Cook - Residential Care
Core
Prepare, cook, and serve meals for elderly residents in an aged care facility, adhering to corporate menus, dietary requirements, and IDDSI texture-modified needs.
Role type
Residential care cook
Builds
Daily nutritious meals for aged care clients
Domain
Aged care / Healthcare
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
IDDSI knowledge, safe food handling, hygiene and infection control, nutrition planning, texture modification preparation
Preferred skills
Previous aged care cooking experience, ability to work independently and in multidisciplinary teams
Technologies
Commercial kitchen equipment
Responsibilities
Prepare and cook meals in line with corporate menus and recipes, ensure meals meet IDDSI and texture-modified needs, follow safe food handling and hygiene standards, comply with Workplace Health and Safety and Environmental practices
Seniority
Casual, hands-on IC