Food Services Leading Hand

Food Services Leading Hand

Permanent Full Time position

Malvern location

We’re building for the better!

By 2036, more than 150,000 patients will look to us for healthcare every year.

At Cabrini Health we champion community, compassion and career fulfilment. Our teams are united by the shared purpose of making a meaningful contribution to exceptional, patient-centred care in well- resourced, world class facilities that inspire you to perform at your best and continuously grow professionally.

How you will make an impact

The kitchen cleaning supervisor is primarily responsible for supervising and lead cleaning staff, ensuring high cleanliness standards are maintained and completing end of shift audits and report, assuring Cabrini resources are managed in a safe, efficient and cost-effective manner.

Position is Full Time, Mon-Fri, 2:00PM – 10:00PM.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead and supervise cleaning operations (oversee and coordinate kitchen cleaning staff, allocate tasks, monitor performance, and ensure cleaning duties are completed and efficiently and on schedule)

Maintain food safety and compliance standards

• Train, coach and support staff (provide training on cleaning procedures, chemical handling, hygiene practices, and company policies while promoting professionalism and teamwork.)

Monitor quality and conduct inspections

• Manage resources, equipment and documentation (oversee the safe use and storage of cleaning chemicals, equipment and PPE, assist with stocktakes, and maintain accurate records in the Monika system.)

• Coordinate communication and operational support (maintain effective communication with supervisors, chefs, and kitchen staff, ensure smooth shift handovers, respond to urgent cleaning issues, and support daily kitchen operations as needed.)

About you

• Relevant industry experience - previous experience in hospital kitchen cleaning, food services, or hospitality cleaning environments is preferred.

• Leadership capability - experience supervising, leading, or coordinating a cleaning team is highly regarded.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Customer and service focus - professional approach with a commitment to delivering high standards of service and supporting operational needs.

• Problem-solving and organisational skills - ability to use initiative, solve problems, manage competing priorities, and maintain attention to detail and accuracy.

• Team-oriented and values-driven - motivated, adaptable, willing to learn, and committed to supporting and promoting Cabrini Health’s Mission and Values.

Cabrini Offers

• Tax savings - increase your take-home pay with Salary Packaging up to $18,850 per annum

• Attractive remuneration with guaranteed annual increases + 13% superannuation & 17.5% annual leave loading

• Access to a range of staff benefits including retail offers, discounted hospital services and savings on eligible private health fund services

• Located close to public transport with discounted Myki Commuter Club

• Excellent workplace culture in a mission-based, values driven healthcare organisation

Enquiries to: Hanna Santos, Patient Food Service Supervisor, 9508 1940

Does this sound like your new role? Bring your skills and enthusiasm to Cabrini Health and help optimise the patient experience and health outcomes for our community.

Cabrini Health acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is core to our mission.

As part of our commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Working for Cabrini

Cabrini Health is a Catholic, private, for-purpose health service located in Melbourne’s southeast. Inspired by the mission and ethic of care of the Cabrini Sisters, providing quality, compassionate care to our community for more than 75 years.

There is something special about Cabrini Health. Our highly skilled staff and specialists incorporate clinical research, innovative models of care and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We demonstrate our mission to serve our community through outreach programs that support asylum seekers, provide healthcare in rural communities and in underdeveloped countries.

Our size, reputation and growth strategy ensure genuine opportunities for our people to learn, grow and realise potential.

Our values: Compassion - Integrity - Courage - Respect

MANDATORY FOR ALL NEW STAFF TO CABRINI

Employment with Cabrini Health will be based on satisfactory background checks such as professional references, National Police Check, vaccinations for annual Influenza plus a Working with Children Check (WWCC) may also be requested. Vaccination for COVID-19 is highly recommended.