- Work for Australia’s leading Children’s Hospital
- Friendly and supportive team environment
- 3 x Part-time ongoing roles

About the Role

These 3 roles are part time ongoing positions (negotiable hours and shifts), within the Nutrition and Food Services Department.

You will be responsible in ensuring patients receive meals suitable to their individual dietary requirements. In this position, you will assist patients with selecting menu options that meet their requirements, while working closely with nursing staff and dietitians to clarify any specific dietary needs. The role also involves performing accurate data entry in the Delegate Foodservice™ system to produce tray cards and production lists for the kitchen, ensuring the correct meals are prepared and delivered.

Classification for these positions are GS6, Food Monitor($65,042.12 per annum + penalties/allowances if applicable + superannuation)

What you’ll achieve:

- Work as part of a team to achieve high-quality patient meal service
- Comply with the principles of food safety and the RCH Food Safety Program
- Comply with all hospital and departmental policies and procedures

Your skills and experience

- Current orprevioustertiary studyin an area which includesnutrition
- Proficiency in English (verbal and written)
- Experience in Delegate Foodservice™ software an advantage

About the Department

The Department of Nutrition and Food Services is a large department of around 120 staff incorporating the main kitchen, central formula room and the clinical dietetics service.

The main kitchen provides 3 cook-fresh meals and a mid-meals service for approximately 100 patients per day. The central formula room produces formula, enteral feeds and fortifies expressed breast milk for approximately 120 patients per day. This is a 7-day per week operation.

What we offer:





- Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!

Other requirements:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offerthe opportunity towork in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer staff benefits such as discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption,andoffers of employment are conditional on successful completion of background checks including reference checks.

Applications close Monday 2 November 2026 at 11.59pm

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📌 Menu Monitor (Melbourne)
🏢 Victorian Government
📍 Melbourne