Interim Coordinator, Tray Assembly

**Who We Are**:
London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. As one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC is a world-class innovator in clinical care, research and teaching, delivering both local and regional services, including the Children’s Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC has a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while working together to shape the future of health.

Patient Food Services provides meals to inpatients at both University Hospital and Victoria Hospital based on the physician prescribed diet and allergies listed. Patients are provided a menu based on their prescribed diet so they can make meal selections for the following day. A lot of research, preparation, and care go into each meal served by LHSC Food Services to ensure patients receive choices that meet their unique nutritional needs, tastes, preferences, and allergy requirements.

**Job Summary**:
**What the Role is**

Reporting to the Manager, Food Services the Coordinator, Tray Assembly & Food Services is accountable for day-to-day department activities, including the management of human and material resources, day-to-day staffing and scheduling, development and support of a healthy workplace, risk and utilization measurements, and facilitation of improvement initiatives and change management, while operating within approved operational budgets and financial guidelines and controls.

A major focus of the role is fostering effective working relationships and linkages within the team especially between clinical area leaders, support service team members, clinical dietitians, dietetic assistants, speech language pathologists and Information Technology Service team members.

The Food Services Department leadership team will enhance the quality, safety and care experience for our patients. The Coordinator will build the collaborative team to enhance the research, teaching and activities, in pursuit of becoming the most advanced Food Services Department in Canada.

**Qualifications**:
**Who You Are**
- You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
- You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
- You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
- You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
- You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
- You create connections, build partnerships and networks
- You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
- You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
- You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
- You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills

**What Skills Are Needed**
- Planning and executing action plans that deliver results and motivate individuals for greater performance excellence
- Strong business acumen
- Values-based leadership and a proven track record for developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams while leading in a performance-driven culture
- Lead and drive system transformation
- Develop self and others through teaching, coaching, mentoring and formal development processes
- Strong analytical skills that contribute to effective problem solving and decision-making

**What You Will Bring with You**
- Successful completion of a recognized baccalaureate degree program in Human Nutrition and Dietetics
- Member of the College of Dietitians of Ontario
- Related post-graduate education preferred
- Minimum five (2) years’ experience in progressively more responsible leadership roles in a healthcare environment, preferably in an acute care academic teaching hospital
- Minimum three (3) years’ experience in Food Services preferred
- Demonstrated ability to attend work on a regular basis

**Other Information**:
London Health Sciences Centre fosters a culture of patient and staff safety whereby all employees are guided by LHSC's Mission, Vision, Values and Code of Conduct.

**Submission Requirements (**please submit in one MS Word, or PDF(preferred), document**)**:
**Cover Letter, Resume and Listing of Education, Credentials and Certifications***

Please be advised that reference checks may be conducted as part of the selection process.

Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected