Catering Assistant

The Tops; North Nowra; On-site; AUD 30,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Uniform Provided

Salary packaging

Job summary

Fresh Hope Communities seeks a Catering Assistant at Clelland Lodge, Nowra NSW. This casual role focuses on providing personalised dining experiences for residents, maintaining food safety, and assisting kitchen operations to support a home-like environment.

You will work with a caring team to ensure meals are served on time, with variety and nutrition, while delivering excellent resident-focused service and dining room support.

Qualifications

• Experience in hospitality or care services, ideally within residential aged care.
• Ability to provide personalised service to residents and work in a team.
• Comfortable using IT systems and learning new tools.

Responsibilities

• Ensure meals are provided to residents at their chosen mealtimes.
• Provide varied, nutritious meals and maintain food safety practices.
• Prepare meals and drinks, distribute to residents, assist the chef and kitchen duties.
• Deliver dining room service and uphold core values in interactions.

Skills

Hospitality experience

Care services experience

Team player

Clear communication

Education

Qualifications a plus

Tools

IT systems

Job description

As a Catering Assistant you will enhance residentsdining experience by ensuring a personalised, customer-focused approach tomealtimes while maintaining food safety practices. We want our residents diningexperience to feel home-like and for everyone to feel supported and engaged byyou.

• Casual positions at Clelland Lodge in Nowra NSW.
• Your contribution counts – focused initiatives to reward and recognise our teams
• Salary packaging – increased take home pay through salary packaging including novated leasing options
• Uniform Provided

Your Contribution;

You can support this individualized care model by:

• Ensuring food is provided to residents at their chosen mealtime
• Provide a varied and nutritional food service, which meets the needs of the aged residents within the residential aged care setting.
• Provide excellent personalised service to our residents.
• Prepare meals and drinks.
• Distribute meals to residents, assisting the chef with meal preparation, cleaning and general kitchen duties.
• Dining room services.
• Exhibit our values of Kindness,Integrity, Connection and Optimism in all interactions

What You Bring

• Youbring experience in hospitality or care services, ideally withinresidential aged care, qualifications a plus
• You’rewarm, approachable and communicate clearly with residents and team members
• You’recomfortable using IT systems and open to learning new tools
• Youwork well in a team and always put residents at the centre of what you do
• You’rephysically capable of handling a hands-on role and ready to pitch in whereneeded
• Youhold (or are willing to obtain) a current National Criminal History Checksuitable for aged care
  

About Us

Fresh Hope Communities exists to create spaces that cultivate belonging and places that feel like home.
For almost 90 years, we have been providing quality support and lifestyle choices across retirement, residential and respite settings, as well as conference and outdoor adventure experiences for school and community groups. We have over 1100 staff and together we service residents and customers across NSW.
For more about us visit our website https://www.freshhope.org.au