Household Assistant

**Household Assistant (Fixed Term and Casual positions)**:
at Braemar Hospital

Housekeeping & Laundry - Hamilton Lake, Waikato 3204, New Zealand - Part-time

Description

**About the job**
- 70 hours/fortnight, working rostered and rotating shifts. You must be able to work early mornings, evenings, nights, weekends and school holidays.
- Fantastic staff benefits including competitive remuneration (living wage employer), morning and afternoon tea, and where your wellness is our priority.
- Supportive team environment.
- This role is a fixed term cover until March 2026, with the possibly of becoming permanent should a vacancy arise.
- Casual positions are also available.

**About Us**

Braemar Hospital is a prestigious private surgical hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand, dedicated to supporting nearly 200 credentialed specialists, across nine operating theatres and two endoscopy suites, and providing a full range of surgical specialties and medical procedures.

Our hospital exists, quite simply, to make lives better. We know the right experience at Braemar Hospital can improve how patients and their whānau feel, and how they live, even when there’s a long journey to full recovery. To see patients, leave Braemar with a new lease on life makes our efforts worthwhile.

The service we deliver at Braemar Hospital, and the profit that generates, enables our owner, the Braemar Charitable Trust, to support our community to live better lives through funding surgeries, health-related academic scholarships, medical research, and other health-related initiatives