Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 4:00 AM Status: Full-time vacancy Southbridge Care Homes provides exceptional acquisition, management, and redevelopment services for long-term care homes and retirement communities across Ontario. Our mission is to maintain a best-in-class portfolio that consistently delivers excellence in care and services while ensuring economic sustainability. Reporting to the VP of Operational Excellence, The Regional Food Service Manager provides leadership, guidance, and operational support to home-level Food Service teams across multiple locations to ensure consistent delivery of safe, nutritious, and high-quality meals.

This role supports compliance with regulatory standards and corporate policies through audits, training, and performance monitoring. Working collaboratively with Dietitian Consultants and home-level managers, the position drives continuous improvement in food service operations and enhances resident satisfaction. This position involves extensive travel to and from homes and may require over night stays from time to time.

An active presence is required in all areas of nutrition and food service operations across multiple homes. The employee must be able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced, team-oriented setting. Interacts daily with residents, staff, and visitors, requiring professionalism, patience, and solid communication skills.

At all times must follow infection control, food safety, and occupational health and safety standards. Plan, organize and provide high-quality dietary services for residents of the facility. Apply continuous quality improvement principles, best practices, and standardization to workflow, performance, production,



and changes to service and dietary requirements to meet legislative requirements.

Ensure the environment of all food preparation and storage areas meets Public Health requirements. Maintain all records in accordance with policies, procedures, and legislative requirements, including the implementation and posting of all regular and therapeutic menus. Liaise and consult with residents, families, team members, government officials, and professionals in relation to resident care needs and department activities be accountable for the departmental budget and food costs Support the Environmental department with product ordering and general tasks.

Current membership with the Canadian Society of Nutritional Management (C.Minimum 2 years dietary management experience in a long-term care setting. Superb organizational, time management, and multi-tasking skills.

Experience managing employees within a unionized setting. Customer-focused with a high emphasis on building and maintaining relationships with clients. Flexibility to participate in the manager on-call rotation schedule.

Completion of a 2 Step TB Skin test within the last 12 months. Only those applicants selected to move forward in the recruitment process will be contacted. Southbridge welcomes those applicants with disability related needs and those whom a need for accommodation in the recruitment process.

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📌 REGIONAL FOOD SERVICE MANAGER (Ottawa)
🏢 Southbridge Care Homes
📍 Ottawa