Cleaning Officer - Environmental Cleaning Service

Employment Type: Casual
Classification: Cleaning Services Officer 2 (PN C14498, C14499, C14500, C14501, C14502, several)
Salary: $73,391 - $77,358 (Plus 12.5% Super)
Location: Canberra Hospital campus and community-based facilities
Section: Environmental Cleaning Service
Closing Date: 8th September 2026
 

What can we offer you: 

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:

To Apply: 

Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page Response to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.

***Please note applications submitted via an agency will not be accepted for this position***

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.

If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Kevin O’Kelly at 0403 264 *** or at Kevin.O’*****@act.gov.au. 

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