Dietary Aide
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Benchmark Senior Living
Norwalk, CT, US
Summary
Provides dining service to residents, guests, and family members while preparing trays according to menus and therapeutic diet orders. Maintains high standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and sanitation throughout all dining areas and work stations.
Job Description
THIS POSITION IS LOCATED IN REDDING, CT
Join, stay, and grow with Benchmark. Connect with your calling.
Meadow Ridge is the premier life care retirement community in Fairfield County, located on 136 acres in beautiful Redding, Connecticut. In this unique and enriching environment, we offer Independent and Assisted Living apartment homes, as well as a skilled Health Center where we provide our residents with quality care and services.
We’re seeking Dietary Aides who share our passion and commitment to making Meadow Ridge the Benchmark for providing service and care service to our residents.
FT and PT opportunities available
Weekend availability required.
Hourly wage range $17 -$18.25
Responsibilities
- Provides dining service to Residents, guests and family members as needed.
- Prepares trays and serves food according to menus and following therapeutic diet orders.
- Maintains or exceeds standards of appearance, cleanliness, hygiene, and health standards.
- Follows daily and weekly cleaning schedules.
- Maintains all side stations and dining areas using the “clean as you go” policy.
- Keeps work areas clean and maintains sanitary conditions.
Requirements
- Must be able to follow written and oral instructions
- Must have knowledge of dietary procedures and related Health Department regulations and guidelines for food service operations
- Must be able to serve food and beverages for residents in a prompt and efficient manner
- Be able to lift up to 50lbs.
As a community associate at Benchmark, you will have access to a variety of benefits including, but not limited to, the following:
- 8 holidays & 3 floating holidays
- Discounted Meal Program
- Paid Training & Company-provided Uniforms
- Associate Referral Bonus Program
- Physical & Mental Health Wellness Programs
- 401k Retirement Plan with Company Match*
- Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits*
- Tuition Reimbursement Program*
- Vacation and Health & Wellness Paid Time Off*
*Eligibility may vary by employment status
Benchmark Senior Living is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We embrace and encourage our associates’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our associates unique.
Transforming Lives Through Human Connection
Benchmark Senior Living was founded in 1997 by the company’s Chairman and CEO Tom Grape. Tom had long recognized the value of the consumer-centered approach to senior living and the many health and social benefits the philosophy offers residents.
Not only had Tom decided to make senior living his life’s work, but he did so with a commitment to set the industry standard – to be the benchmark.
Today, Benchmark is a leader in senior living throughout the Northeast, offering independent living, assisted living, mind and memory care, continuing care retirement communities and respite care options in 63 communities across seven states.
The company is the largest provider of mind and memory care in New England and has been at the forefront of this specialty throughout its history. Today, the company operates 11 communities dedicated to memory services and nearly all its communities offer personalized, needs-based mind and memory care.
Benchmark’s core values of Called to Care, Better Together and Be the Benchmark guide its mission of not only providing world-class care, but doing so in a way that keeps Benchmark focused on who and what matters most: our residents, their families and our associates.
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Medical Practices
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
Nashua, New Hampshire
Transforming Lives Through Human Connection
Benchmark Senior Living was founded in 1997 by the company’s Chairman and CEO Tom Grape. Tom had long recognized the value of the consumer-centered approach to senior living and the many health and social benefits the philosophy offers residents.
Not only had Tom decided to make senior living his life’s work, but he did so with a commitment to set the industry standard – to be the benchmark.
Today, Benchmark is a leader in senior living throughout the Northeast, offering independent living, assisted living, mind and memory care, continuing care retirement communities and respite care options in 63 communities across seven states.
The company is the largest provider of mind and memory care in New England and has been at the forefront of this specialty throughout its history. Today, the company operates 11 communities dedicated to memory services and nearly all its communities offer personalized, needs-based mind and memory care.
Benchmark’s core values of Called to Care, Better Together and Be the Benchmark guide its mission of not only providing world-class care, but doing so in a way that keeps Benchmark focused on who and what matters most: our residents, their families and our associates.
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Medical Practices
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
Nashua, New Hampshire
