Director of Dining Services
Elderwood · Hornell, NY · 2 wk ago
Management$80k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings using for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only sections with real specific content.
From posting: There's a description (overview) before responsibilities. Could be "About the role" or "Position Overview". The posting includes "Position Overview." after "Why Elderwood?" and before responsibilities. So we can put that as
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only sections with real specific content.
From posting: There's a description (overview) before responsibilities. Could be "About the role" or "Position Overview". The posting includes "Position Overview." after "Why Elderwood?" and before responsibilities. So we can put that as About the role
or Position Overview
. The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should use those exact headings? It says e.g., so we can use those headings. Probably better to match the content: "About the role" for overview, "Responsibilities" for responsibilities list, "Qualifications" for qualifications list, maybe "Skills" not explicitly listed but could infer from qualifications? There's no separate skills section. Benefits: posting mentions "Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package" but no specifics. That's vague; we should not create Benefits section unless specific content. Pay: "Salary Up to $80,000 / Annual Salary Overview" at top. That's pay info. So we can include Pay section with that detail. Schedule: not mentioned. So omit.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Remove boilerplate like EOE statement, application instructions, etc. Also remove duplicated lines.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's extract content:
- Salary Up to $80,000 / Annual Salary Overview (maybe just "Salary up to $80,000 per year").
- About the role: The paragraph starting "Elderwood at Hornell - Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Lead Hospitality. Elevate Resident Experience. Build an Exceptional Dining Program." Actually that's a tagline. Then description: "Elderwood at Hornell is seeking an experienced and service-driven Director of Dining Services to lead the dining operations within one of our skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities. This is a key leadership opportunity for a hospitality or dietary services professional who understands that dining is more than food service - it is a critical part of resident satisfaction, quality of life, clinical support, and the overall care experience. The Director of Dining Services oversees all kitchen and dining operations, leads and develops department staff, ensures regulatory compliance, manages departmental budgets and inventory, and helps create a welcoming, resident-centered dining environment. If you are a strong operational leader with long-term care, healthcare, hospitality, or dietary management experience - we’d welcome the opportunity to connect."
Then "Why Elderwood?" bullet list: "Mission-driven organization focused on People Caring for People Opportunity to lead an important resident-facing department Supportive interdisciplinary leadership environment Strong operational and clinical support Ability to make a direct impact on resident satisfaction and quality outcomes Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package". That's a list of benefits/why. Could be considered Benefits section? But it's not specific benefits like health insurance etc. It's more about why join. Might be better to incorporate into About the role or maybe a separate "Why Elderwood?" but not in allowed headings. Since we only allowed headings list, we could treat that as part of About the role or maybe as Benefits? But Benefits heading expects specific benefits like health, retirement etc. Not present. So we could omit Benefits section.
Then "Position Overview." then bullet list of responsibilities (the list after "As Director of Dining Services, you will oversee:").
Then "The Right Candidate Will Bring" list of skills/attributes.
Then "Responsibilities" heading with sub-sections: Leadership & Operations, Resident Experience & Quality, Regulatory Compliance & Food Safety each with bullet points.
Then "Qualifications" heading with bullet points.
We need to avoid duplication: The earlier "Position Overview" list overlaps with later Responsibilities detailed list. We should preserve all substantive information but not duplicate identical content. We can combine? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove duplicated lines. So we need to avoid repeating same bullet points. The Position Overview list includes: Daily kitchen and dining room operations; Meal preparation and food service quality; Department staffing, scheduling, and team development; Regulatory compliance and survey readiness; Budgeting, purchasing, and inventory control; Resident and family dining experience; Food safety, sanitation, and quality assurance initiatives.
The later Responsibilities section includes more detailed bullets under subheadings. Some overlap but also extra details. We should keep both but ensure not duplicate exact same lines. We can keep the Position Overview as a summary under About the role maybe, and then Responsibilities section with detailed breakdown. That's fine.
