Prosthetic Officer | The Wesley Hospital
Employment Term: Permanent Part Time (3 days/ week - 0.6 FTE)
Location: Auchenflower, just 5 mins from Toowong Shopping Village and 10 mins from Brisbane City
Remuneration: $37.71 - $39.19/ hr + 12% Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging
Make a meaningful difference with The Wesley Hospital
We’re looking for someone who wants to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts. To build meaningful relationships and make a difference in the lives of others.
An integral part of our team at The Wesley Hospital as a Prosthetics Officer, you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about.
Your part in The Wesley Hospital team

Working closely with Level 2 Nurses, other Scrub Scout Nurses and Specialists will ensure the provision of appropriate Surgical Prosthetics, with accurate recording of prosthetics used at the point of care, ensuring the ability to track individually to patients and accurate billing to health funds.

• The position will take responsibility for prosthetics and consignment stock in the Clinical Store Rooms
• ordering and stock management
• The role will use their knowledge from working in a Perioperative environment to understand the processes of how prosthetics are recorded and processed, including providing education to all related Nursing staff to increase awareness and importance of recording prosthetics at point of care (in theatre).
• The position will also work as part of a multi-disciplinary team involving clinical and non-clinical staff in the preparation for Hospital and UCH Group wide projects such as; Surginet and the Digital Medical Record.
• The position will liaise closely with Corporate Service functions such as; the Supply Department , Manager of Patient Administration to ensure the accurate billing of all appropriate prosthesis is undertaken, and the Management Accountant and Director Corporate Services. It will also work with surgical companies to manage consignment stock and transfer responsibility of the cost of expired stock to the supplier.

• The position will also use their specialist knowledge to support the Central Sterilising Services Department in the process of managing loan sets

  What makes a difference for us?

• Experience with managing Prosthetics and Consignment stock highly desirable

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently as required
• Ability to plan and coordinator patient care requiring prosthetics
• Excellent time management skills
• Intermediate to Advanced computer skills in Word and Excel as a minimum
• Proven ability to prioritise and have attention to detail

What makes a difference for you?

The Wesley Hospital is one of Australia’s iconic and largest private not-for-profit hospitals, caring for you for life. From the heart of Brisbane more than 800 Visiting Medical Practitioners and 2,000 staff deliver personalised care through life’s journey for generations of Queenslanders.

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
• Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum
• Subsidised On-Site Parking
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, a wellbeing program and employee assistance program
• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
• Professional development, through Graduate Certificates, skills development courses, bursaries, grants and partnerships with leading Universities (Hospitals).
• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference.

The Wesley Hospital is proudly part of the UnitingCare family, we’d love you to be too.
At the Wesley Hospital, we offer comprehensive care across a wide range of acute tertiary-level medical and surgical services with a particular focus on cancer care, cardiac care, women’s and children’s care, and complex surgical care. This includes the busiest robotic surgery program and the first Robotic Surgery Centre of Excellence accredited in Australia.
Joining the Wesley Hospital, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.
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Diversity & Inclusion
Our approach is simple –everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position. Learn more about Diversity & Inclusion at UnitingCare: https://www.unitingcareqld.com.au/about-us/who-we-are/diversity-and-inclusion
Safe workplace
We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety

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