When you work at Freedom Village at Brandywine, you have a front-row seat to the amazing life stories of the wisest people on earth. What’s more, you are part of an extraordinary company – one that’s investing in the future of senior living by investing in you. Don’t just do a job. Be part of an extraordinary life!

Freedom Village at Brandywine is recruiting for a hospitality focused Hostess to join our team! This is a full-time position, with the hours being 10:00 AM-6:00 PM.

Here are a few of the daily responsibilities of a Hostess:

• 1. Responsible for arranging seating accommodations and greeting residents, guests, and staff while maintaining a friendly environment.
• 2. Supervises the physical appearance of the dining room area and waitress stations including table pedestals, chairs, rugs, drapes, flooring tiles, light fixtures, etc.
• 3. Supervises the appearance of dining room tables, including table linens, napkins, silverware, table setup, centerpieces, etc.
• 4. Schedules work assignments for all dining room personnel assigning specific job and spot checking to ensure standards are met.
• 5. Maintains pertinent and appropriate resident and staff attendance records, reservations, incident reports, schedules, special functions, and assists in performing computerized resident billing transactions as needed.
• 6. Advises the Dining Room Manager regarding dining room status.
• 7. Assists with planning, scheduling, supervising, and counseling dining room personnel.
• 8. Assists bus and wait staff on the floor when needed and receives an over-all consensus on resident feed-back and satisfaction.

Here are a few of the qualifications we need you to have:

• 1. High school graduate required. Prefer courses in hospitality management or dining room operations.
• 2. A minimum of one year experience in “front of the house operations” within restaurant, hotel, club or similar institution preferred.
• 3. Ability to communicate with, understand, empathize with, work with and be tolerant of residents, patients, families, visitors, peers, supervisors, subordinates and other outside contacts.

If you're an enthusiastic, compassionate, senior care professional who is passionate about hospitality and senior engagement- please apply, we'd love to get to know you!

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