About the Centre

Situated within the beautiful grounds of the University of Sydney's Cumberland campus in Lidcombe, SDN Ngallia offers early childhood education and child care for 47 children per day from birth to school age.

About The Role

To plan and provide high quality, nutritious meals in a safe and hygienic environment and to communicate and establish positive relationships with the team and children.

This is a permanent part-time Cook position. 5 hours per day Monday to Friday.

About You

• Current Working with Children's Check (or willingness to obtain)
• Flexible and well organised
• Basic training in safe food handling and hygienic practices (appropriate course)
• Completion of Commercial Cookery basic training course or equivalent (desirable)
• Completion of Nutrition and Menu Planning for Children training (desirable)
• Experience cooking in bulk quantities in a domestic or commercial environment
• High level oral and written communication skills
• Proven ability to meet deadlines

Our Culture

SDN's values are at the heart of everything we do. If you share our values and believe that through working together we can make the world a better and more equitable place then we want to hear from you! We commit ourselves to being: trustworthy and reliable, inclusive and respectful and creative and innovative.

SDN Benefits include:

• Positive welcoming culture
• Ongoing training and development with long term career progression opportunities
• Working with a team of professionals who have extensive experience and knowledge gained through our 110 + year history of supporting children and families
• Priority placement for children of staff members
• Discounted child care fee
• Paid parental leave
• Finders fee - Referral Scheme
• Employee Assistance Program - Free, voluntary and confidential counselling service
• SDN Staff Giving Fund
• Purchased Leave
• Study Leave
• Picnic Day - One extra day paid leave for all permanent staff

View the position description here:

https://www.sdn.org.au/media/2787/cook-aug-2020.pdf

SDN Children's Services welcomes and encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

Successful applicants will be subject to relevant pre-employment checks including Working with Children Check (NSW) and National Police Check.