Resident Dining Lead

Life Care Services • Phoenix, AZ

24d • Onsite

About The Position

Acacia Health Center at Sagewood Senior Living Community is hiring a full-time Lead Diet Aide at its CMS 5-Star Rated facility in Northeast Phoenix. The health center supports skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care. The role pays $19–$21 per hour and offers a 40-hour workweek on a split schedule: 6:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. and 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. The position includes weekends and occasional holidays, with no late nights.

The Lead Diet Aide helps coordinate meal service and maintain dining rooms, service kitchens, satellite kitchens, and neighborhood kitchens. The role works with cooks and diet aides to support safe, timely, high-quality meal service and provides hospitality to residents, families, visitors, and guests. It also includes delegating tasks, maintaining accurate diet rosters and kitchen inventory, supporting special events and new systems, and helping train and develop staff.

Requirements

• At least two years of experience as a server and/or dietary aide in a senior living community or healthcare center.
• Ability to interpret and explain menus, answer or refer questions, coordinate the meal-service process, and understand requests.
• Ability to provide high levels of customer care with compassion.
• Comfort working weekends and occasional holidays and standing for extended periods.
• Arizona Food Handler Card required.
• Must pass a background check and drug screening.
• Flu vaccine required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the physical appearance and sanitation of dining rooms and service kitchens, including staff readiness, table settings, chairs, and floors.
• Communicate with cooks and diet aides to ensure food is prepared at the proper temperature, with appropriate quality, appearance, and consistency, and served on time.
• Delegate task assignments and assist with pre-meal preparation before each meal service.
• Ensure diet rosters are accurate and communicated to all staff.
• Ensure diet aides have necessary inventory in satellite kitchens, neighborhood kitchens, and storage areas.
• Consult with the supervisor about dining room needs, special events, planning, and implementation of new systems.
• Meet with new admissions as needed, residents, families, and visitors to explain meal programs, menus, preferences, dining times, and related matters.
• Assist with new-hire education, training, and staff development.
• Serve meals to residents with care and positivity.
• Maintain high standards of sanitation and food safety.
• Work alongside the team in a fast-paced kitchen.
• Provide hospitality services to residents and their guests.

Benefits

• Accrue 16 days of PTO in the first year, plus 2 personal days and 6 paid holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Scholarship for employees and their school-aged dependents.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Daily pay options.
• Meal privileges each shift.
• Annual merit-based increases.
• Professional development and mentorship.

What This Job Offers

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