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- Experience in food preparation or a relevant qualification.
- Food Handlers Certificate (or willingness to obtain one).
- Must hold a full driver's licence.

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Role Type

- On-site
- Temporary
- Casual
- Frontline

Description

Great food, Great Coffee, Big Impact

Come join The Little Social and be part of a team where great hospitality creates opportunities beyond the café. As a Kitchen Hand, you’ll play an important role in keeping our kitchen running smoothly while contributing to a social enterprise that creates employment, training and development opportunities for young people.

We’re looking for a hands‑on hospitality all‑rounder who is ready to jump into food preparation, catering support, cleaning, and day‑to‑day kitchen operations.

Based in our purpose‑built sensory kitchen in Port Melbourne, you’ll be part of a social enterprise creating meaningful opportunities for neurodivergent people and others facing barriers to employment, while helping deliver an outstanding café experience.

What you’ll be doing:

- Preparing high‑quality meals and catering orders in a fast‑paced environment.
- Maintaining food safety standards and a clean, organised kitchen.
- Creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for customers, trainees, and colleagues.
- Supporting trainees through positive role modelling and day‑to‑day teamwork.
- Working across kitchen, café, and catering operations to ensure smooth service.
- Contributing to both great customer experiences and positive community impact.

What we’re looking for:





- Experience in food preparation or a relevant qualification.
- Food Handlers Certificate (or willingness to obtain one).
- Strong knife skills and confidence using kitchen equipment.
- Ability to multitask and work well under pressure.
- Passion for hospitality and social impact.
- Full driver’s licence.

Come use your kitchen and hospitality skills to inspire the next generation with The Little Social

A little bit about us, The Little Social

The Little Social is a bespoke coffee bar that brews the finest espresso and empowers young people to lead meaningful lives by providing hands‑on skills development and mentoring from industry experts. Each young person has a platform at The Little Social to build self‑confidence, gain key employability skills and genuine work experience in a supportive and judgement free environment. Our cafes harness community goodwill towards social and economic sustainability and ethical business and invests profits into innovate and grow within a social justice framework – reaffirming our vision of young people being good‑to‑go into a competitive job market.

The Little Social is powered by Youth Projects – an independent,



registered charity who provides front line support to individuals and young people experiencing disadvantage, homelessness, unemployment, alcohol and other drug issues through a range of holistic and wrap around support services. Youth Projects is on a mission to provide high impact support, without judgement, full stop.

Why should you work with us?

Every day you spend working with us, you’re making a difference. The stronger our frontline warriors, the bigger our impact of breaking the cycle of disadvantage. We think that’s a pretty great perk, but we don’t stop there… here are some of the others;

- Guaranteed hours and shifts
- Access to generous salary packaging
- Access to meals & entertainment benefits
- Supervision, coaching and professional development
- Uncapped Employee Assistance Program
- Plus, additional paid leave including parental, wellbeing, family violence and study

Have you made it this far?

If you’re still reading, we think there’s a solid chance you might be our kind of person.

It is a requirement of all Youth Projects positions that the successful applicant holds a valid Working Children’s Check or Police Check.

Our commitment to diversity: Our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging: At Youth Projects, we value the unique experiences, perspectives and contributions that a diverse workforce brings. We are committed to creating a protected, inclusive and welcoming workplace for all and actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and people of a

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