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Form of workKitchen Assistant - Food Services
- Diet Aide Position
- Darlinghurst
We are seeking an experienced Kitchen Assistant/Cook to work in our production kitchen at St Vincent's Private Hospital to maintain high levels of professional standards in servicing patients across St Vincent's Darlinghurst Campus.
St Vincent's Private Hospital production kitchen is a cook fresh facility with a high quality food safety accredited meal service, producing more than 60,000 meals per month. This is a large team of approx. 40 staff in this busy kitchen. You will be directly managed by the kitchen supervisor, them reporting to the Head chef.
Over the next 12months we are looking to take the patient food offering to the next level, build a team to do what we do better, revise the patient menu, find new products and give the best service possible. Come join us on this journey.
Our benefits:
- Salary packaging of up to $15,900 per FBT year (pay less tax and increase your take home pay), with increased benefits for full-time employees such as reduction to rent or mortgage payments, vehicle leasing and a meal entertainment card up to $2,600 a year
- Generous wellbeing discounts including gym memberships through Fitness Passport, private health insurance and our on-site pharmacy
- Attractive reward and recognition program
- Options to purchase additional leave in support of work life balance
- Convenient location close to cafes, restaurants and public transport
- Opportunity to join our workplace giving program, Give4Good
About the Candidate:
- High level of commitment to the philosophy, mission, values and ethics of the Mary Aikenhead Ministries and SVHA.
- Ability to follow recipes and prepare a high volume of meal prep in a timely manner
- Thorough understanding and ability to participate in Food Safety & WH&S programs.
- A high degree of personal hygiene and safe food practices
- Good knife skills
- Ability to follow a schedule and work efficiently, with the ability to take on and allocate additional work as required
- Experience working in a structured kitchen environment
- Ability to take direction and work alone
- Effective time management skills and capable of a high standard of unsupervised work
Other essential requirements include:
- Minimum 2 years Food Production, processing, experience in kitchen production unit.
- Commercial Cookery Certificate II
- Sound understanding of Food Safety/HACCP and all policies contained within
If this is the role for you, please hit the APPLY button now! Your application must include:
- Cover Letter
- Resume
We are committed to equal employment opportunity, ethical practices, the principles of cultural diversity and promote a smoke free work environment.
St Vincent's Health Australia is committed to reconciliation and encourages Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply for all advertised positions. For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at ***************@svha.org.au.
REQUIREMENTS:
Criminal record and/or child protection checks will be conducted and will form part of the selection criteria for this role.
SVPHS has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings. You are therefore required to comply with the SVHA Staff Health Screening Immunisation Policy, which, depending on the role you perform in the organisation will require you to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including annual flu vaccinations).
SVHA requires its staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Please contact us if you would like to know more.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity please contact Sampath Shetty for a confidential discussion on 8382 7386 **************@svha.org.au
