Patient Services Assistant

**Title**:Patient Services Assistant**:

- Location: Ringwood East, VIC, AU, 3135- Job Posting Date: 6 Dec 2024Do you work for Eastern Health currently? If so, please log in to Eastern Health Careers Employee Login using your network login details to see the full range of jobs available to you

**Patient Services Assistant**
- Casual Employment
- Maroondah Hospital
- Rewarding & fast paced role in a dynamic environment. The patient services assistants work closely with our clinical teams to care for our patients. Duties include; internal patient transport, supporting patient care, bed cleaning as well as many other patient facing duties.

**Eastern Health**
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

**About the role**
Patient services assistants support the care of of our patients by supporting the clinical teams in their roles. No day is the same in this role. Patient Services Assistants work accross all areas of the hospital responsible for many patient related tasks. This may include: internal patient transport, bed cleaning, patient support, movemnet of equipment, numerous other cleaning & patient related tasks.

**About you**
To be successful in this role you will possess:

- Certificate III in Healthcare
- Experience in a similar role, desireable
- Experience using CARPS or another task management system
- Experience using bed movers, hover mats and other types of equipment
- Highly developed interpersonal skills
- A strong commitment to high quality care and safety
- The ability to work as part of a diverse team
- Excellent communication and organisational skills

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

**What we offer**

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**

**Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.

Please clck here for Position Description

Contact Person: Robyn Berry

Contact Number: 0398713482

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1) | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3469. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

**Our Values in Action**:
Respect for all | Safe always | Partnering in care | Learning and improving every day