Menu Monitor

**About Grampians Health**

Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.

This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.

A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse, as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

**About the role**

Grampians Health Ballarat is seeking applicants to join our team as Menu Monitors on a casual basis to work in the Meal Support Services and Dietetics Department. The role offers an opportunity of providing leave cover. The role will be based around Menu Monitoring and will also include additional support roles as a Trolley Runner and Diet Kitchen (food and supplement preparation). Weekend work will be a component of this role.

If you are interested in making a difference for patients in their health journey you will enjoy this role.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provision of Menu Monitoring services to inpatients
- Support Dietetic staff to enhance team building
- Deliver excellence within the Meal Support Services team

**Skills and experience**
- Good communication skills
- Interest in nutrition
- Ability to work with wide range of stakeholders including within the Dietetics team, Nursing Staff, Environmental and Food Services staff.

**Grampians Health Culture & Benefits**

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

**Ballarat Region**

Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the states fastest growing inland city. Dubbed Australia's most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia's most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.

**How to apply**

Click **APPLY** or contact Andrea Berger Pinch, Clinical Manager - Dietetics on 0402 453 886 for a confidential discussion.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
- Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people._

**Selection Criteria**
- Essential : Have you received three doses of a COVID19 vaccine? If no, please provide further detail regarding doses received, booking dates and/or other relevant information.
- Essential : At one time or another, we've forgotten to do something important for our role. Tell me about a time when this happened to you. (Looking for: the situation, what you did, why you did it and what the outcome was
- Essential : Working with others usually involves some give and take, describe a time when you worked out an agreement with a peer or team member. (Looking for: the situation, what you did, why you did it and what the outcome was).
- Essential : What does patient/client centred care or service mean to you? Can you give an example of when you have demonstrated patient/client centred care or service.
- Essential : Can you describe your experience working in a food provision role? This might include taking orders, managing meals for people with allergies, ensuring meal choices are correct, communicating with a person about meal options.