Food Kitchen Supervisor

MENTOR Adult Day Health, a member of the Sevita family, provides day programs for elders with complex medical or rehabilitative needs. This allows seniors to obtain quality healthcare while remaining active and involved in the community and continuing to live in their own homes. Our programs are staffed with qualified, experienced licensed nurses and caregivers who are trained to provide individual assistance to each person we serve.

OUR MISSION AND PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

The MENTOR Network is a mission-based organization dedicated to providing high quality services to those we serve. Therefore, to deliver on our mission, The Network expects every employee to perform his or her job first and foremost in accordance with the Company’s mission.

Summary

Responsible for providing the day to day direction to kitchen staff, overseeing food preparation, and distribution of meals to persons served; maintains cleanliness of the kitchen; ensures all quality assurance tasks are completed; ensures compliance with local, state and federal regulations as well as company policies.

Essential Job Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below:

• Trains staff on standard concepts, practices and procedures for cooking and dietary food preparation.
• Prepares all menu items using established policies and procedures.
• Ensures presentation and preparation of all menu items adhere to established standards, prescribed diet plan, and are delivered at acceptable temperatures
• Communicates any changes to the established menu according to company policy.
• Monitors and ensures special diets, meal plans, and portions are provided according to menu guidelines.
• Develops and maintains adequate food/supplies, orders as required.
• Inspect supplies, equipment, or work areas to ensure all equipment is cleaned and operating.
• Completes daily quality assurance checks including, temperature logs, quat logs, dish machine logs, water temperatures and any other quality checks required by state or local health departments and food temperature logs.
• Ensures high standards of sanitation, cleanliness and safety are maintained throughout the kitchen areas at all times, in compliance with established standards.
• May oversee full-sized kitchen, in which meals are cooked and prepared on-site.
• Ensures all preventative maintenance services are conducted on kitchen equipment in accordance with established standards.
• Reports any hazardous conditions, equipment, accidents and incidents to supervisor.
• Adheres to policy requiring the timely reporting of consumer and/or employee injuries evidenced by his/her attendance at orientation and annual mandatory education programs.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

Supervises assigned personnel including performance evaluations, scheduling, orientation and training. Makes recommendations or decisions regarding employee hires, transfers, promotions, salary changes, discipline, terminations and similar actions. Resolves personnel problems within position responsibilities.

Minimum Knowledge And Skills Required By The Job

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job:

Education And Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Two years’ experience in food service industry.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
  
  

Certificates, Licenses, And Registrations

• ServSafe Certification
• Allergen Certification
• Other certifications as required by local jurisdiction.
  
  

Other Skills And Abilities

• N/A
  
  

Other Requirements

• N/A
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Medium Work. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
  
  

Americans With Disabilities Act Statement

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined on a case by case basis via the interactive process.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.

We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law