Catering Manager

Catering Manager

WA Health Murdoch Full-time, Permanent Appointment On-site Salary: HSO Level G7 $127,194 - $135,150 p.a. pro rata

At WA Health, careers are built, passion finds purpose, and your voice finds its place. Are you ready to contribute to community health care? South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) offers this opportunity.

Fiona Stanley Hospital (FSH), the southern metropolitan region's major tertiary/quaternary hospital, comprises over 800 beds. It provides a range of health services including the State Rehabilitation Service, a comprehensive cancer centre, a purpose-built mental health unit, maternity, paediatric and neonatal services, and the State Adult Burns Service. FSH also offers specialised services such as heart and lung transplantations and hyperbaric medicine. SMHS delivers quality, safe, and effective hospital and health services across an area exceeding 3300 square kilometres in the southern half of Perth, guided by the vision of "Excellent health care, every time."

SMHS is seeking a Catering Manager to lead the operational effectiveness of Food Service functions, ensuring high-quality, safe, and cost-effective food provision.

This senior leadership role involves the end-to-end operational management of patient catering services within a complex tertiary healthcare environment. The service provides six meals daily and approximately 72,000 cold-plated meals per month using regenerative food systems. You will manage a multidisciplinary workforce of over 120 staff, ensuring services consistently meet diverse dietary requirements, strict allergen controls, and IDDSI-compliant texture-modified standards.

You are an experienced catering or food service leader with strong operational expertise and the ability to confidently operate within a large-scale, highly regulated environment. Your leadership style is clear, supportive, and adaptable, enabling you to lead teams through complexity and change while maintaining high standards of performance and compliance. A sound understanding of food production and food safety systems will establish credibility with frontline teams and stakeholders.

You will demonstrate the ability to balance workforce demands, service delivery requirements, and operational constraints, while continuously driving improvement and adapting practices across healthcare or similarly regulated settings. Experience in healthcare, aged care, or institutional catering is highly regarded; however, candidates from other industries are encouraged to apply if they can demonstrate safe, patient-focused service delivery. Experience with automated menu systems will be advantageous.

SMHS values guide all actions, including recruitment and employment. SMHS encourages Aboriginal people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTI communities, and people with disability to work with them. Age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and family/carer responsibilities are not barriers to contributing your expertise.

Contact: For further information, please contact Shivani Sharma at 04•• ••• 296.

Application Instructions: Your application should include:

• A copy of your current CV.
• A statement addressing the selection criteria, no more than 2-3 pages.
• The names and contact details of two (2) current referees who can attest to your suitability for this role.

These documents should be complete and ready to attach prior to applying online. Please allow sufficient time to complete the online application process, as you will be required to answer various questions and attach your documentation.

For assistance with online application difficulties, please contact Employee Services on 13 •4 77 during business hours.

Employee Benefits: Employees may enjoy benefits such as:

• Professional Development Opportunities and Study leave/assistance.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Flexible leave arrangements.
• Other professional and location-based allowances.

Further information is available [here].

Eligibility: To be eligible for appointment, applicants must hold a valid working visa (for fixed-term appointments) or be an Australian citizen, permanent resident, or hold a visa that permits indefinite living and working in Australia (for permanent appointments).

WA Health embraces diversity and is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination. We are committed to growing the Aboriginal workforce as part of WA Health’s Aboriginal Workforce Policy. As a measure to achieve equality, Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 applies to this position. Aboriginal people are encouraged to apply.