Patient Meals Manager - Dietitian (RD)

Job Description: This position is responsible for all aspects of Patient Services within the Culinary Service department in the hospital. This role provides leadership and direction related to optimal provision of meals to patients and creating an exceptional experience. This position will oversee daily operations of this service line, implementing system-level best practice standards, organizing and managing quality initiatives, meeting regulatory compliance, managing caregiver productivity, cost-effective service delivery, and realizing customer expectations.

Job Specifics:

Schedule: Full-time (40 hours), Monday - Friday with one weekend per month, plus flexibility to support department staffing needs.

Location : Intermountain Health St. Vincent Regional Hospital, Billings, Montana

Benefits Eligible: Yes - Link to Benefit Details

Top candidates for Patient Meals Manager will have healthcare experience.

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Food is more than fuel; it’s comfort, healing, and connection. As a Patient Meals Manager - Dietitian (RD) , you will lead patient meal services within the hospital, ensuring safe, high-quality, and compassionate care through exceptional culinary operations.

This leadership role is responsible for overseeing all aspects of patient meal services within the Culinary Services department. You will guide daily operations, drive quality and regulatory compliance, and partner closely with clinical and nursing teams to ensure patients receive the right nutrition at the right time - every time.

Join the St. Vincent Regional Hospital team that’s building toward the future as we prepare for the opening of our new hospital location in 2030. Get ready to reach new heights, ignite your passion, and pursue what matters by cooking with us.

delivers compassionate, quality care to the people of Montana and Northern Wyoming, as it has for more than 125 years. In addition to 30 regional clinics, we offer a number of progressive specialty services. St. Vincent even has a special “hospital within a hospital” just for children, St. Vincent Children’s Hospital.

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Essential Functions

• Manages daily operations of patient meal services
• Partners with nursing to meet patients’ needs by doing education with nursing and ensuring we are following appropriate guidelines
• Leads patient meal areas and has a high level of competency and ability to train in therapeutic diets- coordinates with frontline caregivers to assure all diets are followed per provider orders.
• Implements established clinical best practices to deliver exceptional care and service at the appropriate cost.
• Provides value-based leadership to establish high functioning teams and operations in an accountable environment.
• Facilitates all human resources functions including hiring, training, mentoring, evaluating, conflict resolution, constructive discipline, and termination.
• Manages employees to ensure that food safety standards and regulatory guidelines are met.
• Monitors quality and satisfaction scores. In conjunction with the System-level Directors, develops and implements plans to achieve desired outcomes.
• Communicates nutrition expertise with appropriate healthcare providers.
• Working closely with the clinical team to assure that specific patient diet orders and concerns are addressed.

Skills

• Food Service
• People Management
• Food Safety and Sanitation
• Business
• Computer Literacy
• Interpersonal Communication
• Financial Competence
• Nutrition

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Service, Dietetics, Nutrition or Management; Registered Dietitian with the Commission on Dietetic Registration within 6 months of hire. 
• Food Handler Permit or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work (required only in the states of Utah and Idaho).
• ServSafe certification obtained within 90 days of hire date if not current.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a diverse team.
• Demonstrated highly effective verbal, written, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Experience using word processing, advanced or complex spreadsheet and database applications, internet and e-mail and scheduling applications, as well as computerized tracking systems.
• Demonstrated experience in quality improvement initiatives.
• Preferred:
  • Demonstrated ability to work and navigate the complexities of hospital food service operations and therapeutic diets with multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience using advanced or complex spreadsheet and database applications, nutrition services software, and computerized tracking systems.
  • Demonstrated experience in quality and clinical improvement initiatives

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment. Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
• Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.

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The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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