Food Service Supervisor - Part Time
Elfw Jobsearch · Towanda, Pennsylvania, United States
Ready to take the next step in your food service leadership career?
Guthrie Towanda Memorial Hospital is seeking a Food Service Supervisor to help oversee Food & Nutrition Services operations across both the hospital and skilled nursing facility. This is a hands-on leadership position that combines team supervision with daily operational responsibilities. You'll work closely with Food & Nutrition leadership while helping support a department that serves patients, residents, visitors, and caregivers throughout the Towanda campus.
Whether you're an experienced supervisor or a food service team lead ready to take the next step in your career, this role offers the opportunity to build leadership experience within one of the region's leading healthcare organizations. We're looking for someone who enjoys working alongside their team, solving problems proactively, and helping create a positive experience for both staff and those we serve.
Position Details
- Part-time leadership opportunity (20 hours per week)
- Mix of day and afternoon shifts
- Every-other-weekend coverage required
- Supervises approximately 10-15 team members across multiple shifts
- Supports food service operations for both the hospital and skilled nursing facility
- Hands-on role that includes supporting patient meal service, cafeteria operations, and food production activities
Why Consider Guthrie?
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match
- Career growth opportunities throughout Guthrie
- Opportunity to lead and mentor employees in a healthcare environment
- Hands-on role where you'll remain actively involved in daily operations
- Supportive, family-oriented team culture
- Meaningful work supporting both patients and long-term care residents
Who Will Thrive in This Role?
This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys working with people, developing employees, and helping a team succeed. You may be a strong fit if your background includes food service, hospitality, restaurants, healthcare dining, senior living, schools, universities, or other service-focused environments.
Success in this position comes from being dependable, approachable, and comfortable leading by example. The ideal candidate remains calm under pressure, isn't afraid to have difficult conversations when needed, can effectively delegate responsibilities, and takes initiative to address challenges before they become larger issues. We're looking for a leader who is willing to roll up their sleeves, jump in where needed, and help foster the family atmosphere that makes the Towanda campus a special place to work.
Position Summary
The Dietary Supervisor is responsible for safe and efficient food service practices for patient and retail services. This position oversees dietary aides, diet office associates, cooks and student aides in order to provide proper quantities and quality of food for the production of patient meals, floor stock, room service, cafeteria, coffee shop, catering and vending operations. This position may include cooking and preparing meals for service. As a member of the food and nutrition team, maintains cost containment, high sanitation practices, takes initiative and leads by example.
Experience:
- Minimum two years supervisor experience in the food/ hospitality industry. Must be experienced with computers; to include Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Power Point), Outlook, E-mail and the Internet. Must be willing to participate in patient satisfaction programs/activities. Must have interpersonal skills to handle confidential information, sensitive situations, and ability to work with diverse group of people within and outside the organization. Ability to work cooperatively with peers and supervisors to contribute to the overall productivity of the team.
- Hospital or health care institution experience preferred but not required.
- Experience with CBORD (Epic interfacing Nutrition software system) preferred but not required.
- CDM preferred but not required
Education, License & Cert:
- Serve Safe Certification required within 12 months of hire
- High School graduate (or GED) required
Essential Functions:
- Performs supervisor functions according to food and nutrition department operations, policy and procedure.
- Participates in all aspects of employee management.
- Plans and conducts service trainings for the department.
- Facilitates quality improvement initiatives and compiles quality reports to ensure continued quality care.
- Reviews and updates food and nutrition manuals and forms (ie daily work schedules, equipment orientation forms, job descriptions, cleaning and sanitation schedules, temp logs, equipment manuals and food and nutrition policies).
- Oversees tray line, room service, catering, cafeteria, coffee shop, vending and floor stock operations.
- Conducts orientation programs for all new food and nutrition personnel, including but not limited to facility tour, training schedule, uniform, introduction to food and nutrition policies, job description, proper use of equipment and safe food service practices.
- Supervises the safe production and distribution of food.
- Collaborates with cooks on a daily basis to ensure that all food items are prepared for tray line, room service, catering, cafeteria, coffee shop and floor stock operations.
- Ensures that proper receiving and storage techniques are followed.
Essential Functions, continued:
- Participates and guides employees in safe production and delivery of food.
- Demonstrates proper use of HACCP principles.
Other Duties:
- Meets at least weekly with the Food and Nutrition Services Management Team to review obstacles, goals and critical success factors.
- Attends and participates in staff meetings and huddles.
- Demonstrates willingness to accept other duties and responsibilities as established by hospital administration.
- Demonstrates effective time management, flexibility, and priority setting in Food Service Management.
- It is understood that this description is not intended to be all inclusive, and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of this position.
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