Lead Server

 

When you join Sunrise Senior Living, you will be able to use your unique skills to empower residents to live longer, healthier, and happier lives. Not only will you build meaningful relationships with residents, their families, and team members alike, you will also gain joy in serving others and deep fulfillment in your work. Explore how you can follow your passions and shed light on meaningful ways to serve, grow, and shine together.

 

Sunrise Senior Living was again certified as a Great Place to Work® by Activated Insights. This is the 9th time Sunrise has received this top culture and workplace designation, highlighting the special place Sunrise is to be a part of.

COMMUNITY NAME

Sunrise of Westtown

Job ID

2026-242421

JOB OVERVIEW

The Lead Server is responsible for providing dining and table services to residents and guests in the community’s dining rooms and designated areas in accordance with Sunrise Senior Living standards. The Lead Server is responsible for training new servers, maintaining proper dining room set up, assisting in special events, monitoring appropriate checklists in support of the dining area cleanliness and readiness standards and assisting in table top inventories maintenance. Responsible for handling all food and beverages in accordance with sanitary procedures and standards and complies with all federal, state and local regulatory procedures regarding food service.

RESPONSIBILITIES & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Duties

As a part of the Sunrise team, supporting our Mission, Principles of Service and Core Values is a fundamental part of this job. Our foundational belief is the sacred value of human life. The unique responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to the essential functions listed as follows:

General Dining Service Duties

• Provides support to the servers in the day to day operations of the dining room while maintaining a high quality, positive and safe physical and social environment for residents, guests and fellow team members.
• Provides dining service training to new servers 10 Steps of Service.
• Maintains knowledge of Daily and Always Available Menu items and can provide general description to the residents and guests.
• Assists residents with menu selections and responds to pertinent questions about menu items.
• Takes meal and beverage orders and serving requested items according to established guidelines Use tableside dining / meal suit.
• Responds to the dining needs of the residents and guests while maintaining Sunrise hospitality and service standards.
• Attends pre-meal briefing to gain knowledge of the meal and meal support activities.
• Follows all local, state/provincial and federal policies regarding food handling.
• Maintains standards of cleanliness, hygiene and health standards.

General Dining Room Duties

• Performs dining room checklist inspections for dining room cleanliness and readiness and makes necessary adjustments as appropriate to maintain quality standards.
• Maintains side work duties as assigned.
• Maintains assigned tables and surrounding area in a complete state of cleanliness, appearance and readiness.
• Performs and ensures dining room set-up and re-set of tables is in accordance with dining room procedures.
• Supports the dining room decorum and etiquette standards.
• Performs and completes opening and closing checklist criteria.
• Assists in table top inventories maintenance.

Resident Services

• Reviews, reads, notates and initializes the Daily Log to document and learn about pertinent information.
• Reviews Resident Diet Book, confidential Diet Board / Indicator, Data Card or Chart remove? TSD/MS Where applicable.
• Maintains and protects the confidentiality of resident information at all times.

Food Safety and Sanitation

• Practices safe food handling at all times to prevent an outbreak of food borne illness.
• Completes daily, weekly and monthly cleaning assignments.
• Maintains all work areas in a healthful and safe condition.
• Assists in dining room and surrounding areas for proper directional flow, organization and supplies placement.

Risk Management and General Safety

• Partners with community team to ensure community is in compliance with national/provincial regulations pertaining to occupational health and safety requirements and promotion of Risk Management programs and policies; adherence to safety rules and regulations.
• Practices safety procedures at all times including Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), fire extinguishers, MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) and Lockout Tagout procedures.

Training, and Contributing