Job Details

Dining Service Director

Find your joy here, at Villa Santa Barbara, a Sonida Senior Living community! We offer a comprehensive benefit package to include competitive wage/salary, health and dental insurance, 401k with company match & much more!

Villa Santa Barbara, a premier retirement community in Santa Barbara, CA, provides quality care to residents in an ASSISTED LIVING community.

What we offer you:

• Cutting edge technology to enhance the lives of our residents and make your job easier and more effective.
• Advanced EHR Technologies - automated care assessments eliminating busy work, helping you deliver better care
• Sage - Improve call light response time and improvement to service and care
• Company support for educational and learning opportunities
• Paid referral programs for Team Member and Resident referrals
• Medical, dental, vision, and life/disability insurances
• 401k retirement savings offering a discretionary match determined each year based on company performance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Dependent Care and FSA saving accounts
• PTO available day one
• Paid Training

Dining Services Director Responsibilities include:

• Conducts inventory, purchasing, storing and preparation of food according to the provided menus and regulations.
• Establishes and maintains procedures to meet safety and sanitation standards.
• Provide leadership and supervision of dietary staff employees including hiring, evaluating, and recommending pay raises of employees.
• Establishes and maintains records/receipts regarding dietary operations. Submits purchase invoices and receipts to the appropriate staff for processing to include coding as requested.
• Orders all supplies and maintains inventory control.

Qualifications:

• Two years' experience in a similar position preferred.
• Enjoy providing exceptional customer service and care to our senior residents.

Other:

• This position oversees a culinary team, dishwashers, and dining room servers to provide three meals per day seven days a week in a restaurant-style setting for up to approximately 126 Residents.
• The Dining Services Director will be responsible for hiring, training, monitoring, and supporting staff; and at times it will be necessary for the Dining Services Director to cover cooking, serving, or dishwashing shifts in the event that coverage cannot be coordinated with the staff or until a new hire can be secured.

Behaviors:

• Required:
• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
• Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
• Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
• Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject
• Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Motivations:

• Required:
• Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization