Lead an Aged Care Kitchen Where Great Food Creates Great Moments

Are you an experienced Servery Supervisor, Catering Manager, Kitchen Manager, Chef Manager, Hospitality Supervisor or Food Services Manager looking for a role where you can lead a team, create memorable dining experiences and enjoy a healthier work-life balance?

At Anglicare, food is much more than nutrition—it brings comfort, connection and joy. We're looking for an experienced hospitality leader to oversee our kitchen and dining services at Elizabeth Lodge, Rushcutters Bay, ensuring every resident enjoys safe, nutritious and delicious meals served with genuine care.

Fixed Term until Dec 2027 | Elizabeth Lodge, Rushcutters Bay

Why you'll love this role

Unlike many commercial kitchens, you won't be preparing an extensive restaurant menu from scratch every day. Approximately 30% of the menu is prepared, allowing you to focus on quality, presentation, leadership and delivering an exceptional dining experience without the pressure of a traditional hospitality environment.

This is an opportunity to combine your hospitality leadership experience with meaningful work that genuinely improves people's lives.

What you'll be doing

• Lead and develop a team delivering exceptional kitchen and dining services.

• Oversee meal preparation, food presentation and service to ensure every resident enjoys a positive dining experience.

• Manage kitchen operations including ordering, stock control, rostering and food budgets.

• Ensure compliance with Food Safety Programs, HACCP principles and food safety legislation.

• Support residents with diverse dietary, allergy, cultural and texture-modified meal requirements.

• Partner with clinical and lifestyle teams to continually improve menus and resident satisfaction.

• Coach, mentor and develop your team while fostering a positive food safety culture.

• Drive continuous improvement across food quality, service standards and compliance.

About you

You're a passionate hospitality leader with a Commercial Cookery qualification (or equivalent), supervisory experience, a commitment to food safety and quality, and a genuine desire to inspire teams while living our values of compassion, respect and excellence.

You'll likely have experience in one of the following roles:

• Catering Manager

• Chef Manager

• Kitchen Manager

• Food Services Manager

• Kitchen Supervisor

• Servery Supervisor

• Head Chef with leadership responsibilities

You'll also bring:

• Experience leading kitchen or food service teams.

• Strong knowledge of food safety, HACCP and compliance.

• Experience managing food ordering, stock control and budgets.

• Confidence leading teams and building positive workplace culture.

• Experience working with special diets, allergens or texture-modified meals is highly regarded.

• Commercial Cookery qualification (or equivalent experience) is desirable.

If you're looking to take the next step in your hospitality leadership career while making a lasting impact on the lives of older Australians, we'd love to hear from you.

Why Anglicare? 

For 170 years Anglicare has been serving those in need - providing care to older people and services to the vulnerable. Today we employ 6,000 staff and are blessed to serve alongside 1,500 volunteers. We provide meaningful opportunities and choice, both for the individuals and communities we support and the dedicated people here who make it happen.  

At Anglicare, you’ll get the security, stability and opportunities that come with a strong, well-established organisation that’s ready for the future. You’ll belong to a community of kind, humble and respectful people of all faiths and backgrounds. You will also be supported to gain new knowledge, deepen your experience and expertise, and shape a rewarding career.  

On top of that, here are just some of the tangible benefits you will enjoy in a career with us: 

• Flexible work options to get the most out of work and life 

• Increase your take-home pay with salary packaging  

• Ongoing professional development and leadership training to advance your career  

• Exclusive discounts to over 400 retailers 

• Employee Assistance Program and Fitness Passport with discounts to over 800 gyms for you and your family 

Are you ready for a career that means more? 

To apply for this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button. All applicants will receive a response. 

Anglicare is as wonderfully diverse as the customers and communities we support. While we are guided by our Christian-based values, our team includes people of all faiths and backgrounds who share our commitment to serving others, and we value the diverse perspectives they bring.

We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.

Please note that successful completion of background checks and NDIS Worker Screening Check Clearance may be required as part of the employment process for this role.

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.