Cook

Join a friendly and supportive team in a busy café environment. Bring creativity, consistency, and care to every meal you prepare. Enjoy great employee benefits, career growth, and salary packaging opportunities. Transform lives, every single day.

Do you want a career that means more? Are you a culinary expert with a passion for serving others? Do you take pride in preparing quality meals, enjoy working in a fast-paced kitchen, and value excellent customer service? Join Anglicare as a Cook and help us nourish our residents, body, and soul, through delicious, healthy meals served with care!

Your opportunity:

• As a Cook (Casual), you will ensure a high standard of food and service to Café customers and functions through preparation of safe, quality food products and service clients and customers’ needs by leading and completing tasks and attending to all aspects of health and safety.

With integrity and resilience, you will:

• Prepare and present quality meals in accordance with approved menus and recipes.
• Maintain food safety, HACCP, and WHS standards.
• Manage stock rotation, stock control, and assist with ordering.
• Support café and function service delivery as directed.
• Provide excellent customer service to residents and guests.
• Follow operational procedures, policies, and instructions from management.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and efficient kitchen environment.

What you’ll bring:

• You will be a customer-focused Cook with commercial kitchen experience, strong food safety knowledge, and excellent time management skills.
• You will bring a positive team attitude, attention to detail, and a passion for preparing high-quality meals and delivering great resident experiences.

What’s required:

• Previous experience in food preparation or kitchen environments.
• Sound knowledge of safe food handling practices.
• Ability to follow structured recipes and food safety procedures.
• Strong attention to detail and time management skills.
• Commercial Cookery Certificate or equivalent.
• A willingness to contribute to a positive, client-focused team culture.

What’s preferred:

• Food Safety or Food Handling Certificate.
• Experience working in aged care, hospital, or production kitchen settings.

Why Anglicare?

We provide meaningful opportunities and choice, both for the individuals and communities we support and the dedicated people here who make it happen. At Anglicare, you’ll get the security, stability and opportunities that come with a strong, well-established organisation that’s ready for the future. You’ll belong to a community of kind, humble and respectful people of all faiths and backgrounds. You will also be supported to gain new knowledge, deepen your experience and expertise, and shape a rewarding career.

On top of that, here are just some of the tangible benefits you will enjoy in a career with us:

• Flexible work options to get the most out of work and life.
• Pay less tax on your income and increase your take home pay. With salary packaging, up to $15,900 of your income is tax free.
• Spend up to $2,650 on accommodation, meals, and entertainment also tax free with salary packaging.
• Ongoing professional development and leadership training to advance your career.
• Exclusive discounts to over 400 retailers.
• Employee Assistance Program and Fitness Passport with discounts to over 800 gyms for you and your family.

Are you ready for a career that means more? Anglicare is as wonderfully diverse as the customers and communities we support. While we are guided by our Christian-based values, our team includes people of all faiths and backgrounds who share our commitment to serving others, and we value the diverse perspectives they bring. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, genders, abilities, and cultural backgrounds.

Application Close Date: October 31, 2026