Join Our Team and Keep Essential Healthcare Facilities in Top Shape!

Make a practical difference to public healthcare through your trade. Maintain and improve hospital facilities while working with a dedicated team committed to safety, quality and reliable service delivery! Temporary full time opportunity!

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About your role

As a Tradesperson – Painter, you will play a hands-on, frontline support role in maintaining and improving the condition, safety and presentation of healthcare facilities across Metro South Health.

In this role, you will:

• Perform planned and reactive painting, decorating, plastering and surface repair works across hospital and healthcare facilities.
• Maintain building infrastructure to a high standard, ensuring quality workmanship and compliance with relevant safety requirements.
• Plan and prioritise maintenance tasks, coordinating materials, equipment, resources and timeframes to deliver efficient outcomes.
• Liaise with colleagues, contractors and stakeholders to coordinate works and minimise disruption to hospital operations.

About you

You're a skilled and reliable tradesperson who takes pride in quality workmanship and understands the importance of maintaining safe, functional environments.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• The ability to work autonomously and collaboratively, demonstrating initiative, sound judgement and a willingness to provide guidance and assistance to team members when required.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to build positive working relationships with colleagues, contractors and stakeholders.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to prioritise maintenance tasks, manage time effectively and consistently deliver accurate, high-quality work.
• Proven painting, decorating, plastering and repair skills, with the ability to apply appropriate techniques across commercial, residential or healthcare environments.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

What we can offer you:

• 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.

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.

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)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS10694724 Role Description (PDF)