Wardsperson

**Employment Type**:Casual

**Position Classification**:Wardsperson

**Remuneration**: $29.03 - $29.24 Per Hour + 11% Super

**Requisition ID**: REQ449552

**Applications Close: Sunday, 10th December 2023**

**Wardsperson**

**John Hunter Hospital**

**Where you'll be working**:
**About the role**:

- You will be responsible for providing non-clinical support to the emergency department, intensive care unit, and general wards
- You will assist in providing patient-centred care, lifting, positioning, and transporting of patients using appropriate equipment and manual handling techniques
- You will assist nursing staff by ensuring patient's belongings are labelled and transferred to the wards
- You will be supported and mentored by a senior wardsperson with all training provided on the job

**Benefits**:

- Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero
- Superannuation contributions 11%
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals
- Ongoing support and in-house training with MyHealth Learning
- A culture of collaboration, respect, empowerment, and openness

**About you**:

- You are caring, friendly, honest, reliable and hardworking
- You have good time management with a basic knowledge of computers
- You possess the ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team

**Need more information?**

**Information for Applicants**:
**We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.**

**This is a Category A position.**
**Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with** NSW Health policy directive
**PD2023_022: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases**
**for Category A positions prior to offer. **All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.

**All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA).** New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (AIR Immunisation History Statement) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.

Acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement (IHS), or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate, or AIR COVID-19 and Influenza IHS. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.

**HNE Health employees may be eligible for a range of**
**benefits**
**such as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees, long service leave, paid maternity leave, and salary packaging options including meal expenses.