Job Overview
Employment Type
Full-time
Compensation
Type:
Salary
Rate:
Range $109,900.00 - $142,120.00
Work Schedule
Standard Hours
Day Shifts
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plan
Employee wellness programs
Training and development opportunities
Flexible Schedule
Job Description
Kaiser Permanente is a leading integrated managed care consortium, renowned for providing comprehensive and high-quality healthcare services. It operates through a large network of hospitals, medical offices, and health plans across the United States, emphasizing prevention, wellness, and clinical excellence. Known for its innovative approach to healthcare delivery, Kaiser Permanente combines cutting-edge technology with personalized patient care to improve health outcomes and enhance the patient experience. The organization is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment, ensuring equity, diversity, and respect for all employees and patients alike.
This managerial role within Kaiser Permanente is focused on overseeing the clinical nutri... Show More
This managerial role within Kaiser Permanente is focused on overseeing the clinical nutri... Show More
Job Requirements
- Bachelors or masters degree in nutrition, health sciences and administration, or directly related field
- minimum four years of experience in food service or a directly related field
- minimum three years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports
- minimum two years of experience with PC based tools, Microsoft Office applications, web-based applications
- Food Protection Manager Certification from an accepted certifying organization
- Registered Dietitian certification from recognized commission
- ability to work full time, 40 hours per week
- willingness to work day shifts including weekends
- ability to travel up to 50% of the time
- compliance with Kaiser Permanente's code of conduct and ethical standards
- adherence to privacy, confidentiality, and regulatory requirements
- strong ethical behavior and organizational policy compliance
- access to protected health information and handling of sensitive information according to regulations
Job Qualifications
- Bachelors or masters degree in nutrition, health sciences and administration, or directly related field
- minimum four years of experience in food service or a directly related field
- additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement
- relevant masters degrees may be substituted for a portion of the work experience requirements
- minimum three years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports
- minimum two years of experience with PC based tools, Microsoft Office applications, web-based applications
- Food Protection Manager Certification from Trust20 or Food Protection Manager Certification from My Food Service License or Food Protection Manager Certification from AAA Food Handler or ServSafe Manager Certification or International Certified Food Safety Manager from National Registry of Food Safety Professionals or Food Protection Manager Certification from Learn 2 Serve or Food Manager Certification from Always Food Safe or Food Protection Manager Certification from Responsible Training or Food Protection Manager Certification from State Food Safety or Food Safety Manager Certification from National Registry of Food Safety Professionals or Food Protection Manager Certification from World Food Safety Organization or Food Manager Certification from EduClasses
- Registered Dietitian from Commission on Dietetic Registration or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Certification from Commission on Dietetic Registration
Job Duties
- Provides developmental opportunities for others
- builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships
- solicits and acts on performance feedback
- works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement
- pursues professional growth
- develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities
- supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations
- leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends
- fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams
- delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate
- provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope
- encourages development and consideration of options in decision making
- manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items
- oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement
- ensures all policies and procedures are followed
- aligns team efforts
- builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results
- determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented
- resolves escalated issues as appropriate
- sets standards and measures progress
- fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines
- obtains and distributes resources
- removes obstacles that impact performance
- identifies and addresses improvement opportunities
- guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly
- influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives
- manages the sanitation and maintenance of food services work areas and equipment by holding teams accountable for tracking and reviewing cleaning and sanitizing logs to ensure duties are performed according to company standards, monitoring equipment problems, and reviewing replacement requests to ensure such needs do not exceed budget
- guides vendor contract management by leading strategic communications with vendors to ensure vendor contracts are in place
- establishing relationships with vendors to ensure they are providing services consistent with vendor agreements or regulatory compliance standards
- and overseeing vendor metrics to ensure service delivery is compliant, safe, sanitary, in support of patient satisfaction
- manages the procurement, storage, and distribution of food by providing guidance to teams receiving, verifying, and storing of delivery items, managing inventory usage to ensure it is within established utilization levels, ensuring procurement costs remain within budget
- leading the team to maintain stock levels at food stations and in work areas, updating inventory with out-of-stock items
- and monitoring loss and decay logs due to inaccurate labeling and storage of perishable items, and updating the procurement budgets as needed
- manages the food recall by documenting and managing the return of food that has been recalled or is at risk of contamination
- and communicating or advising others on communications to patients and staff about ongoing updates or actions being taken to resolve food recall issues
- manages the preparation and production of meal plans by guiding team to prepare menu/meal items by assisting cooking staff, according to standardized recipes and/or directions
- providing support for other team members
- overseeing regulatory and budget adherence
- creating safety checks to ensure food is prepared in a safe manner per food preparation standards and is safe for patients
- and leading the team assembling patient meal trays and cafeteria and/or catering services, and overseeing the team through the catering of food items according to scheduled mealtimes
- supports emergency planning by contributing to the development of workplans that ensure food supply, delivery, and services are efficiently maintained during times of crisis or emergency
- guides the customer and patient care experience by monitoring team members customer/patient interactions, addresses highly sensitive service recovery issues
- providing guidance across unit-based teams to support food service and delivery operations that help the business unit deliver quality care
- analyzing escalated or high-priority patient responses to quality control survey questions, guiding the submission of relevant quality control reporting, demonstrating advanced knowledge of metrics used to assess quality control and quality performance and how they affect other fields across the subfunction
- leading efforts to reduce critical control points to acceptable levels and improve the care experience
- and leading the implementation of quality control initiatives on the team and prioritizing improvement recommendations for customer and patient services
Job Qualifications
Experience
Expert Level (7+ years)
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