Job Summary

Come work as a Food Service Supervisor with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!
Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Health Care Food Services Supervisor to join the Food Services team working out of Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, BC. The successful candidate will be self motivated and able to work both independently and in a team setting. They will also have a strong work ethic that allows them to oversee daily food services to ensure a safe and respectful environment for staff, patients, residents, families, and visitors.

Are you looking for a new employment opportunity that challenges you and offers a better quality of life? Apply today to join our passionate team dedicated to servicing the community!
This is a CASUAL/ON-CALL posting. We are always recruiting to maintain a robust pool of casual staff. This is a unionized environment/position and all vacancies are posted internally for current employees to apply.
Working more hours as a casual staff member will build your seniority hours; this will open more opportunities for you when applying for internal vacancies.

As a Health Care Food Service Supervisor with VCH you will:

• Ensure diet orders are compliant and meet the provisions for nutritional care as determined by Clinical Nutrition for inpatients and outpatients using the nutrition software program.
• Be the liaison between Clinical Nutrition and Food Services, visit patients to obtain diet related information regarding nutritional and therapeutic diet needs, and in consultation with the Clinical Dietitian as required;
  • identify patient/resident food preference/food tolerance/food acceptance;
  • chart activities in patient/resident medical record such as meal intake, diet and diet-related information;
  • input and/or updates patient/resident diet and diet-related information into a computerized system.
• Oversee the daily food service in assigned areas including supervising designated staff, maintaining and updating manual and computerized records such as the staffing schedule, performing related administrative duties and maintaining food standards by participating in quality assurance activities.
• Promote and maintain excellent customer relations and effective on-going communication with all levels of staff.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Graduation from a recognized two-year program in Food Service Supervision plus one year’s recent, related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Food Safe Certificate 1.
  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Ability to supervise.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.