Dining Manager - Episcopal Homes of Minnesota

Dining Manager

Episcopal Homes of Minnesota is a leader in senior care services for 130 years. We offer homes and services for people in Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, and Skilled Care centers in the Midway area of St. Paul. We complement our homes with a home care service, foundation, a management company and a robust campus life program that provides a fitness center, pool, theater, 1st class dining room, pub and special events.

Job Summary

A Green House home is a homestyle service and meals are arranged for, prepared, and served by versatilely trained care team members. Green House homes have menu cycles, flexibility for always available options when the menu item is undesirable, and meal service and table service is about connecting to one another with rich conversation, stories, and slow, community-oriented process.

The Green House Homes Dining Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of dining in the Green House Homes to ensure Shahbazim have processes for food procurement, menu planning, and budget review. In addition, this role oversees training in safe food storage, handling and service that aligns with the experience of a family style home, and supports the food coordinator Shahbazim role in eliciting elder engagement and feedback as well as reviewing the house for quality assurance review ensuing meaningful food experiences in the home, access to safe and high quality, safely stored, prepared and served food with emphasis on honoring elder choices and preferences, engagement in determining the meal routines, and staying within a budget.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

• Full Time: 40 Hours. typical work week is Monday through Friday and occasional weekend

Salary: starting from $55,000yr+, experience compensated!!!

Benefits we offer:

• health/dental/vision insurance
• PTO
• 401k / matching
• tuition reimbursement
• referral program

Essential Functions:

• Developing and improving processes for food ordering and delivery, storing, preparing, and serving in a way that is achievable by Shahbazim team members (i.e.: simple meals, 30 min prep to table, process for pre prep work. Picture menus which demonstrate plating and skills).
• Working with dietician to ensure menus are nutritionally balanced and complete for a cycle with process for documenting changes, texture and necessary modifications, and substitution.
• Eliciting elder feedback on menu items through the food coordinator role and direct connections.
• Training all new team members on house meal processes and practices, safe food storage, handling, and service, and in servicing team members in homes when QA gaps are identified in any step of the food experience.
• Role modeling at house meetings with elders to collaborate and solution for menu concerns, quality concerns, or service and experience concerns.
• Periodic in house in services to teach shahbaz new skills and model engaging elders in mealtime experiences.
• Ordering food for the homes based on their individual ordering and monitoring budget by house.
• Developing, training, and overseeing in-house QA with food coordinator role

Culinary Manager Qualifications/Skills:

• People management, fostering teamwork, and giving feedback
• Planning and multi-tasking
• Listening to elders and direct team members
• Coaching for collaborative solutioning to challenges
• Conflict resolution
• Prior food production experience
• ServSafe Certified

"At Episcopal Homes of Minnesota, we value a diverse, inclusive workforce and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to an individual's race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws."