Food Service Manager - Patient Services
Aramark
Tewksbury, MA 01876
Posted 9 months ago
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Job Type(s)
Full Time
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Industry
Customer Service
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Job Description
Food Service Manager - Patient Services
Job Description
Aramark Healthcare+ is searching for a Food Service Manager of Patient Services at Tewksbury Hospital, a 370 bed facility located in Tewksbury, MA. The Food Service Manager of Patient Services plans, coordinates and manages patient food service activities. Leads patient service supervisors and staff to ensure meals are properly prepared, plated,delivered to patients, rounding on patients/departments, management of the diet office/call center, host/hostess program,safety/sanitation, operation of the tray line, the room service program, schedulingand other duties assigned. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with other departments to provide a unified approach to patient/resident care.
Job Responsibilities
- Manages patient food service activities and implements/maintains programs to drive overall patient satisfaction
- Delivers strong operational performance by executing against Aramark Healthcare and regulatory agency standards and programs, continually monitoring operations, and completing assessments and necessary action plans to provide optimal nutrition care and meal service to patients/residents.
- Drives patient satisfaction and maintains client relationships through rounding. Ensures compliance to food safety, sanitation, and overall workplace safety standards.
- Supervises, staffs, trains, conducts applicable rounding and manages the performance of the food service supervisors, diet office, kitchen, tray line or room service program and patient meal delivery staff, including applicable rounding.
- Serves asliaison between the dietetics staff and food servicedepartments.
- Recognizes and adopts activities appropriate to the specific needs of the patient/resident population and demonstrates knowledge of specific issues directly related to age of patient population
- Coordinates activities related to menu distribution and other menu-related issues, and facilitate operations related to production, distribution and service of food to ensure optimal nutrition care of patients/residents.
- Manages and controls resources and materials to ensure quality, adequacy of supply and cost control within budgetary guidelines.
At Aramark, developing new skills and doing what it takes to get the job done make a positive impact for our employees and for our customers. In order to meet our commitments, job duties may change or new ones may be assigned without formal notice.
Qualifications
- Requires at least 1-2 year experience in a food service supervisor or management role.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Healthcare patient services management experience required.
- Experience managing, motivating and engaging a large workforce.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs required.
- Excellent interpersonal, customer services and organizational skills required.
- Nutrition education and/or background preferred.
- ServSafe Certification is a plus.
- Experience managing a union workforce preferred
- Bi-lingual Spanish speaking is desired
- NOTE: This client location requires all individuals working on site to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before start date.
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