Darling Downs Health is seeking a Cook to join our team in Toowoomba. In this role, you’ll prepare safe, nutritious meals that support patient wellbeing while working within Queensland Health guidelines. You’ll be part of a supportive team where compassion, integrity, dignity, innovation, and courage guide how we work together and care for others.
What Your Day Will Look Like…
You’ll spend your time preparing and cooking meals that meet food safety standards and dietary needs, following approved recipes to ensure consistency and quality. You’ll check ingredients for freshness, maintain a clean and hygienic kitchen, and keep accurate records as part of the food production process. Working alongside colleagues, you’ll contribute to patient satisfaction by delivering meals that are both safe and nourishing. Every interaction—whether with teammates or through the meals you prepare—reflects our values of compassion, integrity, dignity, innovation, and courage.
Let’s talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
- Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
- Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
- Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
- Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
- Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.
Why Us?
Darling Downs Health’s (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Advantages!
- Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
- A diverse work culture
- Career development
- Professional development opportunities
- Education opportunities, Study and Research
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing
Next step…
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
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