Culinary Support Specialist – Memory Care

Maplewood Senior Living • Yarmouth, MA

7h • Onsite

About The Position

Maplewood Senior Living is a state-of-the-art, forward-thinking senior living provider, offering a home-like, luxury environment for residents. The Culinary Support Specialist is part of the Memory care team and plays a lead role assisting with kitchen and dining room operations on small home model memory care floors, ensuring a high-quality culinary experience for residents. This role emphasizes both the preparation and presentation of food as well as fostering a warm, comforting, engaging, nurturing, home-like environment. The specialist demonstrates a passion for the kitchen and has deep understanding of and patience for working with individuals with cognitive impairments, ensuring a high-quality culinary experience with a focus on food safety, dietary needs, and kitchen compliance.

Requirements

• Strong organizational and multitasking capability.
• High school diploma or equivalency required.
• One-year experience in kitchen and dining room operations, preferably in a healthcare or senior living setting.
• ServSafe upon hire or acquire during on-boarding trainings.
• Compassionate, patient, and empathetic approach that memory care residents require.
• Basic cooking skills and knowledge of dietary requirements for seniors.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and build positive relationships with residents and staff.
• Commitment to high-quality service and food safety standards.
• Oral Comprehension and Expression - Must be able to convey and understand information and ideas to residents in English.
• Must work well in stressful, high-pressure situations.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the primary point of contact between the memory care floors and the main kitchen and culinary team, ensuring seamless communication and food service operations.
• Coordinating and facilitating cooking-related activities for residents, such as baking cookies, making smoothies, and other culinary experiences.
• Creating a warm, inviting dining atmosphere and ensuring the culinary experience is top-notch for our memory care residents.
• Owning and overseeing both the front and back of house kitchen and dining room operations on the memory care floors to ensure cleanliness, organization, and efficiency.
• Collaborating with Memory Care and Culinary leaders to ensure mealtimes and culinary activities meet company standards.
• Assisting residents during meals and culinary experiences in the kitchens/dining rooms.
• Assisting with the flow of food and meals from the main kitchen to memory care dining areas.
• Ensuring kitchens and dining rooms are fully stocked with necessary supplies.
• Liaise with the main kitchen to order and replenish supplies as needed, ensuring no disruption to the culinary experience of the residents.
• Conduct regular inventory checks and maintain stock levels accordingly.
• Setting and clearing tables before and after meals.
• Maintaining cleanliness and organization in the kitchen and dining areas, including cleaning up after meals and preparing for subsequent meals.
• Recording food temperatures and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards.

Benefits

• Competitive wages
• Flexible shifts
• Growth opportunities
• Bonus & incentive programs
• Competitive Benefits Package: including medical, dental, vision, 401K match, company paid time-off, life insurance policy, insurance deductibles and voluntary Aflac insurance for our full-time employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees