Casual Food Service Officer - Talent Pool

Food Service Officers – Join Our Casual Team!

Join the Food Services team at Redland Hospital and play an important role in supporting patients, staff and visitors through quality food and friendly service. As a casual Food Service Officer, you’ll enjoy variety across food preparation, meal assembly and distribution, retail service, coffee making, stock handling and other essential food service activities!

About Your Role

As a Food Service Officer, you'll contribute to the smooth day-to-day operation of Food Services at Redland Hospital, helping ensure patients, staff and visitors receive safe, high-quality food and service.

• Assist with food preparation, meal assembly and distribution in line with dietary requirements and established procedures.
• Support retail outlet operations, including preparing and serving coffee and other hot beverages and handling cash.
• Maintain high standards of food safety, hygiene, cleanliness and workplace health and safety.
• Provide friendly, respectful and professional service to patients, staff, visitors and other customers.

About You

We're looking for people who take pride in their work and enjoy being part of a team. 

• Strong understanding of food safety principles and safe food handling practices.
• Reliable, adaptable and motivated to maintain consistently high work standards.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills with a customer-focused approach.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work effectively across different areas.

The Process:

This Expression of Interest collects a variety of information that will help identify potentially suitable applicants for future casual employment opportunities. If deemed suitable your details will remain in the Talent Pool for a period of twelve (12) months and you may be contacted by Metro South Health (MSH) at the time an opportunity arises matching your qualifications and/or experience.

MSH may request your participation in other recruitment selection processes (eg: interview, reference checks and preemployment checks) to further determine suitability for appointment to a specific position.

Please note: An EOI does not guarantee employment and is separate from advertised vacancies, which require a SmartJobs application. EOIs remain active for 12 months, with casual opportunities offered based on suitability and operational needs.

What we can offer you:

• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Redland Hospital:

Redland Hospital is the major health centre for adults and children in the Redlands and Brisbane's southern bayside suburbs. We provide a range of services including emergency care, primary health and minor injury care, acute and subacute medicine, general surgery, maternity and paediatric, mental specialist outpatient and mental health care.

It's an exciting time as our Redlands Coast community grows bringing a diverse range of patients & an opportunity to make a real difference in the community. With more beds, new and expanding services the Redland Hospital expansion provides a range of opportunities to pursue and build a long-term career, enjoy a supportive work environment, professional growth opportunities, and a vibrant community!

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.