We need to output HTML with About the role
containing paragraphs (maybe combine overview and why Elderwood?). Then Pay
with paragraph about salary up to $80,000. Then Responsibilities
with - for each duty. Could structure as nested? Probably just flat list of responsibilities. But we have subheadings within responsibilities; we could keep them as
but not allowed. Only for section headings. So we could just list all responsibilities as flat list, preserving details. Or we could keep subheadings as inside - ? Not specified. Safer to just list all responsibilities as
- items, preserving the text.
Similarly
Qualifications
with list.
We must not include Skills section unless specific content. Not present.
We must not include Benefits or Schedule.
We must not include EEO statement.
We must not include application instructions like "Apply Today".
We must not include duplicated lines.
Let's extract content precisely.
First, salary: "Salary Up to $80,000 / Annual Salary Overview". We'll phrase: "Salary up to $80,000 per year."
Now About the role: combine the introductory paragraphs and Why Elderwood? list.
Intro: "Elderwood at Hornell is seeking an experienced and service-driven Director of Dining Services to lead the dining operations within one of our skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities. This is a key leadership opportunity for a hospitality or dietary services professional who understands that dining is more than food service - it is a critical part of resident satisfaction, quality of life, clinical support, and the overall care experience. The Director of Dining Services oversees all kitchen and dining operations, leads and develops department staff, ensures regulatory compliance, manages departmental budgets and inventory, and helps create a welcoming, resident-centered dining environment. If you are a strong operational leader with long-term care, healthcare, hospitality, or dietary management experience - we’d welcome the opportunity to connect."
Why Elderwood? list: "Mission-driven organization focused on People Caring for People; Opportunity to lead an important resident-facing department; Supportive interdisciplinary leadership environment; Strong operational and clinical support; Ability to make a direct impact on resident satisfaction and quality outcomes; Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package."
We can turn into a paragraph or list. Since it's a list, we can use - .
Now Responsibilities: we have Position Overview list and detailed Responsibilities sub-sections.
Let's compile all distinct responsibility statements:
From Position Overview:
- Daily kitchen and dining room operations
- Meal preparation and food service quality
- Department staffing, scheduling, and team development
- Regulatory compliance and survey readiness
- Budgeting, purchasing, and inventory control
- Resident and family dining experience
- Food safety, sanitation, and quality assurance initiatives
From Responsibilities section:
Leadership & Operations:
- Direct and oversee all Dining Services operations within the facility
- Lead, coach, and supervise dietary and kitchen staff
- Create staffing schedules and manage department labor within budgetary guidelines
- Conduct routine audits and monitor department performance improvement initiatives
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and employee development efforts
Resident Experience & Quality:
- Ensure residents receive high-quality meals and exceptional service
- Interact regularly with residents and families regarding meal satisfaction and dietary needs
- Promote a clean, welcoming, and resident-centered dining environment
- Participate in resident care planning and interdisciplinary collaboration
Regulatory Compliance & Food Safety:
- Maintain compliance with CMS, DOH, and food safety regulations
- Ensure proper food preparation, sanitation, storage, and meal service practices
- Maintain survey readiness and support QIS/process improvement initiatives
- Monitor inventory, purchasing, and resource utilization to minimize waste and control costs
Now we need to remove duplicates. Compare:
- Daily kitchen and dining room operations vs Direct and oversee all Dining Services operations within the facility (similar but not identical). Keep both? They are similar but not exact duplicate. Might be considered duplicate meaning. The instruction: remove duplicated lines. If they are substantially same, maybe keep one. But we could keep both as they add nuance. Safer to keep both? Might be considered duplication. I'd deduplicate by merging: keep the more detailed one. Let's keep the detailed ones from Responsibilities section and omit the generic Position Overview list to avoid duplication. However Position Overview also includes Meal preparation and food service quality, Department staffing, scheduling, and team development, Budgeting, purchasing, and inventory control, Resident and family dining experience, Food safety, sanitation, and quality assurance initiatives. Those are also covered in detailed lists but not exactly same wording. For example, Meal preparation and food service quality is covered by "Ensure residents receive high-quality meals and exceptional service" and "Ensure proper food preparation, sanitation, storage, and meal service practices". Department staffing, scheduling, and team development covered by "Create staffing schedules and manage department labor within budgetary guidelines" and "Lead, coach, and supervise dietary and kitchen staff". Budgeting, purchasing, and inventory control covered by "Monitor inventory, purchasing, and resource utilization to minimize waste and control costs". Resident and family dining experience covered by "Interact regularly with residents and families regarding meal satisfaction and dietary needs". Food safety, sanitation, and quality assurance initiatives covered by "Ensure proper food preparation, sanitation, storage, and meal service practices" and "Maintain survey readiness and support QIS/process improvement initiatives". So we can omit the Position Overview list to avoid duplication.
