Position: Dietary Aide
Schedule: Full-Time | 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
- Ability to pass a fitness-for-duty physical
- Ability to pass a criminal background check
- Ability to pass a drug test
- Employment references as required by a licensed residential care facility
What We Do
Havenwood of Minnetonka is a Minneapolis–St. Paul-area senior living community offering a continuum of rental living and care options for older adults. Residents can choose independent living, assisted living, enhanced assisted living, and memory care, supported by wellness programming, social activities, dining, hospitality, and on-campus access to higher levels of care. The community is managed by LCS, a senior living services provider.
