Cook

Join Darling Downs Health as a Cook in Inglewood and help create nutritious, high quality meals that support patient wellbeing and community care. In this hands-on role, you’ll bring your cooking skills, food safety knowledge and customer focus to a supportive team where your work makes a meaningful difference every day.

What your day could look like

As a Cook, you'll play an important role in supporting patients, residents and the wider health service through quality meal experiences. From preparing nutritious meals to helping maintain high food safety standards, you'll work with a collaborative team to deliver services that contribute to safe, compassionate care.

Every day, you'll contribute by:

• Preparing and presenting meals that meet nutrition requirements, dietary needs and quality standards.
• Helping ensure food safety, hygiene and accreditation requirements are consistently maintained.
• Supporting a positive team culture through collaboration, clear communication and shared accountability.
• Identifying opportunities to improve catering services and enhance the customer experience.

Let's talk about you!

You're someone who takes pride in your work and understands how a well-prepared meal can positively impact a person's day. You bring compassion to customer service, integrity to food safety practices, and dignity to every interaction. You thrive in a team environment, adapt well to changing priorities and enjoy contributing ideas that improve outcomes. Most of all, you're motivated by meaningful work that supports the health and wellbeing of your community.

Here's what will help you thrive in this role:

• Experience preparing meals in line with established recipes, dietary requirements and quality standards.
• Strong knowledge of safe food handling practices and food safety procedures.
• Effective communication skills, teamwork and a customer-focused approach.
• Ability to work independently, use sound judgement and maintain high standards.

You'll stand out from the crowd if you have a Certificate III or higher qualification in Commercial Cookery or Hospitality Operations and/or experience in a healthcare, aged care or large-scale catering environment.

At the heart of this role is the opportunity to deliver quality meals with compassion, integrity, dignity, innovation and courage

Why Join Darling Downs Health?

At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless.

Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.

Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region.

Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:

• Maximise your take‑home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety
• Access professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathways
• Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and collaboration.
• Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.

For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits

Your future is here. Where are you?

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.

Click “Apply Now” to submit your application and upload the requested documents.

Find out more about us!

Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:

www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

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