FNS Lead – Food Nutritional Services, Full-time, Variable Morning and Evening Shifts

Cedars-Sinai • Marina del Rey, CA

13d • $25 - $37 • Onsite

About The Position

Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital and its staff aim to exceed the expectations of our patients, their families and the community with a service-oriented attitude. We seek excellence, courtesy, teamwork, respect, communication and enthusiasm in our future colleagues. If you are looking for exciting career opportunities with growth potential, come and join the team at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital!

Requirements

• Full-time
• Variable Morning and Evening Shifts

Responsibilities

• Responsible for day-to-day operations of nutrition service personnel, ensuring efficient service delivery.
• Utilize Nutrition Software and maintain nutrition databases, including managing vendor relationships and updating the USDA database.
• Collaborate with the culinary team to develop recipes and implement daily menu changes.
• Provide training to nutrition service personnel in accordance with hospital policies and procedures.
• Supervise patient meal service, ensuring timely processing of diet orders, tray line accuracy, and adjustments based on physician-ordered therapeutic menus, while monitoring the culinary team's production and quality standards.
• Manage ordering and inventory responsibilities.
• Deliver nutrition education to patients when clinical dietitians are unavailable.
• Act as a liaison between operations and clinical dietitians to enhance patient interactions and optimize resource utilization.
• Collect and present performance improvement data to hospital committees.
• Participate in patient experience meetings and share team insights to enhance meal satisfaction.
• Organize and collaborate on various nutrition service projects to continually improve services.
• Monitor and support staff in adherence to policies and procedures, including communicating new updates with the team.
• Assist in monthly nutrition department meetings and in-services to promote quality service and continuous team improvement.
• Support CNM on Nutrition software and perform menu editing as directed by the Registered Dietitian and Food Service Director, staying up-to-date with software and functions used to enhance employee workflow.
• Collaborate with the culinary team on recipe testing and changes to patient menus options to address patient feedback.
• Ensure food safety, maintain kitchen clean, neat and organized during food preparation, service, and closing.
• Train diet clerks as needed with new employee orientation, task analysis for each position, receiving and restocking of goods from the nutrition formulary.
• Create helpful materials and visuals for food service staff to use during meal production and when using new equipment or software.
• Act as a team lead to include overseeing the work of others, assigning or allocating work to the team, and ensuring tasks are completed according to deadlines and quality standards.

Benefits

• NEW 9 story Hospital scheduled for May 2027 – state of the art and double the size!
• Amazing Medical, Retirement and comprehensive benefits!
• Tuition Assistance Plans!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed