At Green leaves Early Learning Centres, we take pride in building innovative and sustainable learning environments in our state of the art, purpose-built centres. As a premium service provider, top quality is at the heart of what we do across all of our centres in Australia.

Our Wendouree centre is looking for a Chef to cater for our 100 children. Our Wendouree Centre is designed with children at the heart and embraces nature and playbased learning. With a diverse and demonstrative environment, we encourage you to look at our centres facebook page to see the building and design so far. An exciting time to be involved, you get to help us attract and invite new families to come and enjoy all that Green Leaves has to offer. Imagine the smell of fresh baked good as soon as you walk in the door!

At Green Leaves we are strong believers that we are nothing without our people, we value your professionalism and passion and most importantly reward loyalty and achievements. We foster a team that learns from each other in ways that create a warm and caring environment.

In this role you can take pleasure in helping to make work play, creating a sense of belonging for all, embracing different, and creating opportunities for our team to choose their own adventure.

About the role

• Prepare a wide variety of nutritious meals, purees and special diet meals for babies and children as well as freshly baked treats for families daily
• Experienced in planning a rotation menu and confident in stock rotation, budgeting, and shopping for the kitchen
• Enjoy greeting and interacting with our families in a friendly manner and provide barista service (training provided if you are not experienced with this)
• Display excellent verbal, written and time management skills with high levels of initiative
• Maintain a clean and safe kitchen, in accordance with Food and Council Authority requirements
• Team-player who is open to different styles of working in a kitchen and receptive to feedback
• Able to guide, mentor, support and work professionally with a kitchen hand
• Happy to provide culinary classes alongside our educators to even the littlest in our centres
• Prior experience working in a childcare or aged care kitchen (preferred, but not essential)

Qualifications

• Completed minimum of Certificate III in Commercial Cookery
• Completed or willing to complete Food Safety Supervisor Certificate (health & community sector)
• Current Working with Children's Check
• Current Child Protection Training or willing to obtain one

Benefits

• Competitive above Award wages
• 20% childcare discount
• Health and Wellbeing Programme
• Uniforms provided
• 24/7 access to a large online library of learning and development
• State of the art, fully equipped chef's kitchen
• Work set shifts - Monday to Friday 
• Carparking available on site

This is a personally rewarding role where you can impact the lives of many. We want you to feel valued for your ongoing efforts, commitment, and dedication to your role.

If you are excited by the opportunity to join Green Leaves Horsham, then please apply now!