Casual Food Monitor

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Facilities Management, Health and Allied Health, Medical

Reference: 24283

**_Menu Monitor_**

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Casual Position, variable shifts_**

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Food Services Department is responsible for providing all patient meals. Our aim is to ensure that our meals are safe, appropriate for our patient’s needs and served with care.

An opportunity exists within our Food Services Department to join our team of casual Menu Monitors. This position will involve a range of tasks including (but not limited to):

- Patient menu collection
- Menu data entry and ordering
- Food safety checks
- Supervising patient meal service
- Maintaining ward food supplies.

The casual Menu Monitor role may involve working a variety of shifts over 7 days, including both early (0630-1500) and late (1030-1900) shifts. A minimum of one to two shifts per week will be required, with frequent additional shifts to cover staff leave.

Refer to the Position Description for selection criteria and a detailed description of the position.

**About you**

To be successful within this role, you will need to have:

- Food service experience in health or hospitality
- Flexibility in working hours
- Ability to respond to shift requests at short notice
Ability to work without supervision as well as part of a team
- Ability to understand the needs of patients from diverse social, religious and cultural background
- High level of written and verbal communication skills across multiple levels of an organization
- Ability to use initiative and develop strategies to cope with challenging situations eg changes in patient meal requirements, shortfall in meals arriving from Austin Health etc.

**Desirable Requirements**
- A strong interest in nutrition and its role in hospital food service
- Experience in using an electronic menu management system such as Chefmax would be an advantage
- Current Food Handling certification would be an advantage

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

Ready to make the move?

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement**

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.