Job Type: Permanent - Part Time

Location: NSW: Wollongong

Job Category: Aged Care/Retirement,Care Services,Cook,Food Safety,Food Service,Indigenous Participation,Texture Modified Food,Trade Qualified - Chef

Rather than someone who simply follows a recipe, we are seeking a Chef who also has a strong understanding of the IDDSI standard. Stepping into this role, you will lead our kitchen, dedicated to ensuring our residents enjoy delicious, nutritious, and high-quality meals within a warm, community-centered environment.

About the Role

Roster: Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 5:30 pm

Rather than someone who simply follows a recipe, we are seeking a Chef who also has a strong understanding of the IDDSI standard. Stepping into this role, you will lead our kitchen, dedicated to ensuring our residents enjoy delicious, nutritious, and high-quality meals within a warm, community-centered environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

- Kitchen Leadership: Overseeing and directing daily meal services to ensure smooth, efficient operations.
- Inclusive Culinary Services: Preparing standard menus alongside specialized texture-modified diets and dietary requirements with dignity, precision, and care.
- Quality Assurance: Ensuring every dish meets rigorous standards for taste, nutritional value, temperature, and visual presentation before service.
- Safety & Compliance: Upholding strict kitchen hygiene, sanitation, and food safety documentation standards.
- Team Collaboration: Partnering with a dedicated kitchen team to maintain a supportive, organized, and effective working environment.

Desired Skills And Experience

Who You Are

- Trade Qualified Professional:



Possess a Certificate III in Commercial Cookery (or equivalent standard qualification).
- Culinary Experience: Proven experience in high-volume, fast-paced kitchen environments. Experience in aged care, healthcare, hospitality, or corporate catering is highly regarded.

- Resident-Focused Care: A genuine commitment to resident satisfaction, displaying empathy, patience, and flexibility in catering to individual dietary preferences and needs.
- Autonomous & Dependable Leader: Demonstrated capability to manage weekend kitchen operations independently, maintaining high standards of food quality and service consistency.

Why Join Us?

- Competitive Pay: Weekend penalty rates apply.
- Purpose-Driven Work: See the immediate impact of your skills on the well-being of our residents.
- Up-to-date Facilities: Work in a clean, well-equipped, and supportive environment.

Who We Are Cater Care is a leading, 100% Australian owned contract catering service provider, operating across multiple sectors (Aged care, Education, Retirement, Retail and Remote services). Through our values of Care, Pride and Community, we pride ourselves on diversity, work/life balance, providing excellent career opportunities to our employees.

We encourage First Nations people to consider a career with us.

The Next Step

Please click “Apply for this job”. If your work history aligns with the key selection criteria for the role, one of our recruitment coordinators will be in touch. Please, no agencies.

Please Note

As a result of revised standards around health & well-being, all applicants must have a current year flu vaccination and undertake a National Criminal History Check and NDIS Worker.

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