Brigitte Rieder has over 20 years of experience in healthcare, hospitality, and disability support roles. She has strong customer service skills and enjoys teamwork. Rieder is interested in health, nutrition, and preparing vegan/raw foods. Her international travel has made her flexible and open-minded. Her professional history includes roles as a team leader, disability support worker, pastry cook, cook, and registered nurse in Australia, Switzerland, Chile, and Africa/North America. Rieder has completed training in nursing, cooking, baking, jewelry design, massage, and more.
1. Brigitte Rieder
South Fremantle, WA
Mobile: 0449 001 778 - Email: velotour99@yahoo.com
Key Strengths:
Excellent customer service: many years of experience in health care and hospitality
in various roles.
Enjoy team work: reliable and cooperative, experience in leading a team.
Interest in health and nutrition: being a vegetarian for many years; experience
preparing vegan and raw vegan foods; experience working in various cafes with a
wide range of dishes.
Travelling and living in a foreign country has taught me to be flexible and open
minded, developing my improvisation skills and embrace the different.
Professional History:
Team Leader, Studio, Rocky Bay Inc
January 2014 – now
Coordinating and organising programs and activities, planning exhibitions and
events
Liaising with clients and clients’ families to be able to access the studio and
participate in programs
Facilitate team meetings, performance reviews, job interviews and do rostering and
time sheets for staff
Coordinating with other departments to provide excellent and flawless customer
service
Ordering art and kitchen materials, tools and machines for the workshop,
coordinating the maintenance of our machines and ensure the general maintenance
and safety in the woodwork and studio
Disability Support Worker, Studio, Rocky Bay Inc
April 2012 – January 2014
Supporting clients with various disabilities in their daily activities and studio
programs (cooking, painting, woodwork, gardening, pottery, massage etc)
Pastry Cook, Café Lumos, White Gum Valley
April 2012 – January 2014
2. Making cakes and desserts for café, sometimes helping out with catering orders or
food service
Cook and Pastry Cook, New Norcia Bakery and Café, Mt. Hawthorn
February 2011 – April 2012
Preparing and making breakfast and lunches, take away food and tapas.
Ordering ingredients
Helping out in the pastry section, making cakes, slices and cookies, pizzas and pies
Cleaning kitchen
Cook, Raw Kitchen, Fremantle
April 2010 - February 2011
Preparing and serving raw vegan food (using dehydrator, spiralizer, food processor)
Preparing nut milks
Making raw vegan desserts
Ordering ingredients
Cleaning kitchen
Cook, Café Lumos, White Gum Valley
March 2009 - April 2010
Preparing and serving breakfast and lunch
Preparing and baking cakes, slices and cookies
Preparing and cooking for catering orders
Ordering ingredients
Clean kitchen
Café Staff, South Beach Kiosk, South Fremantle
January 2008 - March 2009
Serving customers at the till, taking orders
Making coffee
Baking muffins, cakes and slices
Helping out in the kitchen when busy
Clear tables, wash dishes, clean front and kitchen
Order ingredients, drinks
Home Support Worker and Nurses Aid, AAA Nurses Agency, Perth
January 2006 – January 2008
Giving home support to people with a disability and elderly with personal care,
meal support, medication and cleaning
3. Cycling for 4 months in Australia
Registered Nurse, Orthopaedic and Trauma ward, Regional Hospital,
Baden, Switzerland
January 2002 - June 2005
Working as a registered nurse and overseeing training nurses during their work
placement; example of some of my duties: giving medication (oral, injections, iv,
etc), personal care, meal support, wound care, taking blood samples, post op
monitoring, pre op prep, ordering blood and do transfusions, etc
Helping out with rostering, ordering supplies and medication
Travelling in Chile
October 2001 – December 2001
Paediatric Nurse, Day Surgery, Private Practice, Switzerland
January 2000 – September 2001
Working as a registered nurse; example of some of my duties: giving medication
(oral, injections, iv, etc), personal care, meal support, wound care, taking blood
samples, post op monitoring, pre op prep, instructing parents with op after care, etc
Helping out with rostering, ordering supplies and medication
Helping out during surgery
Travelling by bicycle through Africa and Northern America
June 1998 – December 1999
Paediatric Nurse, Medical Ward, Paediatric Hospital, Zuerich, Switzerland
January 1997 – May 1998
Working as a registered nurse and overseeing training nurses during their work
placement; example of some of my duties: giving medication (oral, injections, iv,
etc), personal care, meal support, wound care, taking blood samples, post op
monitoring, pre op prep, ordering blood and do transfusions, instructing parents, etc
Paediatric Nurse, ICU, Paediatric Hospital, Basel
November 1995 – January 1997
Working as a registered nurse; example of some of my duties: giving medication
(oral, injections, iv, etc), personal care, meal support, wound care, taking blood
4. samples, post op monitoring, pre op prep, ordering blood and do transfusions,
instructing parents, tracheotomy care, etc
Education and Training:
2013 Cert lll Disability Support Work, Rocky Bay, Mosman
Park
2010 Cert lll Commercial Cooking, TAFE, Beaconsfield
2009 Cert lll Retail Baking and Pastry, TAFE, Bently
2006 – 2008 Advanced Diploma in Jewellery and Object Design, TAFE,
Perth
1992 – 1995 Traineeship Registered Nurse, Paediatric Hospital, Basel,
Switzerland
1989 – 1992 Traineeship Office Employee, ABB, Baden, Switzerland
Courses and Achievements:
Reiki Courses Level 1 and 2
Massage Courses, Swedish and Trigger Point
First Aid and Mental Health First Aid
Leading Teams Training
Healing Touch Level 1,2 and 3
Safeguarding training
Coaching Course “Conversations that Matter”
Open Water Diving Certificate
Finalist for the Contemporary Wearables Competition, Toowoomba
City, QLD