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Operating Theatre Assistant (Endoscopy)
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Support Safe Patient Care in Endoscopy | QEII Hospital
Metro South Health is seeking an Operating Theatre Assistant to join the Endoscopy team at QEII Jubilee Hospital. This permanent full-time OO3 role provides essential operational support in theatre, ensuring safe patient transfers, clean procedure environments, and efficient set-up of surgical equipment and consumables.
Your New Role
As an Operating Theatre Assistant (Endoscopy), you will play a vital role in supporting the safe and efficient operation of endoscopy services. Working within the theatre support team, you will assist surgical staff, prepare and maintain procedure rooms, and contribute to high-quality patient care and outcomes.
Key Responsibilities Include
Preparing and setting up procedure rooms with required equipment and consumables
Assisting with safe patient transfers between waiting, procedure, and recovery areas
Cleaning and maintaining endoscopy rooms, change areas, and associated spaces
Removing waste and soiled linen in accordance with infection control protocols
Supporting the surgical team during procedures under supervision and approved guidelines
Maintaining accurate departmental documentation and participating in training activities
Ensuring safe handling of patients, equipment, and materials at all times
About you:
We are seeking a motivated and reliable team player who is committed to patient safety and high-quality care.
To Succeed In This Role, You Will Demonstrate
Understanding of safe patient handling and willingness to complete competency training
Knowledge of or ability to acquire endoscopy processes and relevant health procedures
Strong teamwork and communication skills within a multidisciplinary environment
Ability to maintain high standards of personal hygiene, infection control, and workplace safety
Flexibility, problem-solving skills, and resilience in a busy clinical setting
Commitment to Metro South Health's values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement, and Excellence
What We Can Offer You
We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About us:
The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.
We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.
QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are better together .
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