Cook - Little Things Cafe

The Position

Join our team at Little Things Cafe, Blackburn who are working with purpose and use your hospitality skills to make the world a better place for the world’s most vulnerable. All proceeds go to World Vision Australia to help impact the lives of children. We’re a social enterprise that trades with a conscience!

We need a short order cook to work every Saturday making all the classic Melbourne Brunch Specials, we open from 8am to 2pm to customers.

This role is a critical part of bringing to life a great café environment, assisting and producing a tasty menu to complement our specialty coffee and give our customers an experience that communicates the bigger story behind Little Things. You will be responsible for serving up delicious food that is fully compliant with food handling and safety. 

Responsibilities:

• General daily cooking to order and food preparation
• Maintain Par levels
• Manage stock arrivals, temp logs, sterilisation
• Check for quality and quantity of received goods
• Food safety records maintained ready for on the spot audit
• Daily Opening – Service – Pack down cleaning
• Ensuring equipment is kept in clean working order (defrosting/compressor fans kept dust free etc) quarterly deep clean
• Monitor and maintain stock levels to reduce food wastage
• Be knowledgeable and accountable for ensuring customers have their allergies/intolerances catered for safely
• Communicate with staff to ensure safe allergen food practices are met
• Ensuring all food served meets the standards set by management and is visually appealing and photograph worthy

Who we’re looking for 

We are looking for a friendly, positive, people person with previous café / kitchen experience.  

You will:

• Have safe food handling knowledge
• Have min 2 years working in food service environment
• Have short order cooking experience
• Be highly Organised, work well with others and have an always learning attitude
• Be a Multitasker, have Friendly customer service and adapt quickly
• Have commercial Cookery Certificate or equivalent

Working for World Vision means you are making the world better 

It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you’re about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward. 

The selection process 

For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.

We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families. World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector. 

Who we are

World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work.

For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us