Cook
UnitingCareBlueCare | Retirement Living | Cafe Cook, Carina Location
Permanent part time opportunity - 35 hours per week for greater work life balance
Rewarding employment opportunities, making a difference in your local community
$30.41 - 33.13p/h + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + extensive range of staff discounts
Your part in the Blue Care Team
Blue Care operate over 32 retirement villages across Queensland, with more than 3,300 residents choosing to make a Blue Care communities their home. Our welcoming cafe within a vibrant retirement community at Carina is looking for a creative, reliable and skilled Cook to join their team on a Permanent part time basis.
Reporting to the Village Manager, this is a great opportunity for a friendly, energetic and community minded Cook to work in a welcoming retirement living cafe. This role is more than preparing food and coffee — we are looking for someone who can help make the café the social heart of our village.
The café is an important gathering place for residents, families, and visitors, and we are seeking someone who enjoys creating connections, encouraging conversation, and building a warm and welcoming environment where people feel comfortable to socialise and mingle.
You will be responsible for:
Preparing and serving quality barista coffee and beverages
Preparing simple café meals, snacks, sandwiches, and light lunches
Reheating and presenting meals
Maintaining cleanliness, food safety, and café presentation
Providing friendly and attentive customer service
Building strong relationships with residents and visitors
Creating a welcoming atmosphere that encourages residents to gather, socialise, and enjoy the café experience
Promoting daily specials, themed mornings, coffee catch-ups, and small social activities
Encouraging resident participation and increasing café visitation and engagement
What makes a difference for us
We are particularly looking for someone who understands the importance of social connection within an aged care and retirement community. You will bring ideas to increase café activity and make the space inviting and vibrant. You will ideally have:
Experience in hospitality, cafés, or food service
Barista experience preferred
A warm, outgoing, and compassionate personality
Strong communication and people skills
Confidence working independently in a small café environment
Initiative and creativity in promoting customer engagement
A genuine interest in working with older people and fostering community connections
Employee Benefits:
Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum
A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme
Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
Career development opportunities with one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
BlueCare is proudly part of the UnitingCare Family, we’d love you to be too
Joining the state’s largest network of aged care workers with its over 8,000 strong, bright team in blue, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. With more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, you are part of something bigger. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.
Child safe, Child friendly
UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:
Provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children
Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme
Diversity & Inclusion
Our approach is simple –everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position. For additional support and to meet our RAP Team, email reconciliation@ucareqld.com.au
Safe workplace
We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.
Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.