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442532 · OSCA 2024

Patient Services Assistant

Classification
Occupation
Skill level
4

Classification

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 Assistants

Description

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

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