Do you enjoy preparing delicious meals? Are you interested in joining a team that recognizes leadership and excellence in food service and guest hospitality? Would you like to cultivate your passion for the culinary arts? As the Kitchen Supervisor at The Laurels of Walden Park, you will supervise the facilities Dietary Department, and provide nourishing, palatable and well-balanced meals to meet the daily nutritional and special dietary needs of our residents. 

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health insurance - medical, dental and vision.
• 401K with matching funds.
• DailyPay, a voluntary benefit that allows associates at our facilities the ability to access their pay when they need it.
• Paid time off (beginning after six months of employment) and paid holidays.
• Flexible scheduling.
• Tuition reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.
• Zero cost uniforms.

Responsibilities:

• Supervises, interviews, hires, and trains dietary employees.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organizational policies and applicable laws.
• Plans, assigns, and directs work.
• Receives calls and finds replacements for absent staff.
• Monitor and maintain all logs in the kitchen to include but not limited to food temperatures, dish machine temperatures and sanitizing, sanitation buckets, food usage, maintaining MSDS sheets, use-by dating of food items, refrigerator and freezer temperatures, food usage, etc. 
• Organizes food preparation and services to ensure food is served to Residents within scheduled time frames.
• Provides food alternatives of similar nutritional value for Residents who refuse food served. 
• Orders food economically and efficiently from approved sources considered satisfactory by federal, state and local authorities.
• Maintains sufficient inventory of food and supplies. Establishes effective system to track inventory and secure storage areas. 
• Ensures that food is received, stored, prepared, held and served under sanitary conditions to prevent the transmission of food borne illness.
• Completes and maintains all Food and Nutrition Services Department records and forms related to sanitation and food acceptance including administrative statistics on number of meals served, food costs, menus and repairs. 

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prefer one-year supervised food service experience in an institutional setting.
• ServSafe Certification required within 90 days of employment.

Ciena Healthcare:

We are a national organization of skilled nursing, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living providers dedicated to achieving the highest standards of care in five states including Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, and Indiana.

We serve our residents with compassion, concern, and excellence, believing that every one of them is a unique person who deserves our best each day that we care for them. If you have a passion for improving the lives of those around you and working with others who feel the same way.