Chef

St Jude's Aged Care; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 39,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

St Jude's Aged Care – Bethania Gardens is seeking a dedicated Chef to lead the kitchen team at Bethania Gardens. The role focuses on maintaining high standards of food quality, nutrition compliance, and hygiene, while delivering outstanding meals to residents with a customer‑centric approach.

This permanent part‑time position requires hands‑on leadership, strong organisational skills, and a commitment to safe, tasty dining experiences for residents.

Qualifications

• Significant prior experience in the food services industry, ideally within health/aged care.
• Strong time management skills, ability to meet deadlines, and an organised, process‑driven approach.
• Priority on residents' health and safety while delivering a tasty menu.

Responsibilities

• Purchasing and stock management for the facility.
• Designing and adjusting menu items and service offerings.
• Supervising and training kitchen/hospitality staff.
• Overseeing impeccable food safety standards and practices.

Skills

Aged care food service experience

Time management

Team leadership

Hygiene and safety focus

Job description

St Jude's Aged Care – Bethania Junction QLD

St Jude’s Health Care Group is a trusted provider of Aged Care, Allied Health and Disability Services, established in 1982.With a strong reputation built over four decades and as a purpose-driven organisation, we operate with a clear philosophy:we do not provide any service that isn’t good enough for our own families.Our work is grounded in respect, integrity, commitment, and genuine partnerships with the individuals and communities we support.

Role Summary

The Chef is responsible for ensuring that the standard and quality of the food offerings, as well as the hygiene and safety procedures, are maintained to the highest of standards at all times. The role is tasked with seeking constant customer satisfaction, all while adhering to nutritional requirements. The position is designed to lead a kitchen team who will thrive on delivering outstanding food and services, with a focus on keeping their clients happy. This is a hands on role that requires dedication, attention to detail and a positive professional attitude.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Responsible for purchasing and stock management for the facility
• Designing and adjusting menu items and service offerings
• Supervising and training new kitchen/hospitality staff
• Overseeing impeccable food safety standards and practices

This role is located at our Bethania Gardens facility and will be hired on a Permanent Part time basis.

Skills, Attributes and Experience

Our ideal candidate will have significant previous experience within the food services industry, ideally within health/aged care. They will have strong time management skills, the ability to work to deadlines and the ability to maintain an organised, process-driven workplace. We are looking for someone who will be able to easily prioritise the health and safety of residents, all while delivering a menu that is creative, exciting and especially tasty! Our ideal candidate will be a natural people person who will inspire and drive the rest of their team to share in collective goal of delivering a wonderful end product to clients.

Key selection criteria includes:

• Experience working with specialised dietary requirements
• Experience designing and delivering menu's/service offerings
• Knowledge of food safety protocols/procedures for the aged care sector
• Experience leading hospitality teams or hospitality venues

St Jude's Bethania Gardens is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If the above opportunity is one that excites and encourages you, we would welcome and encourage your application. If your application is selected for progression then we will be in touch to discuss it with you soon.

Title:Chef

Date:28 Oct 2026

Location:Bethania Gardens

Business Unit:St Jude's Aged Care