• Provide a high quality service within a fast paced and changing work environment
• Build your skills and knowledge of Food Services
• Enhance your career at Victoria’s leading regional health care service

About the facility 

Barwon Health’s Food Service is a large department over 2 sites, University Hospital Geelong (UHG) and the McKellar Centre. Our Food services provide over 3000 meals per day to residents, clients and patients seven days a week. Our Cafeteria service to staff and visitors is open seven days a week and requires a variety of duties by our large team. 

About the role 

As the Meal Monitor, you will be responsible for facilitating and organising the process of patient meal selections from a menu cycle, ready for the tray line operation.

You will act as a team-member of the Department of Food Services in order to provide quality menu selection processing services to patients/residents of Barwon Health.  You will work together with other Barwon Health staff (Nurses, PSAs, Food Services staff & Dietitians Department, Speech Pathologists), in order to support patients/residents to achieve an optimum nutritional health via the following activities:

1. Distribute, discuss and collect patient food choices from selective menus, for meals.
2. Enter menu data into computerised CBORD menu software system.
3. Liaise with the Dietitians Assistants, regarding patient dietary requirements and to implement interventions as advised.
4. Act as a liaison between the patient/resident and Dietitians Assistants in order to monitor, and encourage patient dietary adequacy and dietary compliance

About the culture

We are a fun, passionate, supportive, energetic, driven team who works cohesively together. No day is the same; we are a team that embrace's change and are always looking for innovative ideas to improve our team and the organisation.

Barwon Health staff benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Salary packaging
• Social club
• Be our future Barwon Health Strategic Plan
• Aboriginal Employment Plan
• Our Commitment to Child Safety

At Barwon Health we celebrate and harness diversity, and consider it a competitive advantage. We encourage applications from all diverse backgrounds including individuals that identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, GLBTIQ+, and individuals with disability. Our organisation promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all our consumers including children and appropriate rigorous reference and background checks will be undertaken.  Barwon Health is proud to be Totally Smoke Free.