Job Description

Dining Hosts | The Wesley Hospital | Food Service Restaurant team

• Employment Term: Casual opportunities available

• Location: Auchenflower, The Wesley Hospital is just 5 mins from Toowong Shopping Village and 10 mins from Brisbane City

• Remuneration: $29.02 p/h + Casual Loading + 12% Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances

• Applications Close: 20th of April 2026

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. This includes the busiest robotic surgery program and the first Robotic Surgery Centre of Excellence accredited in Australia.

An integral part of our team, as a Dining Host 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. Let’s make a meaningful difference, together!

Your part in The Wesley Hospital team

Working in The Wesley Gown & Glove Restaurant, you will be responsible for providing a high-quality customer service to all customers including patients, staff and visitors.

Duties will include basic meal preparation, portioning and service of hot and cold food, coffee making, cash handling, product knowledge and pricing, maintaining and replenishing floor stock supplies.

Working as a member in our Food Services Restaurant team you will:

• Be part of our experienced team providing food services in one of Australia’s iconic private, not-for-profit hospitals

• Be provided with opportunities for growth now that we have implemented our on demand, hotel-style room service model

• Be working with skilled chefs producing high quality cuisine for our patients, guests and various executive functions

• Have the opportunity to apply your skills in a varied food services role; meal preparation and delivery, call centre digital order processing and customer service

• Be able to 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

What makes a difference for us?

Using your customer service and communication skills, you’ll work effectively with your team and demonstrate:

• Previous experience in customer service, within healthcare or a hospital environment will be desirable

• Experience in food service, preparation and delivery

• Barista skills desirable but not essential, training provided

• A professional attitude with excellent presentation and customer service skills

• Ability to work across a roster spanning Monday to Sunday (inclusive), between the hours of 5:30am and 9:30pm

• 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. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance

• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs

• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme

• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events

• 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

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family

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 of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.

Child safe, Child friendly

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

Diversity & Inclusion

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. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.  

Safe workplace

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.