Cafe All Rounder

The Opportunity

At Infinite Aged Care, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide an environment which encourages and enables residents to remain independent and live their best lives with Infinite everyday! We have a permanent full time position for a Barista / Cafe Allrounder at our Caravonica facility which is a 148 bed residential home - Caravonica Waters Aged Care - Nursing Home | Infinite Care

Our Barista / Cafe Allrounder creates a friendly and customer service environment where residents and their families can come and socialise over a hot or cold beverage or snack. Typically, this involves.

• Welcoming all customers with a warm, friendly and helpful personality and attitude!
• Service of a range of snacks including hot and cold sandwiches, cakes, muffins etc.
• Preparation and service of hot and cold (non-alcoholic) beverages - it is essential you have a barista certificate and make yummy coffees!!
• Cleaning of kitchen, service areas and dining area around the coffee shop.
• Follow and carry out daily, weekly and monthly procedures to maintain high quality cafe operations
• Work with the Chef Manager to talk through supply of items needed to run the cafe properly
• Ensure the cafe area is free any workplace hazards, trips, slips or other items that may cause a safety issue.
• Maintain a professional, respectful and inviting cafe environment which is a positive reflection of our company.
• Assist in / provide back up support in dining room service when required.

This role is a physical role whereby you will do a lot of bending, squatting, lifting and pushing items to carry out your daily tasks safely. It is important you can perform these tasks without risk of injury to yourself, your colleagues and our residents.

 About You

At Infinite Aged Care, we hire on attitude and aptitude, so experience in the aged care sector is not necessary. Whilst formal qualifications such as a cert II in hospitality would be highly regarded, it is more important that you have a friendly disposition, a willingness to help others and demonstrated experience in a customer service or a hospitality environment such as retail, coffee shop, bar, or restaurant.

In addition to this it is essential that you have,

• Demonstrated barista cafe hospitality experience with a passion for providing a friendly customer service environment.
• Full working rights in Australia to be a permanent employee.
• Strong workplace safety attitude, behaviours and "eye" for removing all hazards.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, be a self-starter, confidence and communicates very well with others especially the kitchen staff.
• Ability to problem solve, ‘think on your feet’, show initiative to perform at a high standard
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills and the ability to make people feel welcomed
• Hard Working, flexible with good availability to cover shifts.

Who are we?

We are a rapidly growing national residential aged care provider, with over 30 years’ experience in providing quality individualised care to ageing residents. But we are also so much more! As a collective team, we work hard every day to create a home away from home for our residents, their loved ones, and our staff.

Benefits - Why work for us?

• Fitness Passport that gives you access to discounted fitness, sport and wellness sessions.
• Career growth opportunities within a strong mentoring team culture.
• Access to in-house and online training programs - FREE to all employees.
• Supportive, positive team environment with a strong caring work ethic.
• Companywide safety-first workplaces for our residents, families and staff.
• Positive wellbeing, fun and engaging team / shift activities.
• Access to family friendly benefits like our EAP and Flare (employee discounts).
• Work-Rite Micro professional development FREE to all employees.

Come join us and play your part in Making Aged Care Great!!

NOTE: To be successful in this position you will be required to complete pre-employment checks. You will also need to hold a current NDIS clearance and/or be happy to apply (How to apply | NDIS). Part of your application will be providing proof of age e.g. driver's license or age card (Passport will not be accepted). If you don’t have this, you will need to apply via the state-based Department of Transport websites.