Thus Responsibilities section will contain the detailed bullets from the Responsibilities heading.
Now Qualifications: list from Qualifications heading.
Let's extract:
- Associate’s degree or higher in Food Service Management (or Hospitality, if the course study includes food service or restaurant management) from an accredited institution of higher learning, OR Certified Dietary Manager, OR Certified Food Service Manager.
- Three years supervisory experience required.
- At least one year experience in a health care setting required.
- Working knowledge of CMS and DOH regulations as they relate to food service.
- Experience with the QIS survey process preferred.
- Computer skills and knowledge in nutritional software programs preferred.
- This position requires regular interaction with residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors.
- In order to ensure a safe work environment for residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors of the Company, and to permit unfettered communication between the employee and those residents, coworkers, visitors, and supervisors, this position requires that the employee be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.
We should keep all.
Now we need to output HTML.
Structure:
About the role
... paragraph ...
- ... Why Elderwood items ...
Pay
Salary up to $80,000 per year.
Responsibilities
- ... each responsibility ...
Qualifications
- ... each qualification ...
Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine.
Now craft the About the role paragraph: combine the intro sentences into one or two paragraphs. Could be two but we can use one
with
About the role
containing paragraphs (maybe combine overview and why Elderwood?). ThenPay
with paragraph about salary up to $80,000. ThenResponsibilities
with- for each duty. Could structure as nested? Probably just flat list of responsibilities. But we have subheadings within responsibilities; we could keep them as
but not allowed. Only
for section headings. So we could just list all responsibilities as flat list, preserving details. Or we could keep subheadings as inside
- ? Not specified. Safer to just list all responsibilities as
- items, preserving the text. Similarly
Qualifications
with list. We must not include Skills section unless specific content. Not present. We must not include Benefits or Schedule. We must not include EEO statement. We must not include application instructions like "Apply Today". We must not include duplicated lines. Let's extract content precisely. First, salary: "Salary Up to $80,000 / Annual Salary Overview". We'll phrase: "Salary up to $80,000 per year." Now About the role: combine the introductory paragraphs and Why Elderwood? list. Intro: "Elderwood at Hornell is seeking an experienced and service-driven Director of Dining Services to lead the dining operations within one of our skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities. This is a key leadership opportunity for a hospitality or dietary services professional who understands that dining is more than food service - it is a critical part of resident satisfaction, quality of life, clinical support, and the overall care experience. The Director of Dining Services oversees all kitchen and dining operations, leads and develops department staff, ensures regulatory compliance, manages departmental budgets and inventory, and helps create a welcoming, resident-centered dining environment. If you are a strong operational leader with long-term care, healthcare, hospitality, or dietary management experience - we’d welcome the opportunity to connect." Why Elderwood? list: "Mission-driven organization focused on People Caring for People; Opportunity to lead an important resident-facing department; Supportive interdisciplinary leadership environment; Strong operational and clinical support; Ability to make a direct impact on resident satisfaction and quality outcomes; Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package." We can turn into a paragraph or list. Since it's a list, we can use- .
Now Responsibilities: we have Position Overview list and detailed Responsibilities sub-sections.
