Nutrition Services Lead

Leadership In Nutrition Services

Provide hands on leadership, training and responsibility for employees and work unit. Responsible for day to day operations of assigned work unit and providing communication with management on unit performance, timekeeping, and opportunities. May include responsibility of overseeing food production, recipe development and quality control. Attentive to details of menus and special/restricted diets as applicable to assigned area. Oversees sanitation of equipment and work area. Demonstrates the Beaumont standards in providing excellent patient and family centered care and services.

Essential Functions

1. Coordinate shift activities to include produce daily staffing roster, adjust staff assignments as needed, monitor EPIC tracker for room cleans, equipment requests, and patient transports.
2. Responsible for overseeing the production of high quality products following standardized recipes, provides input for menu development. Able to identify and address variances per established standards.
3. Prioritizes and directs activities of employees in assigned area. Prepares schedule, daily assignments and coordinates with leadership to optimize staffing. Orients, trains and coaches staff. Applies corporate and department policies consistently and equitably. Provides input into evaluation and discipline of staff.
4. Works with staff to promote teamwork. Addresses concerns. Mediates disputes with assistance of management. Utilizes hospital resources as necessary.
5. Maintains safety and sanitation standards in work area. Identifies and addresses variances and takes remedial action as needed. Upholds/enforces policies and procedures including but not limited to safety, sanitation and compliance.
6. Responsible that assigned work area and employees are complaint with hospital standards and survey/inspection ready at all times.
7. Actively participates in safety initiatives and risk mitigating measures where appropriate and completes all position and unit safety related competencies and requirements on a timely basis.
8. Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required:

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and communicate effectively in English.
• 3 years of relevant experience as a Nutrition Services Leader in culinary/food production areas.

Preferred:

• Associate's Degree in food service related area.
• 2 years of relevant experience in food service for all patient and retail food service areas outside of culinary/food production.
• 1 year of relevant experience in management for all patient and retail food service areas outside of culinary/food production.
• 1 year of relevant experience with therapeutic diets for patient services areas.

About Corewell Health

As a team member at Corewell Health, you will play an essential role in delivering personalized health care to our patients, members, and our communities. We are committed to cultivating and investing in YOU. Our top-notch teams are comprised of collaborators, leaders and innovators that continue to build on one shared mission statement - to improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope. Join a nationally recognized health system with an ambitious vision of continued advancement and excellence.

Leads working at sites with collective bargaining agreements in place will not perform bargaining unit work.