Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

As a Catholic, not-for-profit group, we invest all profits to the communities we serve by updating and expanding our facilities and technology; expanding existing services and developing and acquiring new services; and providing Social Outreach services to people experiencing disadvantage to improve health and wellbeing.

St John of God Bendigo Hospital is a 122-bed contemporary private hospital located in central Victoria providing high quality acute medical and surgical health care services for people in Bendigo and surrounding areas.

Your role at St John of God Bendigo Hospital
You will work alongside theatre staff, you will be responsible for the decontamination, inspection, packaging, and sterilisation of surgical sets.

We are looking for multiple roles across different levels and hours will be negotiated with successful candidates.

The Position

• Maintain cleaning tools and equipment in good condition.
• Restock cleaning and sterilisation supplies and report of low stock.
• Undertake cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of all reusable medical devices within Main Theatre and Day Surgery units.
• Participation in ongoing training and development to enhance your understanding of instrument cleaning, handling, disinfection and sterilization processes.
• Practice good housekeeping to maintain a clean and tidy work area.
• Maintain efficient, standards-based practice to provide quality medical devices for clinical use.
• Perform daily and weekly tests and cleaning as required.
• Keep accurate and thorough documentation.
• Organize repair servicing via MexOps, tagging out as required.

You will have ability to use initiative, demonstrate reliability and thereby require minimal supervision and guidance.

To succeed you will have have understanding of Infection Control principles and practice and

relevant education in sterilising technology is desirable. The ideal candidate will have Cert III/IV in Sterilisation Services (desirable, not mandatory).

Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Salary: $38.15 to $42.13 per hour, depending on qualification, (includes casual loading), plus 12% superannuation
• Casual positions available
• As a casual employee, you can salary package a percentage of your earnings each pay period, which can be applied to a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses
• A welcoming & supportive culture
• Discounts on hospital services & private health insurance
• Option to purchase up to two weeks of additional annual leave

St John of God Health Care embraces diversity and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in our care and proactively take measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.

All caregivers employed by St John of God Health Care are required to be vaccinated from Influenza in order to fulfil the requirements of the role

For enquiries about this position, applicants should contact Kama Taylor, CSSD Manager on 03-5434 3261

If suitable candidates are identified advertisement will close prior to listed date