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Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC) is a community controlled Public Benevolent Institution delivering human services and social enterprise activities for the benefit of Aboriginal people from the Alice Springs Town Camps, urban Alice Springs, and Central Australia.
The Tangentyere Youth and Community Safety (YCS) Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people. This includes the Brown Street Youth Service, Town Camp Youth Hubs and Youth Outreach Service providing afterhours programs to young people on Town Camps and in Alice Springs. The YCS Division is increasingly working in an integrated fashion, ensuring staff and programs work together to provide holistic services for young people to achieve positive outcomes in education, safety, and wellbeing. This means that staff, including the YCS Food and Nutrition Officer, are working across program siloes to provide client and placed-based focused services that are flexible and responsive to needs.
The purpose of YCS Food and Nutrition Officer is to ensure that:
• The meals provided to young people at our programs are of a high standard in quality, nutritional value, and of interest to the young people.
• That safe food preparation practices, and the kitchen and its equipment are maintained to Territory and National Food Safety Standards and regulations.
• That young people have opportunities to learn and practice food preparation and hospitality skills in a safe and supportive environment.
The YCS Food and Nutrition Officer will have a crucial role in the support, development, and education of young people in our programs with a focus on nutrition, healthy eating, food preparation and budgeting. The Food and Nutrition Officer will be expected to
• Supervise and mentor Youth Trainees who are interested in working in the Youth Services Kitchen or gaining employment in hospitality.
• Run short cooking workshops with groups of young people as part of the Youth Program’s activity schedule including ‘Café Nights’ at 3 Brown Street.
• Prepare meals five days per week for Tangentyere’s youth programs.
The Nutrition and Food Officer is a part-time position, working Tuesdays to Saturdays.
As part of your role, you will be working with children, people with a disability and people who are vulnerable. It is your obligation to always ensure their safety and report any concerns in line with our duty of care obligations. We have zero tolerance when it comes to abuse of any kind and will take disciplinary action, including and up to termination of employment, should we determine that abuse has taken place or there has been a failure to report any suspected or alleged abuse.
Responsibilities
• Plan, prepare and cook meals for the Tangentyere Youth Programs.
• Arrange ordering and purchasing of all food and supplies in accordance with menu and budgets.
• Ensure the kitchen is kept clean and safe.
• Supervise, mentor, and educate Youth Trainees working in the kitchen.
• Facilitate cooking workshops with young people.
• Facilitate the running of food and nutrition activities at the 3 Brown St Youth Centre.
• Ensure reporting requirements are met.
• Works collaboratively in the team.
• Assist with achieving quality management objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving safeguarding objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving compliance objectives across the organisation.
• Other reasonable duties as required.
Qualifications and Selection Criteria
Required
• Experience in food and meal preparation. Commercial Kitchen of Cook experience preferred.
• Basic literacy, numeracy, and administration skills.
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload.
• Ability to plan and run food programs and engage, mentor, and educate attendees.
• First Aid Certificate (or willingness to obtain).
• Current NT Drivers Licence, NT Working with Children (Ochre) Card, satisfactory Police Check, and proof of full (3) vaccination against COVID-19.
Desired
• Food Safety & Handling certificate (and willingness to obtain).
• Ability to understand or speak one or more Aboriginal languages.
• An understanding of Aboriginal culture as well as a broad range of contemporary issues affecting Central Australian Aboriginal people.
