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EMILY SOUTHWORTH GISSEL

Beavercreek,OR

Summary

High energy team leader with a drive to meet and exceed goals. Fifteen years of management and supervisory experience hiring, training, mentoring, and budget management in both kitchen and office setting. Strong verbal and written communication. High attention to detail and monitoring of safety and sanitation policies and procedures. Excellent customer service and follow through.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Nutrition Services Site Supervisor

Reynolds School District 7
11.2017 - Current
  • Coordinates and supervises district nutrition services programs, facilities, resource, and over 80 employees spread out over a dozen campuses that perform all necessary work to ensure students receive compliant meals that are safe, offer variety and are pleasing; ensures smooth operation of daily nutrition service operations for assigned sites.
  • Supports Nutrition Services Director with ensuring school nutrition program complies with District and state regulations; local health standards, hazard, sanitation, safety practices and procedures as they relate to food service preparation and sanitation.
  • Collaborates with Director of Nutrition services to provide input on program assessments and projections about major trends in school nutrition.
  • Prepares and constructs reports, documents, correspondences, and spreadsheets; performs financial analysis and management.
  • Reviews and approves various vendor orders.
  • Visit schools and assures that safety practices comply at site level.
  • Collaborates with Director of Nutrition regarding implementation of all USDA regulated programming, including summer meal programs and coordinates all trainings and activities related to programs.
  • Creates monthly menus following variety of compliance audit regulations.
  • Contributes to long range planning for the Nutrition department.
  • Coordinates with Director of Nutrition in preparation of program strategies and budget.
  • Assists Director of Nutrition to actively seek and monitor funding opportunities such as available grants to help grow programs for Nutrition services.
  • Assists Director of Nutrition in development and implementation of department budgets, department operating structure, and facilities planning.
  • Leads process for recruitment, hiring, supervision, evaluation, transfer, and disciplinary actions including termination for assigned sites.
  • Assists with highly confidential employee issues, leading investigations and making recommendations regarding outcomes.
  • Assures efficient and effective performance of assigned staff within district policies and procedures by assigning, supervising, and scheduling their work.
  • Applied for equipment and program grants.

Supervisor

Adventist Medical Center
01.2014 - 11.2017
  • Directs, supervises and coordinates staff activities throughout the shift to ensure proper work flow and procedures are being followed.
  • Establishes daily work schedules, and adjusts work schedules and assignments when required to maintain adequate coverage and fills in for other staff, as needed.
  • Continually evaluating food quality and makes recommendations communicating desired changes in an educational non-demeaning manner.
  • Participates and provides creative input for development and implementation of projects.
  • Assists department director in cash management.
  • Supervise and assist as needed in catering events to ensure time lines are met and quality product and service is provided.
  • Performed annual evaluations and reviews for over 20 employees.
  • Identified individual employee's unique work styles and adapted management methods.
  • Interviewed, hired and trained new employees for production positions.

District Training Manager

Healthcare Services Group
06.2011 - 09.2013
  • Train all new kitchen managers in the Northwest area to run health care facility kitchens for both operational and clinical aspects of running a healthcare kitchen.
  • Oversaw over 30 employees in my area.
  • In charge of all hiring for diet aides, cooks, and managers.
  • Completed regular daily sanitation audits, tray audits, monthly sanitation audits, inventory, and unit inspections for several buildings.
  • Also managed budgets and payroll for three facilities.
  • Clinical included training for MDS section K, care planning, initial dietary interviews, running nutrition at risk meetings, interviewing and counseling/educating residents and their families.

Dietary Manager

Holiday Park Plaza
02.2010 - 06.2011
  • Managed, trained, in-serviced, hired, and disciplined dietary staff.
  • Was in charge of ordering food and supplements from both USfoods and Sysco, completing section K of MDS, interviewing new admits, writing care plans, counseling residents and families, leading cooking seminars during health fairs, attending care conferences, and working to improve the quality of service provided to residents.
  • Used outlook, Microsoft word, excel, wincare, citrix, matrix 3.0, and point click care.

Park Ranger

Clackamas County Parks - Oregon
06.2007 - 10.2008

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nutrition and Food Management

Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
2009

Skills

  • Effective time management
  • Strong oral and written communication 
  • Team building
  • Excellent customer service
  •  Critical thinking
  • Hiring, Training, Mentoring
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Highly organized
  • Creative problem solver
  • Catering experience
  • Budget management 

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

RemoteHybridOn-Site

Timeline

Nutrition Services Site Supervisor

Reynolds School District 7
11.2017 - Current

Supervisor

Adventist Medical Center
01.2014 - 11.2017

District Training Manager

Healthcare Services Group
06.2011 - 09.2013

Dietary Manager

Holiday Park Plaza
02.2010 - 06.2011

Park Ranger

Clackamas County Parks - Oregon
06.2007 - 10.2008

Bachelor of Science - Nutrition and Food Management

Oregon State University

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