Hospital Food Services Director
This key leadership position develops cohesive leadership and employee teams that have strategic focus, maintain, or enhance the patient and customer experience, meet regulatory standards for food and clinical nutrition services, and operate within the business objectives of the hospital/health system. Builds and develops a leadership team to establish positive work culture and deliver outcomes. Promotes teamwork inside/outside the department and collaborates with hospital/health system stakeholders to implement programs and processes that meet the needs of the organization. Ensures that the operations are well managed, employee performance is evaluated and follows health system performance management guidelines. Has sound financial understanding of healthcare food and nutrition services, establishes budget, and ensures that department meets financial targets for staffing, supplies and revenue while meeting the quality expectations and maintaining the Baptist Health brand. The Director serves as a leader and mentor for the department, organization, and profession. This job code typically involves overseeing a workforce of 85 or more Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) and/or a managed volume greater than $7 million.
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Dietetics or related field plus five years of food services leaderhip experience, preferably in a hospital setting.
Will consider eight (8) years of food services leadership experience in lieu of a degree.
Registered Dietitian (RD) or Certified Dietary Manager (must obtain within one year of hire) required.
If RD must hold license in Indiana License
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
