- Full time, fixed term position until December 2025
- Parkville location with accessible public transport options
- $62,540.40 + salary packaging + super + 5 weeks annual leave
The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of women and newborns, offering specialist services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health. Our goal is to provide exceptional experiences for our patients and consumers and to be the best place to work, learn and contribute.
About Food Services
Our Food Services department is responsible for providing all patient meals. Our aim is to ensure that our meals are safe, appropriate for our patient’s needs and served with care.
About the role
An opportunity exists to join our team of Menu Monitors, involving a range of tasks including:
- Patient menu collection
- Menu data entry and ordering
- Food safety checks
- Supervising patient meal service
- Maintaining ward food supplies
- Administrative and quality activities
This part time Menu Monitor role offers three shifts per week, including some weekends and both early (06:30 - 15:00) and late (10:30 - 19:00) shifts. There may be frequent additional shifts offered to cover staff leave.
About you
To be successful within this role, you will need to have:
- Food service experience in health or hospitality
- Flexibility in working hours
- Intermediate computer skills, including ability to manage word documents, excel spreadsheets and email
- Ability to work without supervision as well as part of a team
- Ability to understand the needs of patients from diverse social, religious and cultural background
- High level of written and verbal communication skills across multiple levels of an organization
Our benefits
At the Women’s you will enjoy a culture that is collaborative, supportive and passionate about learning. We have a strong sense of purpose, and engage in meaningful work every day. We offer our people a range of rewarding benefits, including:
- Up to $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted financial, lifestyle and health options, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Public transport options at our doorstep and end of trip facilities for cyclists
- Onsite post office, eateries, retail stores and library services
- Breastfeeding and pumping rooms, and a range of daycare centres nearby
- Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities
- Five weeks annual leave, 17.5% leave loading, monthly ADO’s and purchased leave options
Inclusion and belonging
The Women’s celebrates, values and supports a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects our vibrant community. We encourage applications from anyone identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also welcome anyone who identifies as LGBTQIA+, linguistically, culturally and/or gender diverse, people with disability, and people of any age to apply for our roles. We are committed to gender equity principles, and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women and family violence matters. We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited.
Join us!
If you feel this role is right for you we warmly invite you to apply, and encourage your early application. All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and a valid Working with Children Check. Clinical staff are required to be vaccinated against, or demonstrate immunity to, COVID-19, influenza, and a range of other diseases.
Should you need assistance or require any adjustments or accommodations to fully participate in the application or interview process, or if you require an accessible copy of the position description, you are most welcome to reach out to the contact person listed. We acknowledge that not all applicants will meet the full list of selection criteria outlined, and wherever possible we will consider applications where relevant experience can apply.
For more information, please view the position description for this role.
If you have any enquiries, please contact Julia Zinga and Colleen Oliver on (03) 8345 3160.
Application closing date: 7th November 2025