At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team delivering top-notch catering, cleaning, and laundry services in healthcare.
- Company: Join the Yorke and Northern Local Health Network, committed to quality patient care.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, superannuation, salary packaging, and flexible work options.
- Other info: Diverse workplace with strong career growth opportunities and support for all backgrounds.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in healthcare while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in catering and team leadership; trade qualifications preferred.
The predicted salary is between 80400 - 81400 $ per year.
Yorke and Northern Local Health Network, Laura
Salary: WHD7 - $1,541.90 to $1,561.43 per week + super + salary sacrifice packaging
Employment: Full Time - Ongoing Permanent Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
Lead the Team Behind Exceptional Patient Services
Are you an experienced catering professional with a passion for leading people and delivering quality support services? Join our team as a Catering & Utility Team Leader, where you'll play a vital role in ensuring patients, residents and staff receive high-quality catering, cleaning, linen and laundry services every day.
About the Role
As the Catering & Utility Team Leader, you'll coordinate and support a dedicated team responsible for catering, cleaning, linen and laundry services, ensuring they are delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard. You'll provide day to day leadership, oversee work allocation and rostering, support staff development and maintain quality service delivery. You may also be required to undertake cook duties when needed.
What We're Looking For
- Trade qualifications or equivalent skills as a Cook
- Experience leading catering and support service teams
- Experience across catering, cleaning, linen and laundry services
- Strong rostering, organisational and work prioritisation skills
- Experience providing staff guidance, training and safe work practices
- Confidence using Microsoft Office applications, including Word and Excel
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds
- The ability to exercise sound judgement, initiative and problem-solving in a busy environment.
This is an opportunity to lead a valued team that helps create a safe, welcoming and supportive healthcare environment. You'll enjoy a varied leadership role where your organisational skills, operational knowledge and commitment to quality will make a genuine difference every day.
Ready to Apply?
If you're ready to take the next step in your leadership career and help deliver essential support services that keep healthcare running, we'd love to hear from you.
Important Information to Know
Yorke and Northern Local Health Network (YNLHN) is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQA+SB communities, and people living with disability and/or neurodivergence. We support workplace adjustments and welcome you to share any access or support needs during recruitment and employment. Flexible working arrangements, including part-time options, may be available and can be discussed for this role.
A career in YNLHN offers diverse opportunities, strong career development, and the chance to live and work across a unique landscape including farming regions, coastline, vineyards, and the Southern Flinders Ranges.
In addition to the annual salary and entitlements (superannuation & leave loading), we also offer salary sacrifice benefits.
For information about the eligibility for the Relocation Support working for SA Health can be found.
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements:
- DHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Check
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
- Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category B
Job ref: 951860
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.
Enquiries Ryan Ackland Executive Officer/Director of Nursing Phone: E-mail:
Application Closing Date 13 October 2026 - 11.55PM
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