Job Description

Are you compassionate towards others?  Are you passionate about enriching the lives of others?  If so, we want you to join our team and help seniors Age Magnificently!  Our Culinary Director become family and impact the lives of our residents who live in a Lifespark Senior Living Community. Legacy of Farmington, a Lifespark Senior Living Community is looking for Culinary Director to join our growing team!

Legacy of Farmington Senior Living is a beautiful community located in Farmington, located right off Denmark Ave. We help seniors Age Magnificently in our gorgeous 70-unit, apartment style community providing Assisted Living, Independent Living and Memory Care services. Legacy of Farmington Senior Living is a growing community with a caring, hardworking, passionate team who assists our residents Age Magnificently. Join our team today!

Position: Culinary Director

Salary: $60,000 - $66,000 annually, depending on experience

Service Area: 22300 Denmark Avenue, Farmington, MN 55024

Schedule: 1.0 FTE, Full - Time / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm (rotation with MOD)

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurances
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees
• Referral bonuses
• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Position Duties & Responsibilities:

In this position you are responsible for meeting high standards in the areas of meal preparation, communication, record keeping, and effectively working with employees, residents, and their families to ensure high quality and nutritional dietary services.  Duties include but not limited to:  

• Manage inventory and ordering of food and culinary supplies, including reviewing and adhering to departmental budget. 
• Hire, train and supervise culinary employees. 
• Maintains positive relationships with key stakeholders such as residents, their families, staff, and the community. 
• Participate in facility leadership meetings, Interdisciplinary Team meetings, Quality Assurance/Improvement, Care Conferences, and other facility meetings as required. 
• Interview residents and families to ensure nutritional needs are met.  
• Nutritional monitoring of residents through assessments, progress notes and dietary care planning. 
• Process and review diet orders to ensure compliance with physician orders.  
• Must be adaptable, flexible to changes, and able to prioritize and organize work efficiently to accomplish workload within time allotted. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Must have a current ServSafe Certification. 
• A minimum of one year experience in dietary field is preferred. 
• Must be able to relate professionally, positively, and cooperatively with residents, resident’s families and employees. 
• Must have proficient knowledge of computer systems, including email use. 

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.