Cleaning Team Member

Job Description:

Role title: Cleaning Team Member
Role type: Casual
Department and location: Environmental Services department, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney
Salary: $36.39 per hour (including casual loading) + Super + Salary Packaging

Welcome to St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney, Sydney’s premier inner-city private hospital

Join a team built on a proud legacy of world-class care, true compassion, and deep community roots.

Founded in 1857 by the Sisters of Charity and powered today by St Vincent’s Health Australia, the Sisters' legacy of compassionate service is our living heartbeat. As a world-class tertiary facility, we are at the forefront of medical innovation, featuring high-acuity interventional suites, next-gen surgical robotics for complex specialties, and cutting-edge oncology backed by the renowned Kinghorn Cancer Centre. Here, you will work alongside global leaders and access funded postgraduate pathways to accelerate your career.

Located in the vibrant heart of Darlinghurst, we are positioned just minutes from Kings Cross station, with direct, high-frequency bus connections from the east, and seamless links from Gadigal and Museum stations right to our doorstep.

Read on to explore this exciting role and the fantastic perks waiting for you here.

About the role
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced housekeeping cleaner to join our Environmental Services department at the Darlinghurst Campus consisting of Private & Public Hospital, The Sacred Heart Health Service and The St Vincent’s Clinic.

Pay and benefits for this role

• $36.39 per hour including 25% casual loading

• Plus superannuation

• Plus salary packaging (up to $15,900/year tax‑free)

• Plus other employee benefits, discounts, and rewards

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You will help keep our hospital clean, safe, and comfortable for patients, visitors, and staff. Training will be provided in hospital cleaning and infection control so you can clean rooms and public areas to a high standard.

This job includes a 7‑day rotating roster with the following shift start times:

• Morning Shift: starting between 6:00am and 8:30am

• Evening Shift: starting between 3:00pm and 6:00pm

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Please tell us which shift you prefer when you apply.

About you
As an outstanding housekeeping cleaner, you are a master at providing cleaning services with extremely attention to detail.

Your skills will include:

• Has experience in cleaning (hospital or hotel experience is helpful)

• Works well in a team or independently

• Is reliable, punctual, hardworking, and well presented

• Has good communication and people skills

• Can plan work and manage time well

• Can work weekdays, weekends, public holidays, mornings, and afternoons

• Can use floor machines (polishers/scrubbers) — helpful but not required

What we can offer you

• Exceptional Rewards: Competitive pay and not-for-profit salary packaging to maximise your income

• For-Purpose Impact: Be part of a not-for-profit where surplus is reinvested into research & community care

• World-Class: Collaborate with global leaders across more than 100 medical specialties and 60 service areas

• Surgical Innovation: Work with eminent surgeons using next-gen robotics in cardiac, neuro & orthopaedic

• Premium Care: Deliver deeply personalised, patient-centred care in a 100% private-room en-suite facility

• Safe Staffing: Work with peace of mind under an historic EA delivering mandated nurse-to-patient ratios

• Professional Growth: Accelerate your career with clinical education programs & funded postgrad pathways

• Health & Wellbeing: Fitness Passport, discounted private health, & cultural recognitions and celebrations

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia
Please note, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. For this role you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or have an Australia visa that grants you the work rights necessary for the role.

Equal opportunity
We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

As part of our commitment to reconciliation, we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply and join us in delivering care that heals body, mind, spirit and community.

How to apply
The closing date for applications is 5 September 2026. Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.

Please submit your resume. A cover letter is welcome but not required.

Respectfully, this role is not open to recruitment agencies.

If you would like to discuss this opportunity, please contact Abhinay Gurung- Environmental Services Coordinator for a confidential discussion via [email protected]

Closing Date:

5 September 2026 11:59pm

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at [email protected]

View Reconciliation Action Plan

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