Pssa

2 weeks ago


North Adelaide, Australia Downer Group Full time

In this role, you'll play a crucial part in maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for patients, visitors, and staff at the Woman’s & Children's Hospital. You’ll be responsible for a range of cleaning and patient services while ensuring high standards of confidentiality, empathy, and courtesy. If you're committed to providing exceptional service in a healthcare setting, we encourage you to apply.

**This is a full-time role requiring full working rights. You must be available to work a rotating roster across seven days, with shifts starting at 7am and 11am. Typically, the roster includes two weekends on and two weekends off per month.**

**What you’ll do**:

- Perform a variety of cleaning tasks including floor care, high dusting, spot cleaning of walls, doors, internal glass, bathrooms, toilets, fixtures, and vents.
- Ensure adequate supplies of cleaning and toilet requisites are available.
- Follow Infection Control policies and procedures diligently.
- Respond promptly to service requests using hand-held devices.
- Pick up and return equipment, blood, and pharmacy products as directed.
- Manage patient transfers
- Deliver patient meals and manage linen and other supplies.

**What you’ll bring**:

- Certificate III in Health Services Assistance or Health Support Services (preferred but not essential).
- Previous experience in a Patient Support Assistant (PSA) role or similar (preferred).
- Experience in a healthcare environment (desirable).
- Knowledge of cleaning equipment, chemicals, and procedures.
- Understanding of workplace health and safety practices.
- Knowledge of infection control principles and procedures.
- Competency in reading and writing English.
- Strong customer service and safety focus.

**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.

**Why Downer?**

At Downer, we plan, create, and sustain essential public services across Australia and New Zealand. From hospitals to data centres and defence partnerships, we manage critical infrastructure that keeps communities thriving.

**What It Means to Belong at Downer**

We’re proud of our high-performance culture and commitment to diversity, offering:

- Training and development to support and diversify your career.
- With 30% of vacancies filled internally you’ll find real opportunities to advance your career.
- Employee Assistance Program: professional support for you and your family when you need it most.
- You want your work to matter and so do we. With over 26,000 people across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, our team is made up of individuals with unique perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas. _
- We know that diversity makes us stronger and we actively celebrate it through our commitment to inclusion and belonging.-
- As a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, we support flexibility that works for your life, inclusive leadership that values your voice, and equitable access to opportunity so you can do your best work and bring your whole self to it.- If you need support or adjustments through the recruitment process, just let us know, we’re here to help you put your best foot forward.


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