Nursing Assistant - Newcastle
Date: 2 Jul 2025
Search suburb or city: Broadmeadow, NSW, AU, 2292

Company: Australian Red Cross Lifeblood

• Permanent Part-Time opportunity - 46.00 hours per fortnight (7 shifts per fortnight)
• Varied shifts across a rotating roster - Monday to Sunday
• Located at Newcastle Donor Centre & Donor Mobile Unit, New South Wales
• Salary starting from $32.31 per hour + Penalties (if applicable) + Super + Salary Packaging and more
• Full availability to assist with operational requirements and planning

Besides having a real passion to deliver an exceptional donor experience, you’ll need to be able to:

• Be comfortable with needles and blood/biological materials
• Occasionally lift between 9-22.7kgs
• Support and foster a fantastic team culture
• Frequently stand, walk and bend to set up and pack down machines and blood products
• Be flexible to work varied shifts on a fortnightly rotating roster from Monday to Sunday, including weekends and afternoon shifts
• Flexible availability across 7 days
• Drivers license and capacity to drive to Donor Mobile Uni

Step into a rewarding role as a Nursing Assistant where you will bring excellent customer-facing skills and a genuine passion to deliver an exceptional service to our donors.
You will play a key role in supporting our donors through their donation process. Full training is provided so, along with the above, all you need is the curiosity and motivation to learn the process of collecting blood and biological product.

A day in the centre could see you:

• Greet and interview potential donors to assess their eligibility and suitability to donate
• Create a donor experience they’ll love—and want to come back Complete routine blood pressure and haemoglobin tests
• Set up machines and collections equipment
• Insert and remove needles safely to collect whole blood, plasma, and platelets
• Monitor donors post-donation and assist them with rebooking their next donation
• Work collaboratively to achieve collection targets

No prior experience in blood collection is needed, our paid and flexible self-paced training program has a balance between on-the-job practice, and online class schedules to ensure that you are well supported.

Besides having a real passion to deliver an exceptional donor experience, you’ll need to be able to:

• Be comfortable with needles and blood/biological materials
• Occasionally lift between 9-22.7kgs
• Support and foster a fantastic team culture
• Frequently stand, walk and bend to set up and pack down machines and blood products
• Be flexible to work varied shifts on a fortnightly rotating roster from Monday to Sunday, including weekends and afternoon shifts
• Flexible availability across 7 days
• Drivers license and capacity to drive to Donor Mobile Unit