Schlegel Villages Support Office is located in Kitchener, Ontario. This role provides support to Villages located throughout southern Ontario, and geographical home base of candidates is flexible but regular travel will be expected.

You can be you while being a part of our family.

At Schlegel Villages we are redefining elder care through innovation, village design and culture change, but we know the key to our Village success and our residents’ satisfaction is YOU and our teams.

We aspire to provide all members of our communities, including team members, with a life enriching experience. We are family owned and operated and we take our mission seriously: “to provide holistic health care in a home environment, located within an internal neighbourhood design that promotes a caring community with emphasis on optimal health and life purpose for each resident”.

We’d love to talk to you about what makes us different.

How Schlegel Villages supports our Team Members:

You can be you while being part of our Family!

• Competitive salary, and benefits;

• Significant opportunities for Growth and Development: Our Leaders come from within;

• Ongoing Team Member Appreciation incentives and generous rewards and recognition;

• Extended Health Benefits & Retirement Savings;

• Individualized Assistance for Team Member Education and Development;

• Loans and Scholarships to help our team members realize their greatest potential;

• Financial Hardship Support Program: Wilfred Schlegel Hope Fund;

• A Unique Family Culture: Every Person in Every Village is a branch of our Family Tree

Supported by the Senior Director of Hospitality and Food, the Hospitality and Food Specialist will provide operational oversight and mentorship to a dedicated group of Hospitality and Food leadership teams. The primary goal of the Hospitality and Food Specialist is to continually enhance the mealtime experience in all dining areas across the Village. They will serve as the first level of support for the assigned Village Hospitality and Food Leaders.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• be an experienced Hospitality and Food leader with proven leadership experience
• have the ability to lead through those you support
• demonstrate a passion for continually improving the dining experience while following the requirements of LTC and RHA Acts
• high competency working within the dietary technology programs – Mealsuite, PCC, etc.
• be excited to broaden your skills, knowledge and experience across our full continuum of mealtime experiences

It would be considered an asset if you also had:

• A degree in Nutrition and/or membership in Canadian Society of Nutrition Management and/or a Red Seal Chef certification and/or a degree in Hospitality

• Passion in being a servant leader who excels at growing and developing people as well as teams

• Demonstrates strengths-based leadership by identifying and using each person’s unique strengths to build trust, show compassion, provide stability, and create hope

• Effective collaboration skills to foster positive partnerships and teams that support shared accountability and decision making. Achieves results by working through leaders and using positive interpersonal skills

• Demonstrates a willingness to continuously learn and encourage learning in others. Models’ self-awareness, self-initiative and desire to grow for others.

• Positive advocate to lead change successfully through removing barriers, recognizing and celebrating successes.

• Capacity to problem solve with ability to think critically and conceptually in facilitating decisions and exercising judgement.

• Demonstrated ability to deal effectively with a high volume of competing priorities.

• Ability to work collaboratively with other department leaders and team members at all levels of the organization to create a team-oriented environment.

• Capacity to support the strategy of an integrated approach to continuous quality improvement initiatives.

• Capability to support applied research projects and the knowledge mobilization and implementation in partnership with the RIA (Research Institute of Aging).

Schlegel Villages is pleased to accommodate individual needs in accordance with the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA), within our recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any time throughout the recruitment process, please speak with the recruiter.

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Licenses & Certifications

Required

• Smart Serve Certificate
• Safe Food Handler

Preferred

• Culinary Management
• Chef - Red Seal Cert
• CSNM - CND Soc Nutrition