Position Title: Coordinator, Food Production
Department: Food & Nutrition Services
Purpose: Coordinates the provision of high quality and appropriate food service to meet the nutritional requirements for age groups from pediatric to the elderly. Customers include acute care patients, visitors and employees. Oversees food preparation and service of written menu. Maintains records for meal census. Orders supplies and groceries based on written menus and within budget principals. Oversees the storage, preparation and service of food ensuring that sanitary principles are adhered to. Oversees the training of employees to various shifts and assists the CNO in completing skill rosters for employees to ensure adequate training has been provided. Assists CNO in controlling costs within the approved budget.
Report To: Chief Nursing Officer
Supervisory Responsibility: Guidance: The job requires the provision of occasional guidance and training to others. The job does not have formal or official supervisory responsibilities.
Materials Responsibility: Limited: Work requires limited responsibility for material resources. Examples of resources could include supplies, equipment, inventories, small budgets, and other similar material assets. The employee has a limited amount of control over these resources. The cost of errors is also limited in terms of damage, waste or financial loss. Problems associated with material resources are not complex. The volume of resources may vary, but the level of difficulty in dealing with these resources is uncomplicated.
Key Relationship: Co-workers/Health System Employees, General Public/Visitors/Volunteers, Patients, Families, and Significant Others, Physicians/Medical Office Staff.
POSITION SPECIFICATION
Education: 2 year college program or equivalent experience
Special Training: Food Managers Certification Course
Training Preferred: Supervisory experience and familiar with food production methods preferred.
Experience: More than 1 year experience required.
Interpersonal Skills: Interaction is with a variety of people. These may be fellow employees, customers, the public or others outside the organization. Communications are of limited difficulty. Interactions usually involve short, straightforward exchanges of information. The job requires a limited amount of interpersonal skills. Interactions are non-stressful encounters and dealing with uncomplicated problem situations.
Physical Demands: Moderate Intensity: Work requires moderate physical exertion. Forces exerted are equivalent to lifting between 10 and 25 pounds. Job requirements for manual dexterity or physical manipulation are also moderate. The need for physical stamina and endurance is of some significance. The degree of physical strain produced on the job is moderately taxing, and is fatiguing. Work could involve a considerable amount of walking, standing, a confining or tiring work position, or constant periods of sitting in one position where freedom does not exist to walk about. The position exceeds these moderate intensity demands routinely, 36-70% of the time.
Working Conditions: There is limited exposure to highly adverse environmental conditions including physical hazards, health and safety risks, and otherwise undesirable characteristics in the environment. Personal risks require safety equipment or precautions to be followed closely but the time the employee may be exposed to these conditions is limited to 10% or less of the work day.
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