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Cooks - Hawthorn / Kew

Servants Community Housing Limited

About the role

We're looking for experienced cooks to provide meals for up to 30 residents per night at our houses in Hawthorn and Kew. Mostly working individually, you will create a welcoming and friendly environment for residents, and ensure our nightly meals are a tangible demonstration of the respect and dignity we believe every individual deserves.

Our cooks work in staff-only commercial kitchens, maintain strong hygiene standards, and most importantly are a warm, joyful and gentle presence for our residents at serving time.

Specific tasks include:

  • Working 2:30 - 6:30pm shifts
  • Working individually to create meals from a set menu
  • Serving meals to residents
  • General kitchen cleaning duties, including dish washing, taking out rubbish and sanitising surfaces
  • Liaising with the Kitchen Manager for kitchen-related matters
  • Completing daily kitchen documentation for food safety requirements

About you

You will have:

  • prior kitchen experience
  • experience working in aged care, disability or other caring roles is appreciated
  • a strong understanding of food hygiene and safety practices
  • caring, patient, warm and welcoming

And you will be:

  • passionate about community
  • someone with a strong work ethic
  • able to work independently and communicate well with a team
  • an 'always on time' kind of person - you are punctual and reliable!
  • a great cook!

Working with Servants, you'll experience

  • A meaningful way to make a difference in the local community
  • A passionate, caring team
  • Flexibility, and opportunity to grow

Please note: In order to protect our residents from infection, the successful applicant must have received at least 2 vaccinations against COVID-19.

Your work will be about more than just creating cooking meals: you'll be helping provide respect and dignity to diverse people. Your patience, gentleness and love for people will help us create communities where respect, dignity, hope, and opportunity are nurtured.

To make an enquiry, contact our Kitchen Manager, Tim:

Email: [email protected] using the subject line: Cooks enquiry via EthicalJobs
Phone: 0431 517 204

How to apply

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