Let's compile all distinct responsibility statements:
From Position Overview:
- Daily kitchen and dining room operations
- Meal preparation and food service quality
- Department staffing, scheduling, and team development
- Regulatory compliance and survey readiness
- Budgeting, purchasing, and inventory control
- Resident and family dining experience
- Food safety, sanitation, and quality assurance initiatives
From Responsibilities section:
Leadership & Operations:
- Direct and oversee all Dining Services operations within the facility
- Lead, coach, and supervise dietary and kitchen staff
- Create staffing schedules and manage department labor within budgetary guidelines
- Conduct routine audits and monitor department performance improvement initiatives
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and employee development efforts
Resident Experience & Quality:
- Ensure residents receive high-quality meals and exceptional service
- Interact regularly with residents and families regarding meal satisfaction and dietary needs
- Promote a clean, welcoming, and resident-centered dining environment
- Participate in resident care planning and interdisciplinary collaboration
Regulatory Compliance & Food Safety:
- Maintain compliance with CMS, DOH, and food safety regulations
- Ensure proper food preparation, sanitation, storage, and meal service practices
- Maintain survey readiness and support QIS/process improvement initiatives
- Monitor inventory, purchasing, and resource utilization to minimize waste and control costs
Now we need to remove duplicates. Compare:
- Daily kitchen and dining room operations vs Direct and oversee all Dining Services operations within the facility (similar but not identical). Keep both? They are similar but not exact duplicate. Might be considered duplicate meaning. The instruction: remove duplicated lines. If they are substantially same, maybe keep one. But we could keep both as they add nuance. Safer to keep both? Might be considered duplication. I'd deduplicate by merging: keep the more detailed one. Let's keep the detailed ones from Responsibilities section and omit the generic Position Overview list to avoid duplication. However Position Overview also includes Meal preparation and food service quality, Department staffing, scheduling, and team development, Budgeting, purchasing, and inventory control, Resident and family dining experience, Food safety, sanitation, and quality assurance initiatives. Those are also covered in detailed lists but not exactly same wording. For example, Meal preparation and food service quality is covered by "Ensure residents receive high-quality meals and exceptional service" and "Ensure proper food preparation, sanitation, storage, and meal service practices". Department staffing, scheduling, and team development covered by "Create staffing schedules and manage department labor within budgetary guidelines" and "Lead, coach, and supervise dietary and kitchen staff". Budgeting, purchasing, and inventory control covered by "Monitor inventory, purchasing, and resource utilization to minimize waste and control costs". Resident and family dining experience covered by "Interact regularly with residents and families regarding meal satisfaction and dietary needs". Food safety, sanitation, and quality assurance initiatives covered by "Ensure proper food preparation, sanitation, storage, and meal service practices" and "Maintain survey readiness and support QIS/process improvement initiatives". So we can omit the Position Overview list to avoid duplication.
Thus Responsibilities section will contain the detailed bullets from the Responsibilities heading.
Now Qualifications: list from Qualifications heading.
Let's extract:
- Associate’s degree or higher in Food Service Management (or Hospitality, if the course study includes food service or restaurant management) from an accredited institution of higher learning, OR Certified Dietary Manager, OR Certified Food Service Manager.
- Three years supervisory experience required.
- At least one year experience in a health care setting required.
- Working knowledge of CMS and DOH regulations as they relate to food service.
- Experience with the QIS survey process preferred.
- Computer skills and knowledge in nutritional software programs preferred.
- This position requires regular interaction with residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors.
- In order to ensure a safe work environment for residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors of the Company, and to permit unfettered communication between the employee and those residents, coworkers, visitors, and supervisors, this position requires that the employee be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.
We should keep all.
Now we need to output HTML.
Structure:
About the role
... paragraph ...
- ... Why Elderwood items ...
Pay
Salary up to $80,000 per year.
Responsibilities
- ... each responsibility ...
Qualifications
- ... each qualification ...
but we can use one
with