Patient Services Assistant
- Classification
- Occupation
- Skill level
- 4
- Major group
- Community and Personal Service Workers
Classification
- Major group
- 4Community and Personal Service Workers
- Sub-major group
- 44Health Support Workers and Assistants
- Minor group
- 442Patient and Health Care Assistants
Description
Assists with the provision of care to patients in a hospital by ensuring wards are neat and tidy, lifting and turning patients, transporting them in wheelchairs or on movable beds, and providing direct care and support.
Alternative titles
- Hospital Orderly
- Orderly
- Patient Support Assistant
- Theatre Orderly
- Wardsperson
Unit group
4425 · Patient Care and Patient Services AssistantsDescription
Provide general assistance and personal care services to patients in hospitals and health care facilities.
Skill level
Australia
4
Occupation skill level 4
Tasks
Tasks include
- Transports patients in wheelchairs or mobile beds
- Provides safe patient handling and positioning in beds and transfers to and from beds
- Undertakes general duties, ensuring hospital wards are clean, orderly and sanitised, maintaining infection control protocols
- Provides direct care and support to patients, assisting with their personal needs such as showering and dressing
- Stocks and replenishes supplies of medical equipment, and transfers items between departments or wards
- Assists with the preparation and serving of patients' meals and beverages
Occupations in this unit group
Sources
- www.abs.gov.au/statistics/classifications/osca-occupation-standard-classification-australia/2024-version-1-0/browse-classification/4/44/442/4425
- www.abs.gov.au/statistics/classifications/osca-occupation-standard-classification-australia/2024-version-1-0/data-downloads/OSCA%20Category%20Descriptions.xlsx
