Food Production Chef

Chef- Food Services

• Part Time – 72 hours per fortnight
• Darlinghurst

We are seeking an experienced chef to work in our production kitchen at St Vincent’s Private Hospital to maintain high levels of professional standards in servicing patients across St Vincent’s Darlinghurst Campus.

St Vincent’s Private Hospital production kitchen is a cook fresh facility with a high quality food safety accredited meal service, producing more than 60,000 meals per month. This is a large team of approx. 40 staff in this busy kitchen. You will be directly managed by the kitchen supervisor, them reporting to the Head chef.

Over the next 12months we are looking to take the patient food offering to the next level, build a team to do what we do better, revise the patient menu, find new products and give the best service possible. Come join us on this journey.

We are a charity so you get $15000 of your salary tax free, you have access to other fringe benefits like the meal entertainment card that allows to eat out on your tax free dollars- saving you your tax rate on you dinner bill.



About the Candidate:

• High level of commitment to the philosophy, mission, values and ethics of the Mary Aikenhead Ministries and SVHA.
• Ability to interpret and follow recipes and prepare a high volume of meals in a timely manner
• Thorough understanding and ability to participate in Food Safety & WH&S programs.
• Ability to assist in the design and testing of recipes
• A high degree of personal hygiene and safe food practices
• Ability to follow a schedule and work efficiently, with the ability to take on and allocate additional work as required
• Experience working in a structured kitchen environment
• Good understanding of daily production processes to ensure food forecasted is matched to food required
• Competency working in various areas of the kitchen
• Effective time management skills and capable of a high standard of unsupervised work

Other essential requirements include:

• Minimum 2 years Food Production, processing, cooking experience in kitchen production unit.
• Commercial Cookery Certificate III
• Sound understanding of Food Safety/HACCP and all policies contained wit

If this is the role for you, please hit the APPLY button now! Your application must include:

• Cover Letter
• Resume
  
  We are committed to equal employment opportunity, ethical practices, the principles of cultural diversity and promote a smoke free work environment.
  
  St Vincent's Health Australia is committed to reconciliation and encourages Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply for all advertised positions. For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at [email protected].
  
  REQUIREMENTS:
  
  Criminal record and/or child protection checks will be conducted and will form part of the selection criteria for this role.
  
  SVPHS has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings. You are therefore required to comply with the SVHA Staff Health Screening Immunisation Policy, which, depending on the role you perform in the organisation will require you to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).
  
  SVHA requires its staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Please contact us if you would like to know more.
  
  
  If you would like to discuss this opportunity please contact Duangporn Kawin for a confidential discussion on 8382 7357 (Mon/Tue/Fri) [email protected]