Kitchen Hand

**For the love of food**

Your food journey starts here. As a Kitchen Hand at Guardian Altona North you will be using and developing your skills and knowledge to support young children to grow and thrive.

You will be working with our Chef creating menus full of delicious and nutritious snacks and meals for children and their Educators, plus being part of the learning experience when they help you prepare food, forage from the garden and learn about what they're eating.

When you join Guardian, you will be contributing to a Team effort to create awesome learning experiences for children in a safe and secure environment. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with Educators and Teachers to make food part of the learning journey and have the satisfaction of seeing how children respond to new and wonderful flavours. In addition, you will have a great place to work, filled with exciting opportunities to grow your career. In return, we'll give you a great place to work, incredible colleagues, and
**benefits **that include:

- **Be part of the amazing journey** supporting children to be brave, curious, and imaginative in their learning.
- **Lead your ongoing professional development and learning** through exceptional coaching, conferences, mentoring, and career advancement opportunities.
- **Use your skills and experience** to support children to grow and thrive, and develop a love for food
- **Work in high-quality, well-resourced environments** for children and Teams
- **Enjoy a competitive salary and financial benefits,** including attractive remuneration packages, generous childcare discounts, recognition and rewards, and an employee referral program
- **Flexible work options.**:

- **WHEREFIT** - 2,000 discounted corporate offers at up to 50% off for gyms, studios, activewear, healthy meals, beauty and more...
- **Guardian Degree program** - We can support you by offering paid study, flexible work hours, guardian mentors and reimbursement of course fees, because we want to see you succeed. (Terms & conditions apply)
- **Paid first aid courses and renewals**

**The Centre**

Altona North is our 186-place centre with a range of resource-rich environments, including mud pits, wobbly bridge, a boat and age-specific ateliers. Located on Millers Road, the centre has parking and easy access to public transport. The light-filled and spacious centre also has access to a school hall, which we utilise as a third kinder room, light atelier and has space for our holiday care program. With a strong sustainability program, the centre boasts multiple herb and vegetable gardens, worm farms and compost bins. We are proud to have a diverse team of Educators and celebrate a variety of cultures and holidays, including our end of year concert, which brings in over 500 guests.

**The Opportunity**
Working closely with the centre Chef, you will enjoy:

- Assisting with the preparation of nutritious, well-presented, and appropriate meals and snacks for the children within the centre
- Ensuring each meal respects individual requirements regarding medical conditions, food preferences and cultural considerations
- Ensure children's health and wellbeing
- Building strong relationships with the centre Chef, the children, educators, families, and the entire centre community
- Ensure best practice food safety and hygienic standards are always upheld.

**To be considered, you will have**:

- Food Handling certificate
- Food Safety Supervisor Certificate (desirable)
- Certificate III in Commercial Cookery or working towards (desirable)
- An awareness of your personal responsibilities under the current Child Protection Laws
- Current Working with Children's Check or state equivalent.

So, what are you waiting for? Take the leap and

**Referrals**
We offer referrals for Guardian employees so join us and bring a friend to refer and earn. For more details, visit: guardian.edu.au/careers/refer-your-friends

Guardian Childcare & Education values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We are committed to providing a workplace where every person is valued, respected, and supported to progress.

We are also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel a strong sense of belonging and connection.

The safety and wellbeing of children will always be our top priority, Guardian Childcare & Education has a zero tolerance for any form of child abuse or harm.