Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of older Australians? Do you enjoy helping people with everyday activities? Do you want to join a supportive and values-driven organisation?
If you answered yes to these questions, then we have an exciting opportunity to suit your own hours!
Key features
About the role
As a Day Centre Cook, you will enable individuals to live well by delivering the nutritional requirements for the clients following the BaptistCare menu and dietary information system. You understand the role food plays in sustenance, enjoyment, and connecting community, and you’ll work to bring this to fruition. You will support the onsite Social Centre and operational teams, in the cook’s absence, you will ensure food production, service standards, and compliance are maintained
We offer a competitive salary based on your previous experience from $30.30 – $37.73 /hr + superannuation + penalties + salary packaging.
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What do we need from you?
About us
BaptistCare is a leading purpose-led care organisation, guided by our Christian identity and serving people and communities across Australia for more than 110 years. We support people to live better through aged care, home care, retirement living, community services, disability support and housing.
We know that life’s challenges can make our world feel smaller. With the right people alongside us, it can feel more connected, supported and hopeful again.
That’s what we work towards every day - enriching lives through communities of care. Today, more than 70,000 customers, 12,000 employees and close to 2,000 volunteers are part of our communities across Australia.
The Employee Benefits are endless when you join Baptistcare
Enjoy access to salary packaging which may increase your take-home pay, novated leasing, rewards and recognition, programs to support your wellbeing, employee referral program and retail discounts to name a few.
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date. Closing Date is subject to change without notice.
BaptistCare – Inspired by Jesus to champion care for all.
Baptistcare is a child safe organisation that is dedicated to the safety, empowerment, and participation of all children. We have zero tolerance of child abuse and are committed to a thoughtful, protective environment that supports infants, children, and young people to feel safe and respected. In accordance with Baptistcare’s code of conduct, all Baptistcare employees are committed to keeping children safe within the organisation and act in their best interests at all times.
At Baptistcare, we value diversity in all forms and aim to co-create inclusive experiences and communities with our employees, volunteers, the people we work alongside and our partners. We are committed to diversity and inclusion across all we do and to building communities and workplaces where everyone belongs.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
