Environmental Services Attendant

**Date**:21 Feb 2025

**Location**: 50 Flemington Rd, AU

**Company**:theroyalch

**The Hospital**:
The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here.

**The Role**:
An opportunity has become available within The Royal Children’s Hospital for Environmental Services Attendant in the Overnight Accommodation Department.

**Part-time fixed term position until**30th June 2025** at 60 hours per fortnight**:
**Week 1: Monday - Friday 7.30am - 2.00pm**

**Week 2: Monday - Friday 7.30am - 2.00pm**

Environmental Service Attendants responsibilities are to provide a clean environment to clinical and non-clinical areas of the hospital. Reporting to the Support Services Coordinator, you will maintain a clean & safe environment within the hospital. You will also be aware of requirements to ensure that practice is consistent with Infection Control guidelines, policy and according to Cleaning Standards for Victorian Health Facilities.

Your well-developed written and verbal communication skills combined with your interpersonal skills will provide you with the ability to work within a team environment in varying locations throughout the hospital. Your customer focus attention to detail will enable you to provide a high level service to patients, families and colleagues.

**To be successful in this role you will have**:

- Well-developed communication skills (verbal and written).
- Proven interpersonal skills.
- Commitment to service excellence.
- High attention to detail.
- Ability to adapt to a multifunctional and diverse environment.
- Willingness to undertake required training.
- A true team player.
- Ability to resolve conflict in a professional manner.
- Ability to establish and maintain a good working relationship with a diverse team.
- Hardworking
- Keen, reliable and punctual
- Physically fit for manual work.

**Why work at the RCH?**

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption