At a Glance
- Tasks: Create delicious meals for patients and events while growing your culinary skills.
- Company: Join The Wesley Hospital, a leading not-for-profit healthcare provider in Brisbane.
- Benefits: Enjoy salary packaging, flexible hours, and employee discounts.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team committed to inclusivity and community care.
- Why this job: Make a meaningful difference in people's lives through your passion for cooking.
- Qualifications: Must have Certificate III in Commercial Cookery and previous chef experience.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 $ per year.
Location: The Wesley Hospital - Auchenflower
Make a meaningful difference with The Wesley Hospital. The Wesley Hospital is one of Australia’s iconic and largest private not-for-profit hospitals. From the heart of Brisbane, more than 800 Visiting Medical Practitioners and 2,000 staff deliver personalised care through life’s journey making a meaningful difference in the lives of generations of Queenslanders. We offer comprehensive care across a wide range of acute tertiary-level medical and surgical services with a particular focus on cancer care, cardiac care, women’s and children’s care, and complex surgical care.
An integral part of our team, as a Chef in Food Services, you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about.
Your part in The Wesley Hospital team:
- Working as a Chef in our Food Services culinary team.
- Be provided with opportunities for culinary growth.
- Produce upmarket cuisine by catering for executive functions and events.
- Work in a hotel style room service kitchen operation.
- Apply your transferrable skillset from hospitality to the security of a career in the Healthcare sector.
- Have the opportunity to be a recognised member of the Institute of Hospitality in Healthcare.
Casual contracts will be offered; however, hours usually available from 16 hours per week with regular opportunities to increase hours for those who wish to do so.
What makes a difference for us?
- Be part of our qualified chef brigade producing up to 1400 meals per day.
- Using your communication skills, you’ll work effectively with your team.
Demonstrate:
- Certificate III in Commercial Cookery minimum of two years post-apprenticeship experience or equivalent.
- Previous Chef experience working in the hospitality sector; restaurants, food outlets, cafes.
- Flexibility to rotate within the main production kitchen sections.
- A professional attitude with excellent personal presentation.
- Proficiency in all aspects of food safety.
- Knowledge and understanding of HACCP principles and PPE requirements.
- Willingness to obtain required vaccinations in line with hospitals infection control requirements.
What makes a difference for you?
- NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum.
- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
- A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers.
- 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service.
- Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options.
- Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference.
- A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others.
By joining our Hospitals, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 17,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands.
UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:
- Provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children.
- Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services.
- Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur.
- Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme.
Our approach is simple– everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.
We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support.
We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.
Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.
Chef in Brisbane employer: UnitingCare Queensland
UnitingCare is an exceptional employer that offers a meaningful and rewarding work environment, particularly for those in the Senior Workplace Relations Counsel role. With a commitment to flexible work arrangements, generous salary packaging, and a strong focus on employee development, you will thrive in a culture that values respect, diversity, and inclusivity. Join a dedicated team that has been making a difference for over 100 years, supporting more than 400,000 people across Queensland and the Northern Territory.
