Position: Dietary Aide
Schedule: Full time 40 hours week. Weekends, holidays, and events as needed.
Pay: $18.00 per hour
Location: Essex, CT
Who we are:
Walk through our doors and see the difference in the future with senior living and care. Set against a beautiful 1,000-acre natural preserve and just minutes from the shoreline, Essex Meadows leads the way in comprehensive senior living in Connecticut. When you work at Essex Meadows, you have a front-row seat to the amazing life stories of the wisest people on earth. What's more, you are part of an extraordinary company-one that's investing in the future of senior living by investing in you. Don't just do a job. Be part of an extraordinary life!
You will enjoy:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Resident sponsored appreciation bonus
- Resident sponsored educational scholarships
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Employee assistance program
- Free electric vehicle charging stations
- Daily Pay – Work today, get paid today!
General Summary:
Essex Meadows is recruiting for a hospitality focused dietary aide to join our culinary team. This role provides full-scope, hands on serving functions within the skilled nursing facility.
Essential Job Duties:
- Prepares special feedings, nourishments, and snacks as ordered for service, including daily garnish.
- Verify ordered food items needed for meals are available and ready for service, including daily garnish.
- Covers, labels, dates and stores all food items.
- Maintains a well-stocked kitchen while rotating stock.
- Accurately sets up meal trays and dining room tables per tray ticket.
- Checks for accuracy of plated foods at time of service, adjusting as necessary.
- Clears dishes from tables during and after meal service.
- Returns soiled trays and service ware to dishwashing area via closed food cart.
- Removes and replaces soiled linens after each meal and delivers to laundry in proper bag supplied by laundry.
- Maintains a sanitary work area by following daily cleaning schedules and thoroughly cleaning and sanitizing work area after each meal
- Attends in-service training and education sessions as assigned.
- Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by management.
Qualifications:
- Ability to understand and follow instructions in English and communicate effectively.
- Experience waiting tables in a hotel, restaurant or club with fine dining preferred; will train.
- Ability to interpret and explain menu, refer, or answer questions, coordinate meal service process and understands requests.
- Ability to work in close cooperation with residents, guests, visitors, families, management and peers.
All new hires must be able to pass our preemployment screening process, which includes a fitness for duty physical, criminal background check, drug test and employment references as required by a licensed residential care facility. Some of the roles in our community also require that we ask about your vaccination status.
EEO Employer
Skills Required
- Ability to understand and follow instructions in English and communicate effectively
- Experience waiting tables in a hotel, restaurant, or club with fine dining
- Ability to interpret and explain menus, answer questions, coordinate meal service, and understand requests
- Ability to work cooperatively with residents, guests, visitors, families, management, and peers
- Pass a fitness-for-duty physical
- Pass a criminal background check
- Pass a drug test
- Provide employment references as required
What We Do
The Avalon of Lewis Center is a senior living community in Lewis Center, Ohio, focused on helping older adults enjoy a high quality of life with compassionate support. It offers assisted living, memory care through the Heartfelt Connections program for residents with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, and short-term respite care, alongside purpose-driven daily experiences designed to nurture residents’ mind, body, and spirit.
