability of supervising the Food Services Department.
• Assist in developing and maintaining written food services policies and procedures.
• Interpret the department’s policies and procedures to employees, residents, visitors, government agencies, etc., as necessary.
• Perform administrative duties such as completing necessary forms, reports, evaluations, studies, etc., to assure control of equipment and supplies.
• Inspect food storage rooms, utility/janitorial closets, etc., for upkeep and supply control.
• Process diet changes and new diets as received from nursing services.
• Assist in developing, implementing, and maintaining an ongoing quality assurance program for the Food Services Department.
• Participate in facility surveys inspections made by authorized government agencies.
• Interview residents or family members, as necessary, to obtain diet history.
• Participate in maintaining records of the resident’s food likes and dislikes.
• Visit residents periodically to evaluate the quality of meals served, likes and dislikes, etc.
• Assist in planning regular and special diet menus as prescribed by the attending physician.
• Oversee weight loss and gain and add interventions necessary.
• Review therapeutic and regular diet plans and menus to assure they follow the physician’s orders.
• Ensure that food services service work areas are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner.
• Attend department head meetings, etc., as scheduled, or as may be called.
• Assist in the recruitment, interviewing, and selection of food services personnel.
• Determine departmental staffing requirements necessary to meet the Food Services Department’s needs and assign enough food services personnel for each tour of duty.
• Recommend to the Administrator the number and level of food services personnel to be employed.
• Schedule department work hours including vacation and holiday schedules, personnel, work assignments, etc., to expedite work.
• Delegate administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability to other food services personnel as deemed necessary to perform their assigned duties i.e., head cook, cooks, etc..
• Counsel/discipline food services personnel as requested or as necessary.
• Assist in standardizing the methods in which food services tasks will be performed.
• Make daily rounds to assure that food services personnel are performing required duties and to assure that appropriate food services procedures are being rendered to meet the needs of the facility.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, and positive emphasis as well as a calm environment throughout the facility.
• Assist in the development of and participate in the planning, conducting, and scheduling of timely in-service training classes that provide instructions on “how to do the job,†and that ensure a well-educated Food Services Department.
• Ensure that all food services personnel attend and participate in annual in-service training programs e.g., OSHA, TB, HIPAA, Abuse Prevention, etc..

C ourage and Commitment to Exceed Expectations

O ptimistic about our Future

M otivate Yourself and Others

P atient Hearts Giving Passionate Care

A chieve Success with Integrity

S ervant Leadership, Valued Employees

S trength Through Perseverance

I nspired Excellence

O neness with Teamwork

N urture with Loving Kindness

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.