Requisition ID: 363422
Position Number: 20000004
Posting End Date: Open Until Filled
City: Winnipeg
Employer: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Site: WRHA Corporate - Winnipeg Corporate
Department / Unit: Regional Nutrition & Food Services
Job Stream: Non-Clinical
Union: Non Union
Anticipated Start Date: ASAP
FTE: 1.00
Anticipated Shift: Days
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Daily Hours Worked: 7.75
Annual Base Hours: 2015
Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region! Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites, services and organizations. We're united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.
As the leader in the Nutrition and Food Services (NFS)/Regional Laundry Services (RLS) management team, this position has the primary responsibility for providing leadership and direction for the provision of nutritional care, patient, resident food services and laundry/linen supplies across the acute, community and long-term care continuum. The Chief Nutrition and Food Services Officer is responsible for developing mechanisms to ensure applications of best practice, evidence-based nutritional care, operational and professional standards, and continuous quality improvement processes across the region. Within the Nutrition and Food Services and Regional Laundry Services programs, this position provides key direction in policy development.
In addition to Clinical Nutrition, NFS provides over 8000 patient/resident meals daily to 11 sites from the Regional Distribution Facility. Nutritional, balanced, quality, cost effective meals are provided within resources allocated.
Regional Laundry Services provides responsive, customer-focused support to 65 health care facilities in Manitoba, processing over 25M pounds of soiled laundry annually. The Chief Nutrition and Food Services Officer is responsible for overseeing the regional management and delivery of high-quality laundry services.
This position requires the incumbent to take a leadership role in the development and implementation of the portfolio's strategic and operational plans.
The Chief Nutrition and Food Services Officer operates within an environment of limited fiscal resources combined with an increasing demand for health care services. The Chief Nutrition and Food Services Officer is expected to plan and to establish priorities amongst competing demands for resources.
SPECIAL TRAINING:
This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.
Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.
Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.
Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.