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Dietary Manager/Cook | Full-Time
Iris Memory Care | Oklahoma City, OK
About the Role
Do you love cooking meals that bring comfort and joy? Iris Memory Care is looking for a dependable, detail-oriented Dietary Manager/Cook to lead our team. If you take pride in preparing food with care and want your work to truly matter, we’d love to meet you.
Schedule: 4 days per week (with one weekend day) | 6:00am–5:30pm | Full-Time Rate of Pay: Competitive, based on experience
About Our Community
Iris Memory Care is a small, freestanding memory care assisted living community conveniently located in N Oklahoma City. All of our residents live with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, and as an age-in-place community, you’ll prepare meals for residents across the full spectrum of the disease.
What You’ll Do
- Prepare and serve meals to residents within scheduled times, with attention to quality, presentation, and efficient service
- Conducts inventory, purchasing, storing, and preparation of food according to the provided menus and regulations.
- With the Executive Director, establishes departmental goals and objectives.
- Plans and administers departmental budget, including staffing levels.
- Maintain food quality, proper quantities, and sanitation throughout the kitchen
- Keep the kitchen and food storage areas clean, organized, and safe
- Know residents’ food needs and preferences, coordinating with care staff as needed
- Follow established menus and adjust recipes with guidance from the consultant dietician to meet residents’ nutritional needs
- Inspect food for quality, temperature, and appearance before serving; offer substitutions as needed
- Maintain coolers, meal service records, and required documentation
- Follow all local, state, and corporate health, sanitation, and infection control requirements
- Report food service concerns or kitchen inspection issues, with a plan for correction
- Help train team members on daily kitchen sanitation practices
What We’re Looking For
- One to two years’ experience in a similar position preferred.
- Supervisory experience in dealing with older adults and their food needs preferred.
- One to two years of similar food service experience preferred
- Working knowledge of food safety and sanitation regulations
- ServSafe certification, or ability to complete an approved course
- Supervisory experience with older adults’ food needs preferred
- Ability to prepare and serve a wide variety of foods skillfully
- High school diploma/GED or equivalent preferred
- Reliable attendance and ability to work with minimal supervision
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs occasionally and 35 lbs regularly, with frequent pushing, pulling, bending, walking, reaching, and stooping
- Annual verification of a negative TB skin test
- Availability to work weekends, evenings, and holidays as needed
- Positive, team-oriented attitude
Why Iris Memory Care?
Our residents deserve more than a meal — they deserve food made with care by someone who understands how much it matters. At Iris, you’ll be part of a close-knit team that treats residents like family.
Apply today. Our residents can’t wait.
Iris Memory Care is an equal opportunity employer.