Lead, Food & Nutrition Services - La Jolla
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The Lead for Food and Nutrition Services oversees staff and serves as the person in charge on weekends and when the supervisor is unavailable. The role provides leadership and coordination across food service operations, including food handling, production, menu development, inventory, customer service, sanitation, and department functions. It also participates in planning and preparing meals for patients, the cafeteria, and catering or special events.
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This is a full-time position located at our Scripps Memorial campus in La Jolla, must be available to work a varied shift including (6:00am-2:30pm and 12:00pm-8:30pm) and varied schedule including weekends.
Join the Scripps Health team and work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-centered healthcare. Receive endless appreciation while you build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations nationwide.
Why join Scripps Health?
At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered, and your abilities are appreciated:
- Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
- Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2025.
- Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
- Beckers Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2024 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
- We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.
- Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.
Great Opportunity to join our Food Service Team at our Scripps Memorial La Jolla Campus. Our team is dedicated to serving the community with the highest quality of patient care experience. Scripps Memorial La Jolla has been one of Southern California’s premier medical centers for more than 90 years.
As the Lead for Food and Nutrition Services, your main duties will include oversight of staff to ensure tasks are completed appropriately. You will also be the person in charge on weekends and when the supervisor is unavailable. You will provide leadership and coordination in the following Food Service operational systems: safe food handling, volume food production, menu development and modification, meal assembly and portion control, inventory management, food service equipment operations, customer service, human resources management, financial performance, infection control/sanitation and overall department function. Participates in the planning, coordination, preparation and volume production of meals for patients, cafeteria, and catering/special events. Complies with TJC, Title XXII and other regulations.
Required Qualifications:
- One year experience in food and nutrition services
- Must be able to speak, read, and write English
- ServSafe Manager Food Protection Certification
Preferred Qualifications:
- One year of leadership experience in food service industry
- Experience in healthcare food service
- Experience in kitchen sanitation operations
- Associate Degree in related field or Certified Dietary Manager
Job: *Food / Nutrition
Organization: *Scripps La Jolla Hospital
Title: Lead, Food & Nutrition Services - La Jolla
Location: Central San Diego County-LA JOLLA-SCRIPPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LA JOLLA
Requisition ID: 262006207
How this job compares
Set against the 3,008 open Food Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$68–85K/yr90 salary ranges
- California median$22–24/hr144 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 176 open Food Service jobs in California and 3,008 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Red Robin40 open
- Compass Group, North America19 open
- Chipotle Mexican Grill13 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Food Service postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (405 postings).
- Education
- 19 of the 3,008 open Food Service jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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