Cleaning Officer - Environmental Cleaning Service | Casual

Closes: 08 September 2026

Classification: Cleaning Services Officer 2
Salary: $73,391 - $77,358 plus superannuation
Position No: C14498, Several - 02RKI
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 26 August 2026
Contact Officer: Kevin O’Kelly on Kevin.O’Kelly@act.gov.au or 0403 264 683

What can we offer you:

• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.
• Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
• Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.

About the Role:

Do you take pride in creating clean, safe, and welcoming environments? Are you a committed to maintain clean, safe, and hygienic environments? A team player with a strong focus on safety and quality? If you answered yes, we’d love to hear from you.

In this role, you will deliver high-quality cleaning services across clinical, non-clinical, and public areas, ensuring exceptional standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and presentation in line with CHS policies, infection prevention and control requirements, and National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards. You will safely operate and maintain cleaning equipment and machinery, comply with WHS and chemical safety requirements, and proactively identify, report, and help resolve hazards, defects, and safety issues. Working within established procedures and timeframes, you will play an important role in creating a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for patients, visitors, and staff.

These roles will be part of a casual relief pool delivering staffing coverage across Canberra Hospital Campus and Community Health Care sites 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Roles may be available for cleaning duties within CHS facilities or outside in the external areas of CHS facilities.

Note: Successful applicants will be required to attend and successfully complete Nationally Accredited NAT11084 Asbestos Awareness Training and NAT10830 Silica Awareness Training in Crystalline Silica Exposure Prevention within one month of commencement.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
• Current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.

Note: There are several casual positions available. The full-time salary noted above will be paid pro rata for casual hours.

For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.

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Career interest categories:

Environmental Care and Sustainability
Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services
Trades, Maintenance and Horticulture