Friday, February 8, 2019

Food Service Supervisors and Diet Techs required at St. Paul`s Hospital






Apply to:     roat.lim@sodexo.com. 


Job Description
Job Summary
We are currently recruiting for the following position(s):
Position Title: Food Service Supervisor / Diet Technician
Location: Vancouver, BC
Salary: $22.00 /hour
Schedule(s): Part time/Casual
Flexibility in availability may be required as schedule is subject to change based on operational requirements. The operation is open 6:00am to 8:30pm, 7 days a week.
Description:
The Food Service Supervisor is responsible for co-coordinating food production, meal preparation and ensuring all staff maintains the standards for quality and service at all times. The Food Service Supervisor also ensures that safe work practices are followed, and all sanitation standards are met.
As a Diet Technician, you will be responsible for maintaining patient diet information in Computrition and ensuring appropriate and accurate nutritional profiles. You will also have a role in supervising kitchen staff and managing food service activities.
General Duties:
Food Service Supervisor:
• Provides work direction, supervision and on-going training to all assigned staff in a manner which establishes and maintains high staff morale
• Assists in scheduling, payroll and performance management as assigned• Promotes and maintains excellent customer relations and effective on-going communication with all levels of staff
• Places orders, maintains accurate and timely inventories and provides daily reports related to cost control.
• Assist with planning and executing special assignments and any required follow-up
• Conducts weekly sanitation inspections and establishes corrective action.
• Conducts and participates in staff meetings
• Ensures that employees work in compliance with established safe work practices and procedures
• Ensures that equipment and safe and healthy work conditions are maintained in their assigned area
• Supports the Safety Program and reports all injuries and hazardous conditions immediately
• Other tasks, duties and assignments as directed by the Manager
Diet Technician:
• Oversees all patient nutrition information in Computrition
• Verifies patient diet order information according to prescribed patient care plan that includes proper food texture, patient food preferences and food allergies
• Writes therapeutic diets, sets up nourishments and marks menus as per guidelines
• Coordinates with food service production on patient needs and service requirements
• Acts as a liason between Clinical and Food Service areas
• Promotes and maintains excellent customer relations and effective on-going communication with all levels of staff and clients
• Supervises kitchen staff and food service activities
• Supports the Safety Program and reports all injuries and hazardous conditions immediately
• Performs clerical duties and assists with planning and executing special assignments
• Other tasks, duties and assignments as assigned by Manager
Selection Criteria:
- Diploma in Food and Nutrition Management or Degree in Dietetics (post-secondary students in relevant programs eligible)
- Eligibility for membership in CSNM. ONLY CANDIDATES WHO ARE ELIGIBLE CAN BE
CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION.
- Clinical nutrition knowledge an asset
- English proficiency, verbal and written
- HACCP, WHMIS training
- Current vaccinations
- Food Safe Certification
- Security Clearance

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

General Manager, FoodService, Vancouver - new opportunity



General Manager
 
Vancouver, BC
Your Contribution:
Grow your career with a company that shares your passion.   Our Healthcare Division is seeking a dynamic individual to fill the role of General Manager for our site located in Vancouver, BC.
In your new role, this  site  will require your excellent customer service, client management as well as an understanding of this environment.  This busy role supports long term care providing food service in this residence.  If you are looking for a new position that challenges you daily where you can use your excellent organizational skills, people management skills as well as food service expertise, this is your new role! 
At Sodexo we care and serving others is our purpose. This generates an authentic sense of pride for us. Improving the Quality of life for everyone we come into contact with is our North Star. If you want to catch the Sodexo Spirit then we have the position you are searching for. 
Accountabilities:
As the General Manager at our very busy Healthcare account, you will be responsible for overseeing a team of employees and successfully coordinating and directing on the floor food service activities. You will establish and maintain a solid and mutually beneficial business relationship including: high levels of client and customer satisfaction and account retention; strong employee relations; achievement of financial goals particularly around labour costs; and strategically develop efficiencies in the operation. You will report directly to the General Manager of the site.  
Growth and Development:
CSNM designation  is mandatory, experience working with acute and long term care facilities is mandatory
2-4  years working with operations, finance, inventory, financial statements experience at the managerial/supervisory level
Proven success in managing food services operations in a healthcare setting
Effective oral and written communication skills are needed
Management experience in a unionized environment
Strong ability to manage and promote a safe work environment and lead a safety culture
Effective planning, organizing, and time management skills
Excellent interpersonal skills
Ability to select and develop people
Ability to anticipate and solve problems
Value Behaviours:
Serving Clients and Customers
Integrity
Flexibility
Analysis and Decision Making
Quality Assurance and Safety
Diversity Awareness
Drive and Dependability
Who We Are:
Recognized as a strategic partner, Sodexo is the global leader in services that improve Quality of Life, an essential factor in individual and organizational performance. Operating in 80 countries, Sodexo serves 75 million consumers each day through its unique combination of On-site Services, Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services. Through its more than 100 services, Sodexo provides clients an integrated offering developed over 50 years of experience.  Sodexo’s success and performance are founded on its independence, its sustainable business model and its ability to continuously develop and engage its 420,000 employees throughout the world.
Our Advantages 
*A wide array of interesting jobs *Nationwide locations *Tremendous growth possibilities *Continuous learning opportunities *Incentive Plans *Rewards & Recognition *Employee Benefits *Flexible Time *Discounts *Committed to People Development *Promoting Individual and Collective Achievements *Diversity and Inclusion *Corporate Citizenship *Hunger Fighting Initiatives *Environmentally Conscious………… To find out more, come visit us at: www.sodexo.ca
Sodexo is committed to Employment Equity and Diversity. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of national origin, race, religion, ethnic group, age, disability, gender, sexual preference, sexual or gender identity, status as a veteran or any other federal, provincial or local protected class.
“We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities.  Accommodation is available on request from candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.”
*Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. *

To apply, please contact:
Michele Matheson, CCDP, CMP
Senior Recruiter, Western Canada
Sodexo Canada
Cell:604-345-4391

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

BC - DC Gerontology Network Workshop - Surrey - April 12th


 

 Gerontology Network Workshop 


Friday  April 12, 2019 
The Oasis Conference Room at Elim Village 
9067 160th Street, Surrey , BC 
(just off Highway #1 is Surrey - free parking! ) 

APPROVED FOR 3 CE POINTS FOR CSNM MEMBERS

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To Register:
Dietitians of Canada website 
  or      www.dietitians.ca/Learn/Events/Live-Events/BC---DC-Gerontology-Network-
Workshop.aspx: 

Join fellow RD’s & Food Managers who work in Health Care Communities throughout the
province of BC, for a day of learning & networking together. Through speakers & activities,
we aim to provide you with a day of learning & networking together.  Through speakers & activities we aim to provide you with a quality workshop to support you, build community with each other


BC - GN Agenda
8:30 – 9 am                    Registration/Light breakfast
9:00 am                          Welcome from GN Team of BC
9:15 – 10:30                   Professional updates with Q & A panel
  • DC update – (Lisa McKellar, Exec Director for BC)
  •  College of Dietitians of BC update - (Melanie Journoud, RD)
  •  BC Ministry of Health Dietitian – New Canada’s Food Guide and other initiatives
  •  Community Care Facilities Licensing - (Suvarna Rao, RD – Fraser Health)
10:30 – 10:45                 Coffee Break/Marie Taylor Award winner
10:45am – 12:00            Nutrition Care in the Butterfly Dementia Care Model
                                         – Lennie Iskender, RD       (1 CE)
12:00 – 1:00 pm             Lunch and Vendor Fair (win great prizes)
1:00 – 1:45 pm               Tour of Elim Village (25 acre Complete campus of care)
1:45 – 2:00 pm               Coffee Break
2:00 – 3:00                     Medical Cannabis: What do ‘weed’ need to know in LTC now that it’s legal -
                                        Medical Cannabis Resource Centre Inc -Terry Roycroft, Founder
                                        (1 CE point)
3:00 – 3:15                      Coffee Break/Networking
3:15 – 3:45                      PIC Tool for Nutritional Assessment: A Fraser Health Initiative
                                            – Flora Kwong, RD(1 CE point)
3:45 – 4:30                      Spark Session – be inspired by 5 different RD’s & their journey/stories
4:45 – 5 pm                     Evaluation & closing remarks

6:00 pm Optional Post workshop: Drinks/Dinner at Milestones at Guildford Town Center Mall

Pricing
                                                   GN Member                              Non-GN member
Early Bird    until March 1               $89                                        $119 (*early bird prize draw*)
Regular price  March 1 – April 12   $99                                        $129
Students/Interns                                $69                                        $ 69 p



The Dietitians of Canada Gerontology Network is a National network representing 550+ RD’s
working with Seniors in Health Care Communities across Canada. The GN acts as a resource
through the provision of education opportunities and evidenced based nutrition information
to support RD as they strive for excellence in the delivery of nutritional care to Residents.

Monday, February 4, 2019

FSS in Abbotsford Regional Hospital



POSITION:  FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR
Abbotsford Regional Hospital, Abbotsford, BC

OBJECTIVE:

The Food Service Supervisor is responsible for co-ordinating food production and ensuring that supervised staff maintains the standards for quality and service at all times. The Food Service Supervisor also ensures that safe work practices are followed and all sanitation standards are met.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Provides work direction, supervision and on-going training to all assigned staff in a manner which establishes and maintains high staff morale.
  • Assists in scheduling, payroll and performance management as assigned.
  • Promotes and maintains excellent customer relations and effective on-going communication with all levels of staff
  • Places orders, maintains accurate and timely inventories and provides daily reports related to cost control.
  • Assist with planning and executing special assignments and any required follow-up
  • Conducts weekly sanitation inspections and establishes corrective action.
  • Conducts and participates in staff meetings as assigned.
  • Ensures that employees work in compliance with established safe work practices and procedures.
  • Ensures that equipment and safe and healthy work conditions are maintained in their assigned area.
  • Supports the Safety Program and reports all injuries and hazardous conditions immediately.
  • Other tasks, duties and assignments as directed by the Manager.
  • Keep all information confidential.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
  • Diploma in Food and Nutrition Management or Degree in Dietetics.
  • Eligibility for membership in CSNM, (Successful candidate will require to enroll within a year of hiring date)
  • English proficiency, verbal and written.
  • HACCP, WHMIS training.
  • Food Safe Certificate I & II
  • Current vaccinations, TB screening test, Hep A & B, Flu shot.

APTITUDES:
  • Problem Solving, Planning, and Organizational Skills
  • Excellent Interpersonal and Team Building Skills
  • Effective Communicator
  • Ability to Select and Develop people
  • Appreciate and Manage Diversity

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume to jillian.conrod@sodexo.com