Lead Dietary Aide
Vancouver, WA 
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Posted 14 days ago
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Position Details: * Salary: 17.25 - 21.50 Hourly:: Information About Prestige Senior Living - Bridgewood Located at 11700 NE Angelo Drive in Vancouver, WA, Prestige Senior Living - Bridgewood has 72 apartments of assisted living, as well as 52 units of independent living, with it being licensed for 124 total beds. If you are looking for the highest quality of healthcare communities or care centers, you won't find anyone better. Bridgewood has enjoyed a string of unbelievably high performance, including multiple recent deficiency-free surveys, multiple national quality care awards through the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living, and more. Additionally, Bridgewood has had multiple team members get promoted into regional/corporate-level roles, and is constantly featured on local media. Our community is beautiful, impeccably kept up and a truly safe and enjoyable place to spend your working days. The community really is a true family, focused on teamwork and collaboration. There is a strong commitment to a coaching and democratic leadership style at Bridgewood so team members are empowered to come to work, learn, and offer the bets in care. This is a culture of high performance and teamwork. All managers at the community are available and present at all times to support our team. By working at Bridgewood, you would be enjoying a strong coaching leadership style, a supportive environment, and one in which you are empowered to own your role, and joy opportunities for career advancement. If working in a home-like setting, with a strong team atmosphere, and with a national award-winning employer that has a great promote-from-within culture, then Prestige Senior Living - Bridgewood is the place for you. Who Is Prestige Care? Prestige Care is a family of over 75 skilled nursing + post-acute care centers, as well as assisted living and memory care communities in 8 Western states. We are an organization of over 5,000 team members who serve thousands of residents, where we have the privilege of personally touching their lives every day. We have four core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect that guide everything that we do. With a strong commitment to career development and advancement, Prestige Care is a employer that can help you achieve your career goals and objectives. With a healthcare career at Prestige Care, you will enjoy a collaborative, team-oriented environment where your work truly matters at the end of every day. Summary of Benefits Full-time team members are eligible for Prestige's comprehensive benefits package, including choice of medical plans, HSA/FSA accounts, dental and vision insurance, and company-paid life and ADD insurance. All team members are eligible to participate in the company's retirement plans with a company match for those who meet the hours and service requirements. Additional benefits include Employee Assistance Program and Education Reimbursement program. Full-time and Part-Time (over 20 hours/week) accrue PTO at rate of 0 .034/ hour during their first year. POSITION SUMMARY: The Lead Dietary Aide assists with food preparation, food service, and general duties of the dietary department. In addition, the Lead Dietary Aide supports the Dining Services manager with the overall dining experience and staffing and training of Dietary Aides. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: * Assists in the preparation of food and is responsible for serving meals, snacks, and beverages using portion control and applicable sanitation practices. * Responsible for delivering meals to resident rooms or tables and setting up meal trays in accordance with dietary orders and tray cards. Ensures residents are served proper diet and food preferences in a timely manner. * Keeps the kitchen, dietary equipment, and dining room clean and sanitary at all times, including work areas and floors. * Cleans utensils, dishes, and pots and pans by operating the dishwasher or proper handwashing processes. Ensures dishwasher is working properly and at the appropriate temperature. Records temperature of dishwasher. Properly stores pots, dishes, and utensils. * Ensures proper storage, rotation, preparation, and labeling of food in accordance with State and local guidelines and Prestige policy. Discards outdated food. * Partners with dietary staff to ensure equipment is working properly and at the appropriate temperature. Records temperature of equipment throughout shift as needed. Reports faulty equipment immediately. * Follows facility fire safety, infection control, and hazardous chemical practices and promptly reports any unsafe conditions. * Greets residents, visitors, and staff courteously and in a manner that respects dignity, meets confidentiality standards, and promotes resident and staff rights. * Resets the dining room for the next meal and ensures supplies are available for upcoming meals. * Assists in storing incoming food and supplies as assigned. * Attends and participates in training, in-services, and staff meetings. * Partners with leadership team in planning and preparing for special meals, events, and parties as needed. * Assists with the interviewing, scheduling, onboarding, and development of Dietary Aides. * Collaborates with DSM to create and maintain Dietary Aide schedule that accommodates requested days off, vacations and sick time while maintaining appropriate staffing levels to properly serve the needs of the residents. * Provides on-call support for team member questions and staffing coordination. * Ensures dining experience of residents meets Prestige best practices. Escalates resident feedback or concerns to DSM or leadership team timely and appropriately. * Performs other duties as assigned. COMPANY WIDE RESPONSIBILITIES: * Demonstrates Core Values of Respect, Integrity, Commitment, and Trust. * Supports a dignified and caring atmosphere with residents, residents' families, visitors, and staff. * Protects privacy and confidentiality of information pertaining to residents, team members, the department/center/community, and company information and records. * Maintains a safe and secure working environment and practices safe working habits. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: Must have Food Handler Permit as required by the State. Dining experience and leadership or mentorship experience preferred. EDUCATION: Some High School education preferred. EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED - At Prestige, it is our promise to personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at the center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how we celebrate what makes us different. Prestige is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

 

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As soon as possible
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Regular, Full or Part Time
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