Food Services Assistant

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• Casual position
• Heidelberg location
• Make a meaningful impact supporting patients, their families and carers

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives. 

About Food Services

The Austin Health Food Services Department is an in-house service which consists of the following two business units:

• Patient Food Services: Provides patient meals for all Austin Health campus’ as well as providing a patient meals service to Royal Women’s Hospital. Currently the Austin Health Patient Food Services Department is plating approximately 2700 cook/chill meals each day.  Food Services has 138 staff.
• Medi-Chef is located on the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital (HRH) campus.  Medi-Chef produces cook/chill (short shelf life and long shelf life) meal components for both Austin Health and other clients. Medi-Chef has 25 staff and currently produces 128,000 meals components per week.

About the role 

As a Food Service Assistant, you'll play an important role as part of the team, providing quality nutritional and balanced meals for our patients. The daily job activities will include serving meals on a plating line, general food preparation, kitchen duties including:

• Prepare, plate, distribute and collect patient meals
• Provide meal and beverage service to wards & patients
• Cleaning duties, use of industrial dishwasher

About you 

To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:

• An ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients and staff. 
• Completion food safety records as required.  
• Preparation of all cold larder and sandwiches as per specification.  
• Ability to work across sites. 
• Flexibility to work across shifts. 

Our benefits 

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including: 

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation. 
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program. 
• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options. 
• Mentoring and career development opportunities. 

Work with us! 

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures. 

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date. 

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Hina Ashiyana, Operations Manager Patient Food Services at Hina.Ashiyana@austin.org.au

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details. 

Application closing date: Friday 7 November 2025