Food Service Supervisor

Your role at St John of God Bunbury Hospital

St John of God Bunbury Hospital is seeking a Food Service Supervisor to provide leadership and supervision within our kitchen team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality food products and exceptional service to patients, visitors, and other customers. This hands-on role is responsible for overseeing daily food service operations, maintaining food safety and quality standards, supporting and mentoring team members, and contributing to a positive patient experience. Working closely with the broader hospitality and clinical teams, the successful candidate will help ensure efficient, customer-focused service in a fast-paced healthcare environment.

We have multiple opportunities being offered on a Permanent Part-Time basis, working 72 hours per fortnight.

If you are a motivated leader with a passion for food services, customer care, and team development, we encourage you to apply and become part of our dedicated team at St John of God Bunbury Hospital.

The Position

• Supports the Executive Chef in developing a culture of service excellence, sustainable patient satisfaction and sustainable employee engagement.
• Ensures caregivers complete assigned tasks in a timely manner and to quality and safety standards.
• Completes performance development reviews of caregivers under supervision.
• In liaison with the Hotel Services Administrative Officer (Rostering) manages caregiver rosters and annual leave calendars ensuring maintenance of effective service levels.
• Supports the Executive Chef with effective recruitment, induction and ongoing training, including the preparation of training material and its delivery to Food Service Attendants.
• Manages performance issues, escalates to Executive Chef, Hotel Services Manager and Workforce Lead as required.
• Supports the Executive Chef and the Hotel Services Manager leading the catering team through change management as the kitchen and service models progress.
• Interprets patient meal tray cards for meal service for patients and ensures appropriate meals for patients who have allergy and therapeutic diet meal choices and participates in the preparation, plating and delivery of meals and snacks as required.
• Ensures that all relevant food safety, compliance documentation codes of practice and legislative requirements are consistently met and maintained correctly.

You will have previous experience supervising in a catering environment with the ability to assist in training programs and be able to plan staff rosters and leave. You will have the ability to prioritise tasks, make decisions and guide the team and have a commitment to ongoing education and professional development

To succeed you will have well-developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills, a sound knowledge of hygiene regulations and an awareness of correct manual handling procedures.

Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Salary: $71,369 to $72,635 (pro rata for part time), plus 12% superannuation
• Two permanent part time positions available
• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
• Novated leasing
• work related expenses
• self-education and
• additional superannuation
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave and well-being programs
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

If suitable applicants are identified advertisement may close prior to listed date and screening/interviews may commence throughout the advertising process.

For enquiries contact Emma Stirling, Food Services Coordinator, on 0400 806 906.

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.