Ward Assistant

**Ward Assistant**
**Central Allocations Unit**
**Casual - PS21**

**About Grampians Health**

Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.

This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.

A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse, as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.

Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.

**About the role**

The Ward Assistant role is highly active and fast paced. You will have the ability to multi task, manage competing priorities and be self-driven while working mostly unsupervised. The role requires you to provide non-medical assistance to staff and patients in the Acute sector of Grampians Health Ballarat. Successful applicants will be required to work across a variety of shifts: 8.00am - 4.30pm, 4.30pm - 9.00pm and 9.00pm - 7.30am. Paid training is offered to successful applicants.

Casual bank is managed by the Central Allocations Unit which operates 7 days a week. Grampians Health uses an electronic rostering system (RosterOn) which matches staff for shifts based on their availabilities via text / phone call.

Casual bank shifts can be offered within short time frames, therefore to be considered for this role you must be living in the Ballarat region.

You will be required to provide 2 referees, one being your current direct manager and the second another manager / supervisor.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Maintaining accurate availability in our electronic rostering system and accepting shifts based on availability
- Cleaning patient areas, bathrooms, equipment and utility rooms in the clinical ward environment
- Prepare patient beds for admission
- Attending to general housekeeping duties as required by the clinical ward
- Transfer medical equipment, patient files and results between departments according to hospital protocol and as directed
- Transporting specimens to pathology department as directed
- Maintain stock levels of linen and non-medical supplies
- Participate in annual performance reviews
- Commitment to ongoing mandatory education

**Skills and experience**
- Demonstrated high level communication to be able to interact with a wide variety of individuals
- Demonstrated ability to function within a team
- Demonstrated person-centred care and respectful approach to patients, visitors and staff
- The ability to prioritise work
- The ability to work with limited supervision
- Demonstrates ability to be involved with change management processes and be supportive with the implementation as directed by the manager
- Current Working With Children Check, or willingness to obtain

**Grampians Health Culture & Benefit**

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Paid orientation
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Discounted on-site parking
- Staff rewards and recognition programs

**How to apply**

Click **APPLY** or contact Melanie Robillard, Recruitment Team Lead, on 5320 6577 for a confidential discussion.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
- Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people._

**Selection Criteria**
- Desirable : Casual bank staff are frequently required to fill shifts with little/short notice. Please detail your current availability, and how many shifts per week are you able to commit to?
- Essential : Describe your previous Healthcare / cleaning experience.
- Essential : Describe a process / tool you have used to keep track of items requiring your attention. Tell me about a time when you used this process (Looking for: the situation, what you did, why you did it and what the outcome was).
- Essential : We've all been in situations in which we couldn't complete everything we needed to on time. Tell me about a time when this happened to you (Looking for: the situation, your actions and the result of yo