Food Service Supervisor Indeed

A place you can hang your hat and call home. We value the power of diversity and inclusion! Connecting Care is a merging of service groups into one cohesive company. We provide care, hospitality, and operational services in seniors’ residences, as well as develop seniors’ communities.

The Opportunity:

The Food Service Supervisor role will be serving the community of Medicine Hat Care Community in Medicine Hat. The role is responsible for ensuring top resident care is priority, with a high level of focus in time management, hospitality, and supervisory skills. You will be required to cook resident meals at least twice a week.

Foundational knowledge and experience to grow from:

• You are a patient exceptional hands-on Chef and leader –team player, motivator, coach, mentor, and professional role model
• Preparation and organization of all meals following the menu cycle ensuring excellent quality and taste
• Preparing meals for Residents with modified diets
• Able to coordinate various business activities within the vision, objectives, and guiding philosophy of Connecting Care
• A strong personal commitment to Person Directed Care approaches
• Current familiarity with the Eden Alternative Philosophy and the Domains of Well-Being is preferred
• Strives to attain excellence in Resident, family member and employee care partner satisfaction
• Friendly with a sense of humor and the utmost respect for all persons
• Knowledge of supportive living services, assessment, and care planning
• Maintains ongoing compliance with appropriate local, provincial, and federal regulatory standards
• Demonstrates strength in building partnerships with Residents, family members, employee care partners, volunteers, external care partners and the community at large to ensure the vibrancy of our community
• Flexible, willingness to prioritize and re-adjust routines, open to change for the benefit of the community
• Strong leadership, supervisory, organizational, communication, and time and resource management skills
• Excellent facilitation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills, deal effectively with difficult or crisis situations
• Providing services in a manner that demonstrates the principles of appropriate choice, dignity, privacy, independence, and individuality in accordance with the Mission, Vision, and Core Values
• Engaging in meaningful conversations with Residents and their loved ones (if applicable) to learn more about their life story and encourage them to become involved in the community
• Ensuring that services are provided in accordance with best practices, our Well-Being Strategies, quality improvement guidelines, and regulations/standards
• Provides leadership and ensure commitment of person directed services within the team is achieved
• Manage, coordinate & oversee care partner planning and service time scheduling for the food services area
• Planning and the delegation of service assignments assuring effective scheduling
• Ongoing learning to expand knowledge through attending educational workshops
• Ensuring all Food Service (indoor/outdoor) areas are clean according to required standards and checklists
• Maintaining records required by the Community, required auditors, and funders as required
• Identifies/Reports any health, safety, or maintenance issues
• Promotes and encourages an atmosphere of excellent hospitality service within the community
• Always maintains a high level of professionalism and confidentiality of the community
• Maintain appropriate levels of certification
• Performs other services/tasks/duties related to employee care partner role as assigned

Skills and key deliverables that will take you further:

• Grade 12 Diploma or recognized equivalent is required
• Must be able to read, write and speak fluently in English
• Formal Food Service training (Red Seal from an approved Food Service School) and/or experience as a Sous Chef required
• Supervision/leadership/educator/facilitation/resolution/investigation experience required
• Food Safe Certificate
• First Aid and CPR

Why join our team?

• A competitive wage and vacation allotment
• Benefits – Health, Dental and Health Spending Account
• RRSP program with employer matching
• Looking for a happy corporate culture! The term staff is not used here, we are Employee Care Partners!

Thank you for applying. Please note only successful candidates will be contacted.