Cook

C&K Association; Strathpine; Sur place; AUD 47 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Blue Card funding

Police Check funding

No weekends or evenings

Discount on C&K childcare (up to 75%)

Résumé du poste

C&K Dixon St Early Years Centre in Queensland is hiring a Cook to prepare meals for children, using the state‑of‑the‑art kitchen and close support from the Kitchens Operations Supervisor. Responsibilities include designing menus that meet dietary needs and ensuring nutritious, kid‑friendly options.

The role offers a 25‑hour week, Monday to Friday, with no weekends or after-hours work, and the contract runs through December 2026.

Qualifications

• Certificate III in Commercial Cookery required or equivalent experience.
• Quality Food Supervisor Certificate is ideal but not mandatory.
• Clean and safe food handling practices are essential.

Connaissances

Food preparation

Menu planning

Quality control

Time management

Formation

Certificate III in Commercial Cookery

Quality Food Supervisor Certificate

Outils

Kitchen equipment operation

Food safety systems

Description du poste

At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

Come join the team C&K Dixon St Early Years Centre!

C&K Dixon St Early Years Centre is research childcare centre offering an intensive Early Childhood Education and Care program. It aims to address a critical gap in Australia’s early childhood education and care system, which is currently not set up to adequately support children living with severe levels of family stress and social disadvantage.

The objective of the intensive early childhood education and care program is that children living with significant adversity will experience a stable and enriching early learning and care program and enter school as confident and successful learners who are developmentally equal to their peers.

As our highly valued Cook with our Dixon Street team, you’ll create magical culinary experiences that nourish the bodies and minds of the children in our care.

• Monday to Friday, no weekends, nights or public holidays
• 25 hours per week - 8:00am to 1:00pm
• Fixed Term Contract - December 2026
• $33.4544 - $38.9237 per hour + Super

Using our state-of-the art kitchen, you’ll whip up delicious, nutritious meals and snacks that delight even the pickiest of tiny tastebuds, creating cherished meal-time memories and supporting children to become healthy, happy and confident lifelong learners. You will design and deliver your menu with the close support of our Kitchens Operations Supervisor to ensure all our little learner’s dietary requirements are well supported.

Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.

• Find a healthy work-life balance with family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres and discounts of up to 75% of the gap fee.
• Funded Blue Card and Police Check.
• No weekends or evenings, with set hours each and every week.
• Plus so much more!

What you’ll bring

If you’re committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success!

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

• A Certificate III in Commercial Cookery (or related discipline) and Quality Food Supervisor Certificate is ideal, but we are happy to consider unqualified applicants with experience.
• Valid Blue Card and current Police Check.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a ‘Restricted Person’ or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System.

We welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and /or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs.