What your day could look like
As an Auxiliary Services Supervisor - Catering, you'll play a vital role in ensuring patients and residents receive safe, high-quality meals that support their wellbeing. From coordinating daily kitchen operations to leading your team with confidence, you'll help create a reliable, supportive food service that people can trust.
Every day, you'll contribute by:
Leading catering operations to deliver timely, nutritious meals across hospital and aged care settings
Supporting and mentoring your team, building capability and fostering a positive workplace culture
Driving improvements in food quality, safety and service delivery standards
Managing resources and systems to keep operations efficient, compliant and responsive to changing needs
Let's Talk About You
You're a capable and grounded leader who takes pride in running a well-organised, high-quality service. You bring a calm, practical approach to busy environments and know how to bring people together to achieve strong results. Whether you're improving processes or supporting your team through challenges, you're motivated by making a real difference to people's daily experience. You value consistency, safety and teamwork, and when you leave at the end of the day, you know you've helped deliver care in a meaningful way.
Here's what will help you thrive in this role:
Experience in food services, ideally within healthcare, aged care or large-scale catering
Ability to lead and support a team, including rostering and performance management
Knowledge of food safety standards and commitment to quality and compliance
Strong communication skills and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset
You'll stand out from the crowd if you have a qualification in food safety supervision or hospitality, and experience improving service delivery in a structured environment.
Above all, you'll bring compassion, integrity, dignity, innovation and courage to everything you do, helping create a service that people rely on. In this role, your leadership ensures safe, quality care is delivered through every meal.
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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