Do you enjoy preparing flavorful foods as well as engaging in meaningful interactions with others?
Morningstar Living is currently hiring a Lead Homemaker for our Moravian Hall Square campus in Nazareth, PA in our memory support neighborhood. This opportunity allows you to combine your love of cooking with building sincere and impactful relationships with our residents. This is a Full Time opportunity from 10:30am-7:00pm with an every other weekend requirement and benefits including:
- Competitive Wages
- Health, dental, and vision benefits - with low deductibles
- Paid Time-Off
- Company Sponsored 401K
- Tuition Reimbursement
- On-Site Fitness Center
The Lead Homemaker is responsible for the food safety and overall function of the neighborhood kitchen, including meal preparation for two of the three meals served each day. Some of the duties involved include but are not limited to; meal prep, serving, clean up, overall sanitation of the household kitchen, stocking, labeling and dating etc. This position is a fully integrated neighborhood team member with responsibilities in all facets of the resident’s life, including planned activities that may involve food preparation or other activities specific to the kitchen.
What will I do as a Lead Homemaker?
- Prepares high quality food in accordance with all pertinent safety and health regulations, guidelines and standards.
- Facilitates kitchen related activities for residents; ensures that necessary supplies, equipment and utensils are available; organizes any necessary clean-up activities.
- Regularly seeks resident’s direction in choices of foods, menus, recipes and presentation.
- Understands liberalized therapeutic diets and special food requirements and finds ways to make such modifications palatable and enjoyable.
- Supports the team with resident supervision, elopement prevention, and redirection from the kitchen.
- Facilitate mealtime conversations and maintain a warm, pleasant atmosphere while residents are eating.
What do I need in this role?
- Must have basic food knowledge to prepare and serve tasteful decorated, flavorful foods.
- Must acquire and maintain ServSafe Certification within 3 months of hire.
- One year previous experience with food preparation and service.
- Willing to provide meaningful interaction and kind support for the older adult population we serve.
- Dependability with scheduled work hours
Why choose Morningstar Living?
Our focus at Morningstar Living is to maintain the health and wellness of our customers, by being the conduit for each customer to live life well. And there is no greater joy and satisfaction than the friendship and bond you will build with our customers, along with the supportive, caring team around you. But the best part? You have the ability to work a schedule that works for you and your family... because work-life balance is key to your formula for success.
The Health & Wellness Center at Moravian Hall Square has earned its U.S. News & World Report Best Nursing Home 2025 status by achieving a rating of “High Performing,”, the highest possible rating, for both Short-Term Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care. Of nearly 15,000 nursing homes evaluated only 19% earned this designation for Short-Term Rehabilitation or Long-Term Care (or both).
- Moravian Hall Square was awarded BEST in Senior Health Care Services and BEST Memory Care Community in Morning Call's 2023 Readers' Choice Awards.
- Moravian Hall Square was awarded the national "Excellence in Care (EIC) Dementia Care Program of Distinction" by the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.
Morningstar Living is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by State or Federal law.
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