About the Role
Lead an Aged Care Kitchen Where Great Food Creates Great Moments. Oversee kitchen and dining services, ensuring residents enjoy safe, nutritious, and delicious meals served with genuine care. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a team and create memorable dining experiences within a supportive environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team delivering exceptional kitchen and dining services.
- Oversee meal preparation, food presentation, and service to ensure every resident enjoys a positive dining experience.
- Manage kitchen operations including ordering, stock control, rostering, and food budgets.
- Ensure compliance with Food Safety Programs, HACCP principles, and food safety legislation.
- Support residents with diverse dietary, allergy, cultural, and texture-modified meal requirements.
- Partner with clinical and lifestyle teams to continually improve menus and resident satisfaction.
- Coach, mentor, and develop your team while fostering a positive food safety culture.
- Drive continuous improvement across food quality, service standards, and compliance.
Requirements
- Experienced hospitality leader with a Commercial Cookery qualification (or equivalent).
- Supervisory experience.
- Commitment to food safety and quality.
- Genuine desire to inspire teams while living values of compassion, respect, and excellence.
- Experience leading kitchen or food service teams.
- Strong knowledge of food safety, HACCP, and compliance.
- Experience managing food ordering, stock control, and budgets.
- Confidence leading teams and building positive workplace culture.
- Experience working with special diets, allergens, or texture-modified meals is highly regarded.
- Commercial Cookery qualification (or equivalent experience) is desirable.
- Successful completion of background checks and NDIS Worker Screening Check Clearance may be required.
Skills
- Leadership
- Team Development
- Food Safety
- HACCP
- Compliance
- Stock Control
- Budget Management
- Menu Improvement
- Resident Satisfaction
- Mentoring
- Continuous Improvement
Location
- Brian King Gardens, Castle Hill
Work Type
- Permanent Full Time
Experience Level
- Supervisory experience
- Leadership experience
Education Level
- Commercial Cookery qualification (or equivalent)
Benefits
- Flexible work options
- Salary packaging
- Ongoing professional development and leadership training
- Exclusive discounts to over 400 retailers
- Employee Assistance Program
- Fitness Passport with discounts to over 800 gyms
About the Company
- For 170 years Anglicare has been serving those in need - providing care to older people and services to the vulnerable.
- Anglicare employs 6,000 staff and is supported by 1,500 volunteers.
- Provides meaningful opportunities and choice for individuals, communities, and employees.
- Offers security, stability, and opportunities within a strong, well-established organisation.
- A community of kind, humble, and respectful people of all faiths and backgrounds.
- Support for gaining new knowledge, deepening experience and expertise, and shaping a rewarding career.
Equal Opportunity
- Anglicare is as wonderfully diverse as the customers and communities we support.
- Team includes people of all faiths and backgrounds who share a commitment to serving others.
- Values the diverse perspectives people bring.
- Strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, genders, abilities, and cultural backgrounds.
