Team Leader

**Food Services Team Leader – Gown & Glove Restaurant | The Wesley Hospital*** **Employment Term:** Permanent Full Time* **Location:** Auchenflower – Brisbane* **Remuneration:** $35.32 p/hr + 12% Super + NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take home pay)* **Applications Close:** 15th of September 2025**Make a meaningful difference with The Wesley Private 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 Team Leader 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 our Wesley Hospital team**Working in The Wesley Gown & Glove Restaurant, the Team Leader position is responsible for the efficient delivery and supervision of all activities in the food services department. You will be responsible for basic meal preparation, portioning and serving of hot and cold meals including dishwashing, assembly, distribution and collection of meal trays to customers.
• As a hands-on-leader you will supervise and coordinate all front of house activities to achieve a high standard and optimise customer hospitality experience
• Ensure a high standard of hygiene and safety throughout the food services department that complies with the hospital food safety program
• Ensure all rostered staff are present and leave is replaced to ensure full coverage
• Work as a team member and provide flexibility to rotate through all shifts and areas in the role of Team Leader* Previous experience in a supervisory role in a food service and/or hospitality environment providing customer service* Demonstrated understanding and competencies in manual handling training, chemical use, hand hygiene and food safety* Excellent interpersonal communication skills that demonstrate ability to communicate (written and verbally) effectively within a team environment* Demonstrated ability to manage several tasks at a time, using initiative and flexibility* Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to work well within a team* Ability to read, measure accurately and perform basic math skills* Basic computer/keyboard and telephone etiquette skills* Basic computer literacy in Microsoft Office* These roles require a degree of physical fitness as you will be working on your feet all day. This may include lifting kitchen equipment and/or pushing heavy trolleys throughout the kitchen and hospital environment * **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:* **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 iswelcome 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.*We're on a mission to make a meaningful difference every day, working with thousands of Australians to ensure they live life in all its fullness. We want people who are great as individuals, and even better in a team. People who stand up for what is right. Who are open to new ideas. Who champion innovation. Who lead through learning, and lead by example. So, if you're looking for an opportunity to make a meaningful difference, to grow, thrive and to be rewarded, it's time you joined our UnitingCare familiy.We invite you to to assist us in finding a position that aligns with your interests and skills. Let's make a meaningful difference, together. **Job Alerts for future opportunities** Set up Job Alerts to view future opportunities. New users can click from the Sign-in screen.
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