Ward Support Officer

Calvary Bruce Private Hospital

Casual Positions

• Make a difference at one of Canberra’s leading private healthcare providers
• Excellent salary packaging options available

About Calvary Bruce Private Hospital

Calvary Bruce Private Hospital is one of Canberra’s leading private healthcare providers featuring eight state-of-the-art digitally integrated theatres, including a hybrid cath lab as well as the only dedicated private mental health facility in the ACT. Our values of Hospitality, Healing, Stewardship and Respect underpin all that we do. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applicants from culturally diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities and various life experiences and faiths. Here at Calvary Bruce Private we work together to provide opportunities that empower and enrich our staff. 

About the role

Ward Support Officers form an integral part of our diverse Perioperative Services team. They provide support and assistance to their clinical team members with patient care, manual handling and transportation of patients. Ensuring an effective patient journey throughout the healthcare setting with a focus on the movement of patients between the wards and departments.

Our Hospital has eight state-of-the-art digitally integrated theatres that accommodate everything from day procures to complex surgery with surgical specialties such as Pain, General Surgery, Bariatrics, Gynaecology, Minor & Major Orthopaedics, Urology, Occulo-Plastics, Ophthalmology, Endoscopy, and Dental.

Highly Desirable:

• Demonstrated ability to be flexible, by being receptive to new ideas, and responsive to changing work demands and circumstances
• ability to cooperate and share information with others, and support, accommodate and work effectively with their different working styles
• Demonstrated ability in undertaking patient transfers and other manual handling tasks in accordance with hospital policy and safe work practices