Kitchen Assistant

JobSpace; Whakatāne; On-site; NZD 28,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora seeks a part-time Kitchen Assistant to support the hospital kitchen department in Whakatāne. The role involves a fortnightly 40-hour roster including weekends, with duties spanning serving beverages, delivering items to patients, and dishwashing.

You will work as part of a team, maintaining cleanliness and following instructions to deliver patient meals and services. The successful candidate will have experience in kitchen hygiene, food handling, strong

Qualifications

• Experience cleaning kitchen equipment and work areas to sanitised standards.
• Knowledge of food handling, chopping, peeling and portioning meals per dietary requirements.
• Strong organisational skills with high attention to detail and ability to work under pressure.
• Effective communication and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Delivering newspapers and water jugs to patients.
• Handing out menus to patients.
• Collecting trays from food trolleys.
• Serving cups of tea and coffee to patients.
• Unloading and dishwashing duties.

Skills

Clean kitchen equipment

Food handling knowledge

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Ability to work unsupervised

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

Working with an experienced and diverse team we are looking for an individual who must be able to work over a fortnightly roster including weekends in our Kitchen Department. This role is permanent part-time working 40 hours per fortnight.

This role involves many tasks and opportunity to grow your skills on the job. Some of the tasks involved are:

• Delivering newspapers and water jugs to patients
• Handing out menus to patients
• Collecting trays on food trollies
• Serving cups of tea and coffee to patients
• Unloading and dishwashing duties

In this role we work as a team, everyone has the responsibility to maintain the Kitchen to a clean standard. Our ideal candidate must be able to work unsupervised, show initiative, follows instructions easily, good work ethic and can work in a fast-paced environment.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Ability to clean kitchen equipment, utensils, and work areas to ensure a sanitised environment.
• Knowledge of food handling, chopping, peeling, and portioning meals according to dietary requirements.
• Well-developed organisational skills with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy and the ability to work well under pressure
• Highly effective communicator and complex problem solver

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.