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Southern Cross Care has an exciting opportunity for a Café Team Leader to join our team at our Duhig Village Residential Aged Care Home in Holland Park.

What can Southern Cross Care Queensland offer you?

• Competitive pay rates, plus access to generous Not-for-Profit salary packaging to increase your take-home pay.
• Flexible shifts available across a 14-day roster to suit your lifestyle.
• Opportunity to join a supportive, purpose-driven organisation.
• Strong and inclusive staff culture.
• Ongoing, individualised training and development opportunities.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families.
• Additional wellbeing support through our Thrive program, which allows early access to up to 50% of your earned wages.

About the role

In this role, you will support the day-to-day operations of the Duhig Village Café, ensuring high-quality food service, a welcoming café environment, and compliance with Southern Cross Care Queensland standards, policies, and Food Safety Program requirements.

As the Café Team Leader, you will work closely with the Hospitality Services Manager to assist with menu preparation, recipe development, food costing, stock control, and daily café operations. You will also provide hands-on cooking support as part of normal rostered duties when required, while helping to maintain food safety compliance, quality service delivery, and efficient workflow across the café.

You will provide day-to-day guidance and support to café and hospitality staff, assist with training and onboarding, and help foster a positive, collaborative, and customer-focused team culture. You will also play an important role in ensuring food is prepared, stored, and presented in line with hygiene, safety, and presentation standards.

In addition, this role provides operational support across SCCQ sites when key hospitality staff are absent or where staffing shortages arise. Most importantly, you will bring strong leadership, a practical hands-on approach, and a genuine commitment to delivering a warm, respectful, and person-centred café experience for residents, families, visitors, and staff.

What will you bring to the role?

• Certificate in Cookery (preferred, but not essential).
• Experience in hospital, aged care, or similar large-scale cooking environments.
• Demonstrated commercial cooking knowledge and experience.
• Experience working in a hygiene-controlled environment.
• Knowledge of food safety standards, including safe food handling, storage, labelling, and temperature monitoring.
• Experience monitoring and handling food and equipment safely.
• Understanding of WHS and quality standards relevant to hospitality services.
• Strong leadership and teamwork skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage positively with residents, families, visitors, and staff.

Who is Southern Cross Care Queensland?

Southern Cross Care Queensland (SCCQ) is a Catholic not-for-profit organisation established by the Knights of the Southern Cross, more than 40 years ago. They saw a need to provide compassionate care and inclusive service to some of the most vulnerable, the ageing population, in the community.

Since then, SCCQ has grown to employ over 1700 staff caring for and supporting more than 2000 people across 17 residential aged care homes, 8 retirement villages, 28 social houses, the National Disability and Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and home care services in metropolitan and regional Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

We are passionate about growing communities where best lives are lived, and serving the needs of our residents and clients with compassion and care is, as always, at the heart of what we do.

At SCCQ, we are just as focused on creating a culture where every person matters. Our culture program, Known & Loved, is unique to Southern Cross Care Queensland, enabling staff to build genuine community connections with each other and those we serve.

How can you apply? 

If you are ready to make a difference and help us grow communities where best lives are lived, then we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!

If you have any queries around Southern Cross Care QLD ‘s recruitment process or about the role, please contact us at employment@sccqld.com.au
  
Southern Cross Care Queensland is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate the diversity across our entire team and welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Please note that all employment offers will be conditional upon a satisfactory NDIS workers screen, the right to work in Australia and maintaining an up-to-date flu vaccination status.

Our Mission: Inspired by Catholic moral and social teachings which value and respect human life and the dignity of the individuals, we will provide a quality of care and accommodation to meet the needs of all who place their trust in us.

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