Chef Manager | Bupa Runaway Bay

at; Österreich; Vor Ort; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An established industry player is seeking a Chef Manager to lead a dedicated kitchen team in providing high-quality dining experiences. This role involves ensuring nutritious meals that cater to residents' preferences while maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety. You will oversee all aspects of meal preparation, manage dietary requirements, and collaborate with other teams to enhance resident activities. Join a supportive and inclusive environment where your culinary skills can shine and make a real difference in the lives of others.

Leistungen

Supportive team culture

Continual learning and development

Employee discounts

Internal transfers across care homes

Qualifikationen

• Certificate in Commercial Cookery is essential for this role.
• Experience in Aged Care or Hotel/Restaurant preferred.

Aufgaben

• Lead a high-quality dining and catering service for residents.
• Ensure all meals are fresh, nutritious, and meet dietary requirements.
• Manage food purchasing, storage, and preparation processes.

Kenntnisse

Commercial Cookery

Aged Care Experience

Time Management

Organizational Skills

Budget Management

Team Leadership

Food Audits Understanding

Interpersonal Skills

Customer Service Focus

Ausbildung

Certificate in Commercial Cookery

Jobbeschreibung

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The delightful Bupa Runaway Bay is a modern care home surrounded by beautiful nature reserves and parklands, close to the Gold Coast beaches and just an hour from Brisbane’s CBD. It consists of 108 beds, with various care units such as dementia, respite, and palliative. Our primary goal is placing our focus on the health, lifestyle, and well-being of our residents.

About the Role

As a Chef Manager, you will work with a team of Catering assistants to lead a high functioning kitchen and catering service through the provision of quality, well presented, nutritious meals that meet Resident dining preferences and needs in a home-like environment, ensuring excellence always, whilst adhering to all related quality standards and regulations.

Benefits of Bupa

• Supportive, collaborative, and caring team culture
• Continual learning and development opportunities
• Great employee discounts and benefits
• Internal transfers across our care homes

Duties

• Run an efficient, high-quality dining and catering service for the residents of the care home
• Collaborate with the Lifestyle team to ensure all activities and events are appropriately planned and catered for
• Ensure any specialist resident dietary requirements are met (e.g. diabetes, weight loss or gain)
• Prepare the main dishes for lunch and dinner
• Oversee the washing, preparation, and cooking of all foods, including vegetables, soups, sauces, gravies, desserts, sandwiches, salads, bread, and rolls
• Ensure that all meals are prepared fresh daily utilising seasonal produce
• Manage safe and correct processes in food purchasing, storage, handling, and preparation
• Implement infection control principles and practices as per infection control policies
• Complete paperwork promptly and correctly as per duty list and Quality & Assurance Processes
• Identify training needs and requirements of Catering Staff - this includes changes to processes or resident requirements, introduction to new equipment safety or environmental regulations

Skills and Experience

• Certificate in Commercial Cookery or equivalent is essential
• Aged Care /Hotel/Restaurant experience preferred
• Ideally you would have previous experience in a similar role
• Effective time management, organisational skills, and budget management
• Previous experience in leading a team is desirable and managing a budget
• Understanding of Food Audits
• Demonstrated experience working within a multidisciplinary team and ability to effectively liaise with stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills and a customer service focus

Bupa cares about creating and sustaining a safe and inclusive workplace where our team members feel they belong regardless of gender identity (including how one chooses to express it), ethnicity, disability (physical, mental and/or sensory), sexual orientation, religion or life stage. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and fostering a workplace and environment that is free of discrimination, bullying, and harassment. If you require any adjustments to participate in our recruitment process, please let us know at the time of your application.

How to Apply
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