Food Services Assistant

3 days ago

Melton, Australia Melton City Council Full time

**Casual Position**

**Hourly Rate $37.6841 + 10.5% Super**

**About Melton City Council**

The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality—one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.

We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.

**The Opportunity**

The City of Melton is located on the fringe of Melbourne in the rapidly expanding western corridor. The city is experiencing one of the fastest growth rates in the state and is currently seeking to fill casual position as part of the Food Services team within Community Care.

This position will participate and assist in the day to day operations of the Food Services Kitchen including meal preparation, cooking, sorting, packing, administration, cleaning and general support for the Social Support programs and Meals on Wheels Service.

If you have the ability to engage and connect with the community and take pride in making a positive impact to peoples lives then this role is for you.

The position reports directly to the Food Services Supervisor.

This role will be responsible for contributing toward a strong positive culture within the Community Care team and greater Melton City Council

**Key Responsibilities**
- Maintain a high quality day to day meal service, including food preparation, re-heating/cooking, packing, accurate labelling and distribution of meals for social support service recipients.
- Support drivers and volunteers when assisting in kitchen duties.
- Maintain a high level of kitchen cleanliness, including equipment and utensils as well as dining room meals area.
- Comply with provisions of Occupational Health and Safety, Risk Management, Food Safety Plan and other relevant legislative requirements.
- Provide high quality customer service to both internal and external customers.
- Provide basic administrative support including answering calls and enquiries, printing and signing running sheets and entering data.

**About you**

**_ To be successful in this role you will have the following:_**
- Accredited Food Safety qualifications.
- Ability to ensure compliance with provisions of Occupational Health and Safety, Risk Management, Food Safety Plan and other relevant legislative requirements.
- Experience in food preparation within a residential, community or commercial environment.
- Ability to provide recommendations about issues relating to hygiene, food safety, training needs of staff and volunteers working in the kitchen.
- Time management skills including the ability to prioritise tasks, plan, organise work and manage requests for action from customers.
- Provision of high quality customer service to internal and external customers.
- Ability to provide basic administration support including data entry and maintaining administration systems.
- Current valid Victorian drivers’ licence.

**Culture and Values**

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

- Motivate
- Empower
- Lead
- Trust
- Open
- Nurture

**Benefits**

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:

- Flexible Working Hours
- Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
- Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace accredited)
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Subsidised Uniforms

**How To Apply**

If you require further information about the position, please contact Caroline Ellison, Food Services Supervisor, on 9747 5407 or Lauren Shea, Social Connections Team Leader on 9747 7384

To view the Position Description, click here.

Applications **must** include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role.

We encourage you to use the STAR approach when writing your responses to the selection criteria.
- Situation (Task) - provide a brief outline of the situation or task?_
- Action - what did you do in response to the situation or task?_
- Result - what was the result of your action?_

To address the Key Selection Criteria you will need to write short statements explain

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