Cleaning, Laundry & Catering Assistant

Job No: COOKLCA253218
Location: Gympie

We’re looking for a dedicated Cleaning, Laundry & Catering Assistant to join the team at Cooinda Aged Care Service in Gympie. Help create a clean, comfortable, and welcoming environment making a real difference in the lives of our residents by ensuring they feel at home and cared for.

Location: Cooinda Aged Care- Gympie, Queensland
Employment Type: Casual
Availability: Mornings, Afternoons and Weekend shifts available. 
Salary: $29.34 Base + 25% Casual Loading + Superannuation + Salary Packaging

 

About The Role:
In this role, you’ll assist with meal preparation and cooking, ensuring food is served safely and meets dietary requirements. You’ll also be responsible for keeping the kitchen clean and organized, supporting a positive and hygienic environment. Your efforts will contribute to making each day brighter for our residents through nutritious and delicious meals.

  • Contributing to the preparation of a quality meal service
  • Delivering the residents' meal service
  • Assisting the Chef in all areas of the kitchen
  • Communicating well with co-workers, residents and their families.

 

About You:
You will be able to show you have strong customer service and people skills. You will share our values of Integrity, Innovation, Kindness and Empowerment. You can juggle your time and tasks well and you believe attention to detail matters. 

  • Must maintain a valid NDIS Worker Screening clearance or Police Check as per site requirements.
  • Possess skills and experience in cooking/preparing meals, dishwashing, kitchen cleaning and utilisation of commercial kitchen equipment.

 

What You’ll Enjoy:

  • Above Award Wages with a brand-new EA
  • Access to Salary Packaging – enjoy up to $15,990 of your salary tax-free!
  • Opportunities for skills and career growth- we support additional study with time off and some paid support. Move into other areas of care- diversional therapy, nursing or home and community care to name a few
  • Employee Assistance Program, supplier discounts across health insurance and electricity and gas providers as well as appliances and holidays!

About Us:
Lutheran Services is a not-for-profit organisation, providing exceptional care and support to communities across Queensland for the past 90 years. We provide aged care, retirement living and home care services for older people, with community services including mental health, disability, youth and family, and domestic and family violence support. We draw on a rich Lutheran tradition of care, placing the wellbeing of our clients at the heart of everything we do. Where our people to love what they do, supporting over 6,000 people each year across more than 25 sites.  

Part of Lutheran Services, Cooinda Aged Care service in Gympie is community focused and committed to providing compassionate and high- quality care to our residents.

 

Apply Now:
Applications may be reviewed as they come in so apply now. You can check out the Position Description here for more information. To apply please attach your resume. 

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We draw on our rich Lutheran tradition of caring for everyone – the individual, family and the community. We support older people, young people and their families, people living with a disability or mental illness, and families experiencing domestic violence and hardship. Together with the congregations that founded us, we’ve been serving Queenslanders since 1935. We are a not-for-profit organisation with more than 20 sites across the state, all the way from Tallebudgera to Rockhampton.