Food Services Supervisor

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Facilities Management, Health and Allied Health

Reference: 56494

**Monday to Friday PM shifts and Weekend AM and PM shifts available**
- Outstanding Food Service’s leadership role - Australia’s first dedicated Heart Hospital
- Great opportunity to develop a motivated and inspired food services team
- Excellent opportunity to be a part of the team that designs and implements best practice food service
- Opportunity to help with the commissioning of this new facility and build a high performing team

**Australia’s first Heart Hospital is opening soon Join us at Australia’s only dedicated, purpose-built heart hospital.**

**Our journey**

The **Victorian Heart Hospital** will be Australia’s first dedicated heart hospital and is nearing its final stages of construction. It will include a full range of ambulatory and inpatient cardiac care, including cardiac theatres, cardiac catheterisation laboratories, emergency, intensive care, and ambulatory services such as cardiac CT, echocardiography and specialist consultation. It will also feature a unique, patient centred model of care. The **Victorian Heart Hospital** will also play a key role in advancing research and teaching and will be home to the Victorian Heart Institute, a brand new, health and medical research organisation at Monash University.

**Now Recruiting Food Services Supervisor**

By joining Monash Health’s cardiac team as **Food Services Supervisor** you will be welcomed into a positive and supportive environment, passionate about delivering cardiac care to a diverse and growing local community. The career opportunities are limitless with access to education support within a tertiary hospital.

Reporting to the Food Services Manager, you’ll be welcomed into our larrger Monash Health Support Services team and will be supported by a broader team of People and Culture & Finance business partners, as well as the team of Food Services Managers and Supervisors across multiples sites. You’ll also enjoy working in brand new facilities in a dedicated heart hospital that will provide:

- improved facilities in a sustainable design, filled with colour, natural light, and space
- dedicated leadership team fostering high performing talent
- career progression opportunities within Victoria’s largest health service
- cutting edge state of the art technology
- innovative design to facilitate world-leading research

**A Day in the Life**:
The **Food Service Supervisor** is responsible for the supervision of Food Service team and works to assist the food services leadership team in meeting operational objectives.
- Leading our services in our pursuit of exceptional patient and employee experiences
- Achieving and maintaining the highest standards in food safety
- Working closely with departmental leads and teams to drive service excellence
- Leading the day-to-day operational team, managing employee absences to achieve service delivery
- Provision of food services to both public and private patients in one facility

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

- Roster management
- Leading the food services team in their delivery of meals and food supplies
- Ensuring accreditation requirements are maintained for areas of responsibility
- Achieving key performance indicators
- Delivery of high-quality customer focused services
- Supervising hospital-wide meal delivery services in line with food safety and dietary guidelines

Skills and experience gained managing a team within a food services role of a large organisation will enable you to strive for excellence.

**What you bring**:

- Previous experience preferably within heath care
- Experience in the operation and management in the delivery of food services
- Clear understanding of dietary codes and food safety guidelines
- A competent level of verbal & written communication skills
- Effective organisational skills with a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and commitments
- Excellent customer service skills

**On a personal level, you will demonstrate**:

- A “Can Do” attitude with the capability to problem solve and troubleshoot
- A positive attitude and drive to deliver strong customer service
- Genuine interest in working with and caring for people

**What you need**:

- Certificate in Food Safety (Essential)
- Certificate Food Safety Supervisor (Desirable)
- Previous leadership experience supervising /managing a team (Essential)
- Roster management experience
- The ability to develop and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Able to undertake physical work including lifting, carrying and manual handling
- Ability to understand**, **follow and implement written instructions and procedures
- Basic to intermediate computer/digital skills

**In Return**

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