Food Services Assistant

Job Requisition ID: 3403
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168
- Employment Type: Part Time Fixed Term
- Posting Date: 17 Jan 2025

**Monash Health is a great place to work**

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care across south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations; via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes.

To see first-hand what our colleagues think about working here, take a look at the following short videos**:monashhealth.org/careers**.

**Embark on a rewarding career and be part of a team where your dedication makes a difference in people’s lives.**

**About the Role**:
Reporting to the Food Services Supervisor, you are part of a larger Monash Health Support Services located at the brand new first ever heart hospital team.

**Fixed-term Weekend PM shifts available**:
Part-Time Fixed-Term PM FSA Shift:
**24 hours per fortnight**
- Saturday and Sunday - 2:00pm - 8:30pm

This position is until 15 April 2025.

As a talented Food Services Assistant, you will be responsible for duties including preparation, regeneration, plating, delivery and collection of meals throughout the day. Other responsibilities include and not limited to:

- Assist in the preparation of meals
- Accurately assembling tray supplies and food on tray line
- Clean Kitchen and equipment
- Deliver, distribute, and collect all meal requirements
- Strip, sort, sanitise, and clean all trays, cutlery and utensils
- Completing all food safety documentation in a timely manner

**About Us**:
**Support Services team the "heartbeat" of Monash Health's with new Food Services Assistant Evening and Morning Shifts at the first ever Heart Hospital.**

As a **Monash Health** hospital, the **Victorian Heart Hospital** features a unique, holistic model of care with first ever cardiac services to provide tailored cardiovascular care for all Victorians, and specialised lifesaving procedures for our community. Australia’s only cardiac facility, housing world ranking Monash University and the Victorian Heart Institute, represents a powerful model of collaboration, innovation and excellence. Combining world
- class clinical care, research, education and training, all in the same facility, the heart hospital is positioned to change the story of cardiovascular disease and accelerate its global reputation. The only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, it also sets a new international benchmark for cardiac hospital design in a purpose-built facility with access to landscaped spaces exuding calm and tranquillity, to enhance the patient experience and positively impact clinical outcomes.**

**About You**:
As a talented **Food Services Assistant**, you take personal pride in providing excellent customer service and committed to meeting service delivery requirements in accordance with the Food Safety Program.

To ensure your success in this role, you will have the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge:

- Current Food Handlers Certificate - Level 1 (Essential)
- Qualification relevant to Health HLTFS207C - Follow basic food safety practice (desirable)
- Previous experience preferably within healthcare
- Experience in the delivery of Food Services including an ability to negotiate positive outcomes for patients
- Clear understanding food safety guidelines
- A competent level of verbal & written communication skills
- Excellent communication skills (verbal & written) combined with outstanding customer service skills
- Comprehensive understanding of diet codes, texture modified foods and fluids, food allergies and intolerances.
- Ability to undertake physical work including lifting, carrying and manual handling
- Basic to intermediate computer skills
- Excellent customer service skills, able to provide a friendly approach to all patients and visitors at Monash Health.

**In Return**:
Monash Health is a great place to work. We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and are committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and iCare values

**World-leading Cardiac Facility featuring**:

- Architecturally designed sustainable building, filled with colour, natural light and space
- New model of cardiac care in the delivery of patient centred excellence
- Cutting edge state-of-the-art technology and on-site education to facilitate world-leading research
- Dedicated leadership team fostering high performing talent within a tertiary hospital
- Best place in Australia to grow and further develop your career in Healthcare
- Victoria’s largest public health service employing over 22,000 people across a range of sp