Operational Officer Reliever

Variety, Flexibility & Purpose - Join Our Operational Services Team!

Join our Operational Services team and play an important role in supporting the delivery of healthcare services across Mount Isa Hospital. This flexible position provides leave coverage across a variety of service areas, offering diverse work, a supportive team environment, and the opportunity to make a real difference to patients, staff, and visitors every day.

About the role

As an Operational Services Officer, you'll provide essential support across multiple service areas within Mount Isa Hospital.

Working within a dynamic 24-hour, 7-day environment, you'll contribute to the smooth day-to-day operation of hospital services while helping maintain a safe, welcoming, and efficient healthcare setting.

Working with us

• Tax savings through
  salary sacrificing options
  are also available.
• In your downtime, we offer 4 weeks p.a. recreational leave with a 17.5% loading/bonus.
• Professionally, our HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff. We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.
• PLUS, access to the Training, Education and Professional Development Incentive funds.

Requirements

• The position may require successful applicants to undertake continuous shift work and to work all shifts in accordance with the unit roster across all areas of operational services including Catering Services, Wardsperson, Laundry Services and Cleaning Services.
• Physical ability to carry out frequent and repetitive lifting, manual handling of goods and patients.
• Adhere to Uniform Dress code for the Health Service.
• Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Criminal History checks.
• This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.
• A period of probation may apply.

About North West Hospital and Health Service

• Unique locations
• Friendly communities
• Regional, rural and remote $$$ incentives

The lifestyle in Mount Isa is family friendly; it is a vibrant city with an outback community feel. You will fall in love with the natural splendour of the North West Queensland region, the experience of a rural/urban community and the opportunity to make a real and positive difference... and want to stay.

Interested?

Download the Role Description for further information and application / interview preparation.

Contact: Michelle Connolly on (07) 4744 4***.

Applications close: Thursday, 3 September 2026.