Patient Services Assistant

**Patient Services Assistant Full Time leave reliever 38 hours per week**

We are seeking a Patient Services Assistant who will be an integral member of our Environmental Department team. Provide patient room and ward cleaning duties, food and beverage services, transportation of patients and patient support.
- The leave reliever will cover staff who are annual, long service leave, or personel leave. Your roster will vary according to the vacant position across morning, afternoon and evening shifts
- Located at Mercy Hospital for Women - Environmental Services Department
- Provide high standard of services
- Food and beverage service and general ward and patient support
- Responsible for ensuring that Victorian Public Health cleaning and food safety standards are met

**ABOUT YOU**:

- Excellent customer service skills and have a passion for attention to detail
- Open and honest communication skills
- A commitment to policies and procedures in order to maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients, staff and members of the public
- Possess or working towards Health Services Assistant Certificate III

**ABOUT US**:
Mercy Hospital for Women is a fully accredited Level 6 Public Specialist Teaching Hospital providing both public and private patient care through maternity services, neonatology and paediatrics, perioperative services, gynaecology, women's health and associated health, support and diagnostic services.

We are a major teaching hospital and specialist referral centre with the medical, nursing, midwifery and allied health expertise to treat the most complex obstetric, neonatal and gynaecological cases. Mercy Health is a Catholic organisation grounded in a 2,000-year tradition of caring for others. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Health is made up of more than 9,500 people who provide acute and subacute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, maternity and specialist women's health services, early parenting services, home care services and health worker training and development.

Mercy Health is proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the WGEA.

***WHAT WE OFFER**:

- Mercy Health recognises that people are searching for meaning in their work life and finding a workplace that connects with their values is a key motivation when choosing an employer. As a not-for-profit healthcare provider, Mercy Health has a strong mission and clear values that guide us in everything we do. We pride ourselves on:

- caring for our people and those important to them with generous employee assistance available for employees and their families
- protecting children and vulnerable people in all our services, by listening to them and having zero tolerance of any form of abuse and neglect
- taking a stand against climate change, which is one of the biggest threats to the health of the world and all humanity, and committing to action that will help make our world fairer and more sustainable
- offering benefits such as generous salary packaging, purchased leave, career progression and development opportunities, access to health and wellbeing programs and a range of discounts across a diverse portfolio of financial, healthcare, travel and other services.

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED**:

- Proof of vaccination status consistent with public health orders and with Mercy Health’s policy (includes but is not limited to COVID-19 and seasonal influenza vaccination compliance requirement).

Mercy Health has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations)

If you have any questions or require any adjustments to ensure a fair and equitable interview and selection process please contact us on the details below.

**CONTACT DETAILS**:
Contact: Saveuy Mangala, Environmental Services Manager
Phone: 03 8458 4322

Mrs Saveuy Mangala