At a Glance
- Tasks: Support aged care residents with cleaning, food prep, and laundry tasks.
- Company: Join St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, a leader in compassionate care.
- Benefits: Enjoy salary packaging, fitness discounts, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible hours, focus on wellbeing, and a culture of continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a positive impact on residents' lives while working in a supportive team.
- Qualifications: Experience in cleaning and food handling, strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60476 - 60476 $ per year.
- Permanent part time position 16 hours per week with ability to work across the roster on the Mental Health Unit.
- Excellent benefits including salary packaging
About the Role
You will provide a range of support services for our aged care residents, working as part of a team to deliver best practice care.
We provide a customer focused model, and you will assist with food preparation, cleaning and laundry tasks.
You have a passion for positively impacting people’s lives, providing assistance and support with services in line with our resident’s needs, abilities and choices.
- Assist in preparing short order meals for residents, and coordinate and prepare their daily menu and beverage choices
- Wash residents’ meal plates/ kitchen trays and ensure the kitchen, pantry and all kitchen equipment, including refrigerators/ ovens and benches, are kept clean.
- Assist the cleaning team with the facility, including resident rooms/ bathrooms / living areas/ dining areas and staff and public areas
- Sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, scrubbing, detail dusting, glass cleaning , resident bed making and kitchen cleaning to support the comfort of our residents
- Continued compliance to Infection Control procedures
- Assist the Laundry team by taking the trolleys to the laundry, washing, drying, pressing, folding and return of residents laundry to their room
- The classification for this position will be GV90 ($60,476 per annum pro rata)
- Your Contribution
- Experience in cleaning, and food and beverage handling/preparation (preferably in an aged care setting)
- Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Highly developed communication skills
- Previous experience in a hospital and/or residential facility would be highly desirable
- Current NDIS Check, or willing to obtain
What We Offer
- A focus on wellbeing initiatives, with regular events and programs
- Confidential, solutions-focused employee counselling
- A healthy work/life balance encouraged.
- Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
- Discounts and Promotions always available through our Foundation
- Regular opportunities for professional development to assist you to reach your career goals
- Culture of continuous improvement
Berengarra, a new multi storey 90 bed state of the art residential aged care facility comprises 60 mainstream and 30 Aged Persons’ Mental Health (APMH) beds designed to deliver contemporary best practice person centered care.
Berengarra compliments a suite of existing St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne’s residential facilities.
You will be a part of a dedicated, dynamic and forward thinking team that comes together for a common goal, the care of our residents.
Working at St Vincent’s
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service.
SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.
SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings.
You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).
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