Food Service Assistant

5 days ago


Flemington, Australia The Royal Children's Hospital Full time

**Date**:6 May 2024

**Location**: 50 Flemington Rd, AU

**Company**:theroyalch

**The Hospital**:
The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Pediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatric and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here.
- Parkville, Melbourne location
- Friendly and supportive environment
- Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging

**About the Role**

This Casual position within the Nutrition and Food Services Department requires great flexibility and must have good availability across seven days of the week to fill in planned and unplanned leave shifts at short notice. You will work as part of the RCH Food Service Team assisting with activities involved with food and/or formula production, distribution and food storage to ensure patients receive high quality meals and feeds in a timely and accurate manner. The position involves being cross-trained across a variety of roles including assisting with patient meal set-up, delivering patient meals to the bedside, collecting patient meal trays and dish-washing, and may also include duties in the central formula room including bottle washing and preparation of infant formula/enteral feeds. Kitchen hand duties include kitchen cleaning and sanitising, dishwashing and pot-washing, waste management, salad and sandwich preparation, assisting with patient meal set-up. Storeperson duties include ordering and receing of goods, maintaining stock in storerooms, delivery of supplies to the ward areas, and other duties as required.

Classification for this position will range from IN13 - IN14, Food and Domestic Assistant Grade 1 to Food and Domestic Assistant Grade 2 (FTE base salary $51,625 to $53,508 per annum, plus superannuation)

**What you’ll achieve**:

- Work as part of a team to achieve high quality patient service
- Comply with the principles of food safety and the RCH Food Safety Program to ensure feeds are handled safely at all times
- Comply with all hospital and departmental policies and procedures
- Willingness to undertake a variety of tasks as needed

**Your skills and experience**:

- Previous experience in health or hospitality setting in a similar role an advantage
- Ability to read & write English, sufficient to understand verbal & written instructions and communicate with other staff and with families
- High standard of personal presentation and hygiene
- Good literacy and numeracy skills
- Food Allergy Training Certificate
- Food Handling Certificate Level 1 (Basic Food Safety)

If this sounds like you, click **here** to view the position description.

**About the Nutrition and Food Services Department**

The Department of Nutrition and Food Services at The Royal Children's Hospital incorporates the clinical dietetic service, the Main Kitchen that caters for inpatient meals and the Central Formula Room that produces formula,

enteral feeds and fortifies expressed breast milk to meet the nutritional needs of patients.

**What we offer**:

- Staff Wellbeing Hub
- Discounted on-site car parking

**Other Requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willing to obtain
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application process**

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

**Why work at the RCH?**

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be fully vaccinated



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