Catering & Housekeeping Manager

Mercy Health is seeking a passionate Catering & Housekeeping Manager for our brand-new home, Our Lady Mercy Place Harris Park. The home offers healthy ageing in the heart of Harris Park, with a focus on family, friendship and community, delivering on a long-held vision held by the Maronite Catholic Community to offer better living for people as they age.
- The role, reporting to the Service Manager will provide leadership and manage the catering, housekeeping and laundry services.
- Manage the catering service, ensuring that the residents are provided with a variety of nutritious meals whilst maintaining health regulation compliancy
- Manage the housekeeping and laundry services, ensuring that the residents receive efficient and effective services, with all the requirements met in accordance with relevant policies, procedures and regulatory standards

**ABOUT YOU**:

- Relevant Qualification as a Chef or Cook are essential
- Demonstrated experience in supervision and management of a large team
- Working knowledge of OHS standards and food safety standards
- Ability to operate in a busy team environment
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills, both written & verbal
- Prior experience in preparation & cooking techniques for a large number of people
- Experience in menu coordination including development of recipes tailored to an aged care environment
- Experience in managing housekeeping and laundry functions
- To be successful in this role you must be an experienced leader with a true passion for working in aged care. Establishing yourself as a respected leader, you will mentor others, provide hospitality related coaching and direction to staff; you will be a positive, proactive and highly organised individual with excellent communication skills. With your experience in a similar role, you will have a solid understanding of catering, housekeeping and laundry functions. You have a good grasp of financial and people management, supporting the overall strategic goals of the organisation.

**ABOUT US**:

- Mercy Health is a Catholic organisation grounded in a 2,000-year tradition of caring for others. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Health is made up of more than 9,500 people who provide acute and subacute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, maternity and specialist women’s health services, early parenting services, home care services and health worker training and development.
- Mercy Health is proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the WGEA.

**WHAT WE OFFER**:

- Mercy Health recognises that people are searching for meaning in their work life and finding a workplace that connects with their values is a key motivation when choosing an employer. As a not-for-profit healthcare provider, Mercy Health has a strong mission and clear values that guide us in everything we do. We pride ourselves on:

- caring for our people and those important to them with generous employee assistance available for employees and their families
- protecting children and vulnerable people in all our services, by listening to them and having zero tolerance of any form of abuse and neglect
- taking a stand against climate change, which is one of the biggest threats to the health of the world and all humanity, and committing to action that will help make our world fairer and more sustainable
- offering benefits such as generous salary packaging, purchased leave, career progression and development opportunities, access to health and wellbeing programs and a range of discounts across a diverse portfolio of financial, healthcare, travel and other services.

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED**:

- Proof of vaccination status consistent with public health orders and with Mercy Health’s policy (includes but is not limited to COVID-19 and seasonal influenza vaccination compliance requirement).
- If you have any questions or require any adjustments to ensure a fair and equitable interview and selection process, please contact us on the details below.

Vinu Sreekumar Nair

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