Help Keep Our Hospital Safe & Clean

Support a clean, safe and welcoming hospital environment at Princess Alexandra Hospital. Join a supportive team where your work directly contributes to quality patient care and infection prevention.

Job details

Your new role:

As an Environmental Services Assistant, you'll play an important role in supporting patient care by maintaining a clean, safe and hygienic environment across Princess Alexandra Hospital. Working as part of a dedicated team, you'll help ensure patients, visitors and staff experience a welcoming and well-maintained healthcare facility while following infection prevention and workplace safety standards. In this role, you will:

• Clean patient rooms, clinical areas, offices and public spaces.
• Safely remove waste and soiled linen following infection control procedures.
• Complete specialised cleaning, including terminal and infectious cleans.
• Operate and maintain cleaning equipment and chemicals safely.

About you:

You're a reliable, motivated team player who takes pride in delivering high-quality work. You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and understand the importance of cleanliness in supporting patient care. You'll bring:

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to high cleaning standards.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• A flexible, reliable approach with a strong focus on safety and infection control.

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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:

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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  MS07688107 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)