Catering Assistant in Aged Care

Complete Staff Solutions; Canberra; On-site; AUD 34,440,000 - 44,083,000; Full time

Job summary

Complete Staff Solutions is seeking experienced catering staff to work in the main kitchen and serving areas of aged care facilities in Farrer and Red Hill, Canberra. These casual positions offer variable hours and short-notice shifts.

The role focuses on providing food services to residents and includes some cleaning duties to support a busy kitchen environment. Applicants must have kitchen experience, current police clearance, flu vaccination, and a valid driver’s licence with reliable

Qualifications

• At least 6 months experience working within a kitchen is required.
• Current police clearance or willingness to obtain one before starting.
• Influenza vaccination (2026 flu shot) is required.
• A current driver’s licence and reliable transport.

Responsibilities

• Assemble meal trays for residents according to daily menu selections.
• Serve residents following dietary sheets to ensure correct meal consistency.
• Deliver meal trays to residents according to the time schedule.
• Heat food to appropriate levels before serving.
• Operate the dishwashing machine and ensure cleanliness of kitchen fixtures.
• Stack and store items after washing and maintain tidy kitchen areas.
• Record temperatures of food, fridge, freezers and dishwasher accurately.
• Label food and store appropriately.
• Set up and pack away dining areas.
• Maintain high standards of personal presentation and hygiene.

Skills

Kitchen experience

Job description

We are currently looking for experienced Catering Staff to work within the main kitchen and serving areas of Aged Care facilities located in Farrer and Red Hill.

These are casual positions, which means your hours will vary from week to week and shifts may be at short notice.

The kitchen environments are very busy so you must be able to multi-task and work well under pressure.

About the role

The primary duties and responsibilities of this role is to provide food services to residents in accordance with policies, procedures and Food Safety Standards. This role also requires cleaning of assigned areas.

Key responsibilities

• Assembly of meal trays for residents according to selections on daily menu lists
• Follow dietary sheets to serve residents the correct meal consistency
• Delivery of meal trays to residents according to the established time schedule
• Heating food to the appropriate levels before serving.
• Operation of dishwashing machine
• Stacking and storage of items after washing
• Clean specified fixtures, fittings and equipment while maintaining a tidy kitchen.
• Recording temperatures of food, fridge, freezers and dishwasher accurately.
• Labelling food and storing appropriately.
• Set up / pack away dining areas.
• Maintain a high standard of personal presentation and hygiene.

To be successful you must have:

• At least 6 months experience working within a kitchen is required
• A current police clearance or be willing to obtain one before commencing work
• Received the 2026 Influenza vaccination (Flu Shot)
• A current driver's licence and reliable transport