Your new role:
As a General Services Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in supporting clinical staff and ensuring a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for patients. You will do this by:
Performing all cleaning duties for your designated area following infection management guidelines and hospital policies.
Assisting nursing staff with patient care, including patient positioning, turns, and transport.
Transporting patients safely within the hospital in line with OH&S guidelines.
Handling, collecting, transporting, and storing all categories of waste and linen correctly.
Maintaining strict confidentiality of patient and hospital information.
Participating in training, coaching, and workplace orientation for new staff and students.
Following all service quality standards and occupational health and safety procedures.
About you:
The ideal candidate will have the skills, knowledge, and attributes to support clinical teams effectively. You'll bring:
Knowledge of hospital cleaning techniques and infection management practices.
Ability to assist healthcare professionals with basic patient care tasks.
Strong understanding of waste handling and linen management.
Excellent communication skills with patients, staff, and the public, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
Commitment to Metro South Health's values and objectives to provide safe, accountable, and high-quality care.
High-level computer skills and a willingness to learn and develop on the job.
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What we can offer you:
Casual, flexible work that fits around your lifestyle.
Comprehensive training and development to help you grow your skills.
Supportive team environment with opportunities to make a real difference to patient care.
You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About us:
Logan Hospital:
Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing areas in Queensland. We offer a range of services, including medical, rehabilitation, maternity, surgical and paediatric care.
We offer our staff and students extensive support and training in most medical specialties. As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland's leading medical schools, universities, and TAFE Queensland.
Our services will continue to grow as we build bigger and better facilities to support the community. By 2027, we'll have more beds and 5 more birthing suites as part of the Logan Hospital expansion.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
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