Menu Monitor

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Health and Allied Health

Reference: 46300

**Austin Health** is one of Victoria’s largest health care providers. Our 11,000 employees and volunteers provide safe, high quality, person-centred care at Austin Hospital, Olivia Newton-John Centre, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre, as well as in the community through Hospital-in-the-Home and partner health services. We are an internationally recognised leader in clinical teaching, training and research and have affiliations with many leading universities and research institutes. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the department**:
The Austin Health Food Services Department is an in-house service which consists of the following business unit:
**Patient Food Services**: provides patient meals for all Austin Health campus’ as well as providing a patient meals service to Royal Women’s Hospital. Currently the Austin Health Patient Food Services Department is plating approximately 2700 cook/chill meals each day. Food Services has 138 staff.

**About the role**:
The key purpose of the role is to take meal orders from patients whilst ensuring compliance with dietary needs and requirements along with inserting collected data into the patient meal ordering system i.e., Chefmax.

**Hours per week**: 35 Hrs P/W

**Employment status**: Permanent Part-time etc

**Appointment period: Permanent Ongoing**

**Additional notes**: Must Be available across all shifts and ability to work in different sites

As **a Menu Monitor** you will be responsible for...
- Holds a sound knowledge of patient meal ordering systems e.g., Chefmax
- Assist patients with meal selection as required as per diet codes and to assist with patient meal service enquiries
- Collect and process patient menu information and production requirements for the Food Services Department in the required allocated period.
- Key interface point with Nursing, Patient Food Services, Nutrition & Dietetics and Speech Pathology staff to ensure patients’ meal selection and nutritional requirements are met as well as with Larder, Short Order, and production requirements.
- Menu monitors are responsible and accountable for all ordering of diet meal requirements.

**To be successful for this role you must**:

- Holds a sound knowledge of patient meal ordering systems e.g., Chefmax
- Assist patients with meal selection as required as per diet codes and to assist with patient meal service enquiries
- Collect and process patient menu information and production requirements for the Food Services Department in the required allocated period.
- Key interface point with Nursing, Patient Food Services, Nutrition & Dietetics and Speech P
- Menu monitors are responsible and accountable for all ordering of diet meal requirements.
- To follow all Dietary Guidelines as outlined by Nutrition and Speech Pathologists.
- To work across sites
- Ability to work in a team environment and work independently as required.
- Live Austin Values with patients and people every day.
- To be available for duty across 7 days per week

Any other duties as directed by the Patient Food Service Supervisor on duty as well as Food Services Management

**Our benefits**:
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging

A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program

Mentoring and career development opportunities

Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

Five weeks annual leave, plus purchased leave options

**Inclusion at Austin**:
**Application instructions**:
Cover letter

Current Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Proof of Identification (current passport or Australian drivers licence)

Working with Children’s Check Card (where applicable)