Job Cook - APY Lands. Remote, Alice Springs

About the role

ARRCS are currently sourcing an experienced and qualified Cook to support the meal preparations for our residents and home care consumers within both our Aged Care Facility Tjilpiku Pampaku Ngura located in South Australia’s APY Lands and within the surrounding communities of Pukatja, Pipalyatjara, Mimili, Kaltjiti, Iwantja and Amata.

This role is being recruited on a permanent full-time basis working 38 hours per week and attracts a salary of $34.89 - $36.12 / hour gross base (annual of $68,947 - $71,363 gross base) dependent on skills and previous experience.

This role would ideally suit a skilled cook who enjoys working in a multi-functional kitchen and likes to place a ‘personal’ touch on their meal design and preparation.

You will be a self-starter who is able to work and reside in remote South Australia. You will enjoy preparing meals for our elderly consumers and work with external stakeholders to ensure that they meet the required dietary requirements.

Benefits of working with ARRCS:

ARRCS is the largest Aged Care Provider in the NT - your career can take you all over the NT including Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine or if you relocate interstate ARRCS are a pathway to Uniting Care QLD. Employee benefits include:

• 4 Weeks Annual Leave + 17.5% Leave Loading – Pro-rata for part-time.
• Shared, fully furnished housing.
• An annual pay increase in accordance with our current Enterprise Agreement.
• Salary Packaging through CBB.
• Relocation support of up to $5,000 inclusive of GST.
• Access to 70,000 Training and Development Courses through our Learning Platform.
• Telus Employee Wellbeing & Emotional Support.

Skills and Experience

To be considered for this role, we would require you to demonstrate the following:

• Certificate III in Commercial Cookery or similar discipline.
• A Food Handlers Certificate to the standard of 3.2.2A.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a commercial cook environment, with preference within a Health or Aged care environment.
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation in response to food preparation, food handling and storage.
• Experience in development of menus’ and ability to customise to residents specific dietary needs.
• Demonstrated ability in achieving personal goals and identifying areas for new training, development and requesting further training for any development in competency skill checks.
• Demonstrated ability to respond and adapt to competing priorities whilst working unsupervised.
• Demonstrated ability to empathise with Aged People, their families, and Personal Carers.
  

Mandatory Compliance

If successful in a role with ARRCS, prior to your commencement date, you must obtain the following:

• NDIS Workers Screening Check – Lodged or received prior to your commencement date.
• National Police Check – Lodged or dated within 3-months of your commencement date.
• Current year flu vaccination.

About ARRCS

Australian Regional and Remote Community Services (ARRCS) is a not-for-profit aged care and community service provider that was established in July 2014. ARRCS operate residential aged care facilities and community care support programs within communities across the Northern Territory and South Australia including Darwin, Alice Springs, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Mutitjulu, Docker River and APY Lands.

ARRCS is a service group of Uniting Care Queensland – the health and community service provider of the Uniting Church, and is supported by Blue Care – Also, part of Uniting Care Queensland and one of Australia’s leading residential and community aged care providers.

With over 750 staff across the Northern Territory, we are a true community partner, and our team members live our values of Compassion, Justice, Respect, Working Together and Leading through Learning.

For more information, please refer to the attached Position Description or please contact recruitment via Write to the company or phone 08 8982 5200.

We strongly encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply.