Executive Chef

Your role at St John of God Frankston Hospital

You will ensure the Catering Department provides tasteful, nutritionally balanced meals of a high culinary and hygienic standard to patients and caregivers. You will be responsible for ensuring services are delivered in cost effective manner and ensuring that all Food Safety Guidelines are adhered to.

The Position

• Closely monitor productivity targets ensuring the WHPPD targets are achieved in line with correct daily rosters.
• Liaise with all catering and café caregivers to ensure effective use of resources, caregivers, equipment and facilities.
• Ensure cost efficiency in the catering department, ensuring compliance with budgetary requirements.
• Ensure services comply with relevant standards including Food Safety Regulations and Infection Control Guidelines.
• Participate and contribute to quality improvement providing a patient focused service, using Inpatient and Caregiver Surveys to identify and implement strategies to improve service quality.
• Conduct regular reviews of patient menu including discussions with patients.
• Ensure that all preparation, production and service areas are ready for use at the commencement of each shift and maintained throughout the course of the shift.
• Provide management and leadership and direction to Production caregivers within the Catering department and Cafe.

You will have a Food Safety Supervisor certificate and Certificate in Commercial Cookery. You will demonstrate previous experience in food safety programs and an understanding of HACCP principles.

To be successful, you will demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) necessary to interact effectively with people in a variety of situations and you will have experience in successfully organising and managing catering functions.

Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and Supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Salary: $66,082 to $67,709 plus 11% superannuation
• A full time permanent position, working 38 hours a week.
  • Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
  • Novated leasing
  • work related expenses
  • self-education and
  • additional superannuation
• A welcoming and supportive culture
• Dynamic multidisciplinary team
• Discounts on hospital services and health insurance
• Additional professional development

For enquiries, contact Nicki Hockley-Director of Corporate services, on

Application closes on 25th June 2024

St John of God Health Care embraces diversity and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in our care and proactively take measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.

All caregivers employed by St John of God Health Care are required to be vaccinated from Covid-19 and Influenza in order to fulfil the requirements of the role.