Chef Manager

The Role

Reporting directly to the Ipswich General Manager and being a member on the site leadership team, the role of Chef Manager is one of our most critical leadership roles that operates across Monday to Friday, full-time permanent who is fully accountable for the day-to-day kitchen operations, on-site Café and lifestyle events (e.g. Men's shed BBQ, catering for celebrations) whilst leading a small team operating.

A key success factor of this critical people leadership role will be to build and maintain high trust, respectful and professional relationships with your colleagues and support teams that underpins operational excellence and aligning to our core values here at Infinite Aged Care.

As the Chef Manager this role you find you deeply connected with our residents, actively seeking out feedback to help improve our food and nutritional operations and being an effective communicator on your vision, creativity and wellness attitude with food. Your team are just as passionate to providing high quality food and beverage service across the dining hall, in-house café, in-room dining refreshments and in-house events. This is such an exciting opportunity to really make a difference to our residents' lives through your passion for food.

Key Responsibilities

• Be accountable to for the daily delivery of 5-star quality meals on time (including room service and cafe), following set menus for our residents in alignment to food preferences and nutrional plans.
• Lead and coach kitchen teams across all facets of workplace safety routines and safety checklist
• Be part of Infinites Chef Community and share great food creations including catering events.
• Manage budgets, procurement, stocktakes & all regular equipment maintenance processes.
• Attend daily management meetings with the other heads of department to action strategic and operational outcomes in a highly collaborative, high trust and supportive leadership style.
• Be open to customer feedback, be respectful, an active listener as our residents love their food!
• Align all operational plans and routines to meet external food hygiene audits and regulatory standards - be a positive advocate for workplace safety audits and proactive attitudes.
• Work closely with the Regional Chef support network to learn, improve & delivery best in class food outcomes and show willingness to develop new food related services.  
• Partner with community education providers and VET programs to establish regular intakes of commercial cookery students into the kitchen.

This role is a physical role whereby you will do a lot of bending, squatting, lifting and pushing items to carry out your daily tasks safely. It is important you can perform these tasks without risk of injury to yourself, your colleagues and our residents.

Who are you?

• Proven experience working in commercial kitchens for a minimum of 5 years
• Demonstrated experience in leadership roles & capabilities over kitchen teams.
• A natural people person who creates a safe, fun and learning culture for all staff to come to work and be their best whilst building up culinary skills and experience with a great mentor.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to liaise with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Ability to listen and desire to continuously develop as a result from feedback provided by residents, their families and colleagues.
• Positive and approachable leader who can interacts with other operational teams e.g. lifestyle and activities that brings the best out of our residents everyday.
• Commitment to attend safety specific training and upskilling sessions paid for by the company
• Tertiary qualifications in Certificate III or higher in Commercial Cookery including a valid Food Safety Supervisors certificate.
• Ability to adapt agreed monthly menu planning to end customer to showcase fun and creativity
• Previous experience in Aged Care or the Health sector will be an advantage.

Benefits - Why work for us?

• Exercise and wellbeing discounted activities via Infinite's Fitness Passport program
• Access to in-house and online training programs - FREE to all employees.
• Access to family friendly benefits like our EAP and Flare (employee discounts).
• Work-Rite Micro professional development FREE to all employees.
• Career growth opportunities within a strong mentoring team culture across the business.
• Participate in roadshows to upskill and learn from other colleagues at Infinite
• Supportive, positive team environment with a strong caring work ethic.
• Companywide safety-first workplaces for our residents, families and staff.
• Positive wellbeing, fun and engaging team / shift activities.

To learn more about our Ipswich Care home navigate via this link: Infinite Care Ipswich | Aged Care

Who are we?

Infinite Aged Care is a leading provider of residential aged care services with 17 care homes across Australia. We are passionate about aged care, delivering the highest level of service to our residents and creating long lasting memories. We readily offer our employees the opportunity to broaden their skills and achieve their potential. Residential Care Services Locations | Aged Care Facilities | Infinite Care (infin8care.com.au)

Come join us and play your part in Making Aged Care Great!!

NOTE: To be successful in this position you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which include an online medical questionnaire and work rights. You will also need to hold a current NDIS clearance and/or be happy to apply (How to apply | NDIS). Part of your application will be providing proof of age e.g. driver's license or age card (Passport will not be accepted). If you don’t have this, you will need to apply via the state-based Department of Transport websites.