Dietary Service Manager / Dietary Supervisor
Company: Altus Community Healthcare
Location: Livingston
Posted on: February 16, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description Description: Summary Dietary
Service Manager is responsible for organizing, developing, and
directing overall operations for nutrition services department in
accordance with current applicable federal, state, and local
standards, guidelines, and regulations. Essential Duties &
Responsibilities Support daily department operations to ensure
service expectations are met with food quality standards, food
safety guidelines, and inventory levels. Provide leadership with
staff and facility regarding department responsibilities and tasks.
Establish effective communication with interdisciplinary team,
patients, family members, and facility employees. Support training
experience for all new hires. Monitor daily processes via forms and
audits to best support budget guidelines. Maintain records for
inspections, quality programs, and audit reviews. Communicate with
dietitian regarding diet order changes, specialty diets,
documentation needs. Maintain kitchen/ dietary area in a safe,
orderly, and clean manner. In coordination with dietitian,
formulate menus to determine and ensure that basic dietary and
nutritional guidelines are met, and costs are contained. Supervise
the procurement of food, paper, chemical and other supplies to
include implementation of first-in and first-out rotation system
for all food items. Responsible for monitoring budgeted costs to
ensure that guidelines set are being followed. Must be able to
supply budget information for planning future budgets. Makes
recommendations for the development of effective data collection
and evaluation systems to identify opportunities to improve the
safety and efficiency in delivery of food services to the patient.
Works with administration in monitoring compliance of the staff to
prevent cross contamination relating to the delivery of food
services in the facility. Performs the required monitoring tests on
equipment in the food prep area according the timeframe and process
of the state’s food handling standards. Performs random
observations of nursing staff compliance to the preparation and
serving of food trays. Performs daily and/or monthly checks of
stored food according to facility policy, checking for expiration
dates and the continued integrity of the food container. Additional
Job Duties as assigned by Administration, Dietician, and/or CEO.
Requirements: Qualifications Education & Experience High school
diploma or equivalent. Prior experience or training in dietary
management. Language/Math/Reasoning Ability Ability to read and
comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively
present information in one on one and small group situations to
customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of
measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and
interpret bar graphs. Ability to apply common sense understanding
to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram
form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete
variables in standardized situation. Good communication skills
Computer Skills Basic computer skills CERTIFICATE/LICENSES. Holds
Food Manager Certificate from state accredited program which has at
a minimum 14 hours of course work in food handling and preparation
and has successfully completed a food safety examination.
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