At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

Help Shape Futures at C&K Mt Gravatt West Childcare Centre

As our highly valued Cook with our C&K Mt Gravatt West Childcare Centre team, you’ll create nourishing meals that fuel the bodies and minds of the children in our care. And with the close support of our Kitchen Operations Supervisor, you will ensure all our little learner’s dietary requirements are well supported. In this role, you will prepare nutritious, age-appropriate meals and snacks for children, cater to dietary requirements, and maintain high standards of food safety and kitchen hygiene. The ideal candidate will have experience in cooking (preferably in a childcare setting), hold a Food Safety Certificate, and have a genuine passion for supporting children’s health and wellbeing. If you enjoy working in a friendly, supportive environment and making a positive impact, we would love to hear from you.

Join our vibrant team at C&K Mt Gravatt West centre, where our Cook plays a key role in nurturing children’s wellbeing through nutritious, home-style meals that fuel learning, growth, and happiness every day.

• Permanent Part time Position - Monday to Friday
• 5 hours a day - 8am to 1pm
• C&K Mount Gravatt West is tucked away in a quiet end of Clough Street in Mt Gravatt. Our centre is less than 15 minutes from the Brisbane city centre and close to bus stops servicing the area.
• Be rewarded for your commitment with a wage rate of $32.48-$37.79 per hour plus superannuation.

Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.

• Find a healthy work-life balance with family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres and discounts of up to 75% of the gap fee.
• Funded Blue Card and Police Check.
• No weekends or evenings, with set hours each and every week.
• Plus so much more!

What you’ll bring

If you’re committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success!

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

• A Certificate III in Commercial Cookery (or related discipline) and Quality Food Supervisor Certificate is ideal, but we are happy to consider unqualified applicants with experience.
• Valid Blue Card and current Police Check.
• Mandatory Child Safety Training Certificate

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a ‘Restricted Person’ or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System.

We welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and /or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs.

Mt Gravatt, QLD