- Are you a passionate hospitality leader with a flair for great food, community connection, and inclusive leadership?
- Permanent, full-time role based in Orange
- We are for people, not for profit
LiveBetter Employee Benefits include:
- Salary Packaging (increase your take home pay)!
- Access to our 24/7 employee wellbeing & safety app
- Supplementary Parental Leave
- Additional Purchase Leave
- Employee Referral Program
- Fitness Passport
- Service & Recognition Awards
- Learning and Development opportunities, with diverse career pathway options
(Eligibility criteria/terms and conditions may apply for some LiveBetter Employee Benefits)
About the Team
Community Support Services support people in regional communities across Eastern Australia to live better lives through education, social and community participation, capacity building, and transport services.
We support parents, families, children, people with disability, aged people, transport disadvantaged and regional communities.
About the Role
As our Café Manager/Chef, you’ll be the driving force behind Café Connect’s day-to-day operations and strategic growth.
From crafting delicious meals to mentoring staff and supporting people of all abilities in hospitality training, your leadership will help foster a thriving café culture and a welcoming, inclusive community space.
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Daily staff management including task allocation, rostering, recruitment, training and quality control.
- Ensure consistently excellent customer service and café cleanliness.
- Oversee the menu, food quality control, food storage and preparation, ordering and stock control.
- Prepare, cook and present high-quality food.
- Lead financial management, menu costing, budgets, cash handling and delegations.
- Manage café operations in accordance with legislation, standards, permits, compliance obligations and internal Policies and Procedures.
- Be the designated Food Safety Supervisor for Café Connect.
- Drive business development opportunities for walk-in customers and catering including liaising with the Marketing team for promotions and marketing.
- Complete monthly operational reports.
- Assist with the training and involvement of our Transition to Work Customers along with other volunteers.
- Work with management to explore and develop catering opportunities and development of a commercial training kitchen.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you are a professional and caring person who is prepared to embrace our values of Integrity, Respect, Cooperation, Empowerment and Excellence in your day-to-day work life.
To be successful in this role, you will also have the following:
- At least five years’ experience in Café management, ideally with trade qualifications.
- Current Food Safety Supervisor certification.
- Experience in leading a small team, including knowledge of staff rostering.
- Experience in training and development in a hospitality environment, ideally with exposure to working with people living with a disability.
- Current unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence.
- Current First Aid and CPR Certificates.
For detailed information about this role, please refer to the position description.
You will also be required to undertake and pass a National Criminal Check, pre-employment wellness check, (including drug and alcohol screening) and obtain an NSW Working with Children Check.
Sounds great?
What next?
To convince us that you are the best person for the job, please provide a resume and cover letter that clearly demonstrates how your skills, experience and qualifications meet the requirements for this role.
Closing date: 11:59pm Sunday 5th October 2025 (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Enquiries: Adam Uren, Recruitment Advisor - 0473 888 421
LiveBetter is committed to equal employment opportunity and embraces diversity and inclusion within its workforce.
As such, people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
This includes but is not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds.
About LiveBetter
LiveBetter Community Services are one of the largest regionally based providers of community services in Eastern Australia.
We strive to enable the people of regional Australia to live their best lives.
For further info about us and to see for yourself the great things that we do, you can visit:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/livebettercommunityservices/
https://www.facebook.com/LiveBetterAustralia/
https://livebetter.org.au/
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Operations Specialties Managers