Start Your Healthcare Career in the Sterilising Services

Be part of a critical hospital team reprocessing surgical instruments and supporting safe patient care in a leading tertiary hospital environment at Princess Alexandra Hospital. This role is temporary part time or full time for 4 months.

Job details

Your new role:

As an Assistant in Nursing – Sterilising Services, you'll be an essential member of the Central Sterilising Services Department (CSSD), ensuring surgical and medical equipment is safely cleaned, disinfected and sterilised to the highest standards. In this role, you will:

• Reprocess reusable surgical and medical instruments in line with national standards
• Maintain infection control, safety and quality sterilisation practices
• Assist with stock management, equipment checks and documentation
• Work collaboratively within a supportive, multidisciplinary team across rotating shifts
  
  

About you:

You are reliable, detail-focused and take pride in contributing to safe healthcare services. You will bring:

• Certificate III in Sterilising Services (or commitment to complete within 12 months)
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to infection control standards
• Ability to work effectively under supervision in a fast-paced environment
• A positive team attitude with clear communication and reliability

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• 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:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS01673720 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)