Distribution Services Assistant

**About the role**

As a Distribution Servies Assistant, you will play a critical role in managing waste and distribution services within the Women's & Childrens Hospital. Your responsibilities will include the effective handling and transportation of waste materials, ensuring compliance with infection control standards and safety regulations. By maintaining a clean and safe environment, you will directly contribute to the wellbeing of patients, visitors, and staff. Your interactions will include patients, the public, and facility staff, ensuring confidentiality, empathy, and courtesy at all times.

Key responsibilities but not limited to:

- Collect and transport waste materials, ensuring compliance with infection control standards and safety protocols.
- Distribute general items, including gas cylinders, prescriptions, specimens, and food items.
- Manage the collection and distribution of linen, ensuring timely delivery to designated areas.
- Conduct Patient Room Discharge cleaning and maintain cleanliness in designated areas, including infectious or isolation areas.
- Actively participate in the hospital’s Infection Control program, adhering to relevant policies and procedures.
- Follow Downer’s health and safety policies, identifying and reporting hazards proactively to ensure a safe working environment.

**About you**
- Completion of secondary education (preferred).
- Previous experience in a stores or distribution position within a similar environment (preferred).
- Ability to interact courteously and empathetically with patients, visitors, and staff.
- High level of accuracy in handling distributions, waste management, and cleaning tasks.
- Capability to prioritise tasks effectively in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
- Understanding of workplace health and safety regulations, including infection control principles.
- Ability to convey information clearly and positively, fostering a collaborative work environment.

**About us**

Downer is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. Through trusted relationships and world leading insight we work closely with our customers to design, build and sustain assets, infrastructure and facilities.

Our Facilities & Asset Services business provides end-to-end facilities management and asset lifecycle support services for Australia’s critical social and economic infrastructure. Operating across the health, education, government, future energy, power generation, oil and gas and industrial sectors, we work closely with our customers to optimise the reliability, efficiency and whole of life costs of their assets and facilities.

Downer acts as the facility manager at The Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH). The RAH is the largest, busiest and most technologically advanced hospital in Australia with 800 single in-patient rooms, including 100 same-day beds and 80,000 same-day and overnight patient admissions per year.

**Why work for us?**

Working for the Downer Group, means every day you will be enabling our communities to thrive. With a bright future ahead of us, you find purpose here and have the opportunity to directly impact and contribute positively to our future. You’ll also find a range of benefits available such as:

- Opportunities for training and development to support your career.
- Internal career opportunities across the Downer Group business.
- Highly competitive employee exclusive discounts and benefits scheme.
- An Employee Assistance Program providing access to professionals to support you (and your family) to achieve your personal or professional goals through wellbeing coaching, counselling, financial advice, legal advice and more.