Catering Assistant

Do you love being busy at work with a variety of tasks to make the day go faster? Well you’ll love this role!

As a Catering Assistant you will enhance residents dining experience by ensuring a personalised, customer-focused approach to mealtimes while maintaining food safety practices. We want our residents dining experience to feel home-like and for everyone to feel supported and engaged by you.

• Casual, enjoy the flexibility
• Located in Forestville, NSW
• Work flexibly—shifts to support work/life balance
• Salary packaging – increased your take home pay with salary packaging including novated leasing options
• Birthday leave – take time to celebrate with your friends and family

Your Contribution

• Ensuring food is provided to residents at their chosen mealtime
• Provide a varied and nutritional food service, which meets the needs of the aged residents within the residential aged care setting.
• Provide excellent personalised service to our residents.
• Prepare meals and drinks.
• Distribute meals to residents, assisting the chef with meal preparation, cleaning and general kitchen duties.
• Dining room services.
• Complete documentation.
• Exhibit our values of Kindness, Integrity, Connection and Optimism in all interactions

What you bring;

You bring experience in hospitality or care services, ideally within residential aged care, qualifications a plus

• You’re warm, approachable and communicate clearly with residents and team members
• You’re comfortable using IT systems and open to learning new tools
• You work well in a team and always put residents at the centre of what you do
• You’re physically capable of handling a hands-on role and ready to pitch in where needed
• You hold (or are willing to obtain) a current National Criminal History Check suitable for aged care

About Us

Communities exists to create spaces that cultivate belonging and places that feel like home.
For almost 90 years, we have been providing quality support and lifestyle choices across retirement, residential and respite settings, as well as conference and outdoor adventure experiences for school and community groups. We have over 1100 staff and together we serve residents and customers across NSW. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we value inclusion and diversity. For more about us visit our website 

We’d love to hear from you! Apply now