Alleghany Highlands Community Services provides services and support to individuals in our community with behavioral health challenges and intellectual and developmental disabilities. This position is primarily responsible for ensuring residents have meals per prescribed dietary needs and preferences. The employee works collaboratively with the dietitian to develop and prepare meal plans that address the resident's needs. The incumbent will ensure all meals served meet conditions for food safety and are served in a manner that best promotes the home environment of the program.
We will consider applicants with a C.N.A. background that are interested in a dual role.
About AHCS:
A career with AHCS offers valuable benefits from participation in retirement savings; life, health, dental, and vision insurance; generous annual leave, sick leave depending on position, and paid holidays. AHCS participates in education assistance opportunities, fitness membership reimbursement, and other great perks!
The Alleghany Highlands Community Services Board is committed to improving the quality of life for individuals in our community with behavioral health challenges and developmental disabilities. AHCS is committed to preventing the occurrence of these conditions through an integrated community-based system of care. AHCS is committed to being responsive to individual needs and choices. Alleghany Highlands Community Services (AHCS) began in 1983 and is one of forty Community Services Boards and Behavioral Health Authorities established under the Code of Virginia to provide comprehensive services to individuals who have mental health disorders, developmental disabilities, or substance use disorders. As the publicly funded safety net for service delivery, we must continuously monitor and evaluate our cost for services as well as the effectiveness of what we do. AHCS operates multiple service sites throughout the Alleghany Highlands, with over 150 employees working to support our services. We are proud to have served our community for 37 years. AHCSB is accountable to and licensed by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) for the quality of care and fiscal accountability of the programs under its jurisdiction.
AHCS is governed by a nine-person all-volunteer board appointed with members from each jurisdiction by local governing bodies – Alleghany County, Clifton Forge and the City of Covington. The Board members are people from the community with various occupations and interests who serve three-year terms of office.
