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Kitchen hand and Housekeeper at a Yoga retreat in Blue Mountains!

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The experience

We are looking for someone who will help our chef in the kitchen and also with housekeeping (around 6 hours a week). Duties will mainly be preparing and serving food, cleaning the kitchen. 2 or 3 days a week we all need to do housekeeping as well (cleaning toilets, vacuum, beds)
We also might have additional tasks that include gardening, deep cleaning and maintenance (if you're skilled in that area too)

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Requirements

Fluent English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

20-25 hours a week in exchange for accomodation, food and yoga classes. We also have 2 pools and a sauna!
Accomodation: We have small private cabins and a shared dorm. What you get depends on availability.
The roster does fluctuate each week depending on how many retreats we have running so the daily hours are different each day but never goes over 25 hours per week.

Activities & Shift

Kitchen shifts: Helping the chef prepare the food (cutting vegetables ect), Putting out and serving the food to guests, washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen.

Housekeeping shifts: You will be assigned one task when you work in a team. This could be cleaning toilets, making beds, vacuuming, cleaning showers or cleaning the common areas of the hotel.

Rules

We are a vegetarian retreat. No meat can be brought onto our property or cooked in our kitchens!

Strictly no alcohol, smoking or illegal drugs. No outside guests or pets please.
Must love cats! We have two cats on the property :)