Asst Dir-Hosp Nutrition Servic

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Job Title:

Asst Dir-Hosp Nutrition Servic

Department:

University Hospital | Food Service Administration

Job Description Scope of Position Nutrition Services administers quality nutritional care and food service operations for patients, staff and visitors in Wexner Medical Center facilities, campus and the communities we serve. The Department coordinates activities to enhance patient, staff and customer satisfaction. The Department is responsible for nutrition care and food service and retail food operations for patients, staff and visitors to the various locations including University Hospital, Ross Heart Hospital, Brain and Spine Hospital, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, University Hospital East, OSU Harding and clinical nutrition services are also provided in more than 25 separate clinic locations within Ambulatory Services. Main campus cafes include BistrOH! and BistrOH! to go on the concourse, Bloch Cafe in CCCT, and a planned cafe in the Brain and Spine Hospital. Another full service cafe, BistrOH! operates at UHE and there are BistrOH! to go locations at Eye and Ear Institute, Martha Morehouse Medical Plaza (2), Ackerman Road complex, Care Point East and Stefanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center. Nutrition Services also provides oversight to 5 subcontracted retail foodservice locations and vending. Nutrition Services also maintains many outreach programs and several community gardens to deliver nutrition and food programming. Position Summary Directly responsible for retail cafes, catering, distribution, dishroom and business functions within the department. o Assures that foods served are high quality and those areas under supervision meet or exceed all required regulatory standards for safe food handling, labelling, weights and measures requirements. Assures consistency of service across day parts and days of the week. Operations serve more than 2 million customers generating more than 8 million dollars annually in sales from 10 cafes across the health system. o Integrates culinary, service and cash handling functions for retails cafes to achieve best service model. o Ensure that cafes and catering operations meet Internal Audit and PCI compliance standards for cash handling for areas they are responsible for. Completes cash handling audits to validate staff practices. Follows up with Security as appropriate for suspected thefts. o Establish menus that are high quality, include sufficient variety and offered in convenient packages that support medical center staff, faculty, visitors and student needs. Creates limited time offers and special events to drive sales. o Coordinates foodservice needs with other department management team members and works collaboratively to achieve best results with food production, clinical nutrition, office and information systems groups. o Works collaboratively organization staff to promote staff engagement and develop activities to support staff work life balance. o Works with communications and marketing staff on external community food events and off premise catering representing the medical center o Assures functions of core department operations of receiving, distribution and the dishroom support all areas of the department well. Ensures these areas meet all Joint Commission and regulatory requirements. Human Resources ? Facilitates department HR processes (position description, corrective action, other), staff training and orientation/onboarding with appropriate staff ? Provides oversight, direction, devel