Director of Dietary Services

About Progressive Quality Care:Our company is a family-owned business founded by Rose and Hugo Dancziger. We got our start with the 1960's purchase of the Little Flower Nursing Home in Parma, Ohio. They firmly believed in making every resident feel the warmth and caring of home as each became and integral part member of their new family.Rose and Hugo left a legacy for their children and grandchildren to emulate - to bring a sense of family and love into the lives of those in their care, to give each resident the respect and caring reserved for family, and to provide them with a home. We continue to live by their example.We are committed to providing an excellent level of physical, medical, emotional, and spiritual support. We believe in Life Enrichment and embracing the good during these more difficult times in our residents' lives. We are constantly changing and adapting with the ever-growing industry of long-term care, and our state-of-the-art, hotel-like facilities are the pinnacle of what long-term care should look like.At the heart of it all, we still operate like the family-owned company that we are, and value each other as much as we do our residents as we work together to be at the forefront of the industry with our ever-growing portfolio of long-term care communities.As a Director of Dining Services at a Progressive Quality Care facility you must be able to perform the following essential functions as demonstrated by the ability to:Participation in the nutritional care of the residents including gathering of objective data for initial, annual and quarterly assessments, resident interviews for food preferences and participation in the interdisciplinary care plan meetings.Responsible for staffing the dietary department including scheduling, adhering to departmental budget, adhering to budgeted hours, and hiring and training new employees.Responsible for evaluation and termination of employees.Communicates pertinent information to employees including in-service education.Communicates payroll and payable information for the dietary department to the HRM.Responsible for the purchasing, requisition, receiving and storage of all food and supplies for the dietary department and maintains cost within the dietary budget.Responsible for high sanitation standards including preparation and enforcement to cleaning schedules for the dietary department.Maintains records for the dietary department including menus, standardized recipes, meal census, diet cardex, diet roster, diets served, purchase records, weekly staffing and current policies and procedures.Adheres to all facility policies and procedures including Resident’s Rights, infection control and safety.Comply with state, federal and OSHA regulations.Comply with all facility policies and procedures.Accountable for the information contained in the employee handbook.Coordinates foods for special events or parties with activities or other departments as necessary.Represents the dietary department in a professional manner and accepts duties from supervisor in a cooperative manner.Understands that exposure to hazardous chemicals or blood borne pathogens is a possibility in long term care.