Overview
We are seeking a dynamic and dedicated Nutrition Services Coordinator to lead and manage our dietary operations with enthusiasm and precision. In this vital role, you will oversee the planning, implementation, and supervision of nutrition services across various care settings. Your expertise will ensure that all food service activities comply with health regulations, meet patient needs, and promote overall well-being. This position offers an exciting opportunity to impact lives positively through strategic management of food programs and team leadership, fostering a culture of excellence in nutrition care.
Nutrition Services Coordinator:
- Previous experience in culinary arts, cooking, or other related fields
- Knowledge of cost, inventory and labor systems
- Knowledge and experience of USDA Food Service for childcare food program.
- Passion for food and cooking techniques
- Strong leadership qualities
- Ability to complete required documentation of the USDA Food Service Food program
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrates a sufficient proficiency in math and verbal and written communications skills, which are necessary to perform job duties adequately.
- Must possess valid driver’s license and provide proof of insurability.
- Must never have been convicted of an offense involving child abuse, child neglect, controlled substances, or violence towards another individual.
- Reports all suspected cases of child abuse and/or neglect in accordance with the Nebraska Childcare Policies and Procedures
- Be able to stoop, crawl, kneel, and bend to be on child’s eye level and to lift, carry, and hold children up to 70 pounds.
- Applicants must submit to drug testing as a condition of employment.
- Be trained in Community First Aid and CPR, including infant and toddler First Aid and CPR
- High school diploma or equivalency
- A minimum of one-year satisfactory full-time experience in an Early Childhood or Childcare setting or other quantity food service experience
- Oversee day-to-day culinary operations and USDA food service for childcare.
Food program
- Prepare breakfast, lunch, and snack daily.
- Serve meals according to USDA Food service guidelines.
- Complete required UDSA food service documentation daily
- Coordinate food and kitchenware orders.
- Check freshness and quality of ingredients.
- Assist in the development of menu items following USDA food service guidelines.
- Standardize recipes and plate presentations.
- Work with management to create a memorable experience for our children.
- Employee coordinates day-to-day meal planning, preparing and delivery of meals for children and staff in the Childcare Center according to State Child Care Regulations, Head Start Performance Standards and the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program Regulations
- Supervised by the Site Supervisor with review by the Early Childhood Director and Assistant Director
- Attend staff/program meetings as required.
- Ability to work in a positive and productive manner within a team.
- Works with the Site Supervisor, in planning daily menus according to the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
- Prepares meals for parent activities, staff meetings, and field trips as directed by the Site Supervisor
- Ensures all monthly reports are complete and accurate, and turned in by the monthly deadline set by the childcare Coordinator.
- Ensures all inventories are kept up-to-date and documented as well as other reports assigned by the Director
- Is familiar with specified children’s/staff’s diet restrictions and follows correctly.
- Works to insure proper implementation of USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
- Services food to children and staff in accordance with established meal service pattern requirements from USDA CACFP
- Maintains on a daily basis, the orderliness and cleanliness of assigned work area and is responsible for maintaining other areas, both inside and outside the facility, on a rotating basis as assigned by the Site Supervisor
- Encourages habits of safety and cleanliness for children by handling of work properly
- Follows Safety and Sanitation requirements.
- Requisitions needed supplies and equipment through the Site Supervisor while ensuring all request are in compliance with the CACFP guidelines.
- Works with Management Team and teaching staff in planning and carrying out all activities in a team approach.
- Attends all staff meetings as scheduled by the Site Supervisor
- Attends all Program In-Service, New Staff and Content Area training as assigned by the Site Supervisor, Child Development Services Manager, Early Childhood Department Director.
- Possess the skills necessary to perform pen, pencil and computer tasks.
- Check deliveries for invoice accuracy and report shortages. Monitor and report receipt of items of unacceptable quality or condition by following policies.
- Provide oversight of storage for all food and non-food supplies to ensure compliance with recommended storage requirements, maintaining the cleanliness and organization of food storage areas, dating, and putting up delivery stock, and counting monthly physical inventory.
- Responsible for maintaining accurate reports of daily and monthly financial, production, and activity records.
- Assists students, parents, teachers and school staff with questions concerning meal program.
- Enforce standards of cleanliness, health, and safety collection. Supports and assists in the sanitation process while maintaining proper sanitizer levels in all sinks and containers and of all cafeteria utensils pots, pans, and serving utensils. Sweeping and mopping, walls, high dusting, floor drains, loading and walking up the stairs; carrying out bags of garbage and placing in dumpster. May also assist with wiping or washing tables, chairs, or benches in dining room.
- Assists with wrapping, recording, labeling, dating and putting away food at end of serving time; records leftovers in addition to maintaining accurate records of foods used, produced, and served on food production record. Use all this data to submit claims by the 10th of the following month. All menus and food orders are due on Thursdays. Menus MUST be entered into Kid Kare and Procare as well. Menus must be sent to parents every week. Menus MUST match the food ordered.
- Completes assigned reports including temperature logs, production records.
- Must follow workplace safety procedures.
- Establishes and maintains positive and effective working relationships with a broad diversity of students, staff, and the public.
- Ensure compliance with established food safety practices regarding proper dress and hygiene.
- Attends workshops, classes, lectures, etc., as directed, to enhance and maintain knowledge of food services.
Physical Requirements:Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including ovens, steamers, ovens, pans, and all types of kitchen utensils and tools pertaining to food service, etc. Must be able to lift up to 70 pounds on occasion, and constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work. Must be able to stand for hours. Must be able to bend, twist, lift, stoop, reach overhead to perform assigned tasks. Data Conception:Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.
Interpersonal Communication:Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Requires the ability to receive instructions, assignments or directions from superiors. Requires the ability to work cooperatively with coworkers to complete group tasks and to serve customer needs.
Language Ability:Requires the ability to read and understand a variety of correspondence, menus, recipes, work schedule and productions sheets, etc. Requires the ability to prepare simple reports, logs, and lists. Requires the ability to speak to people with poise, voice control, self- control and confidence.
Intelligence:Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations. Vision,Medical,Dental,PTO after 1 year. Life Insurance, Sick Time after 1 year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
Work Location: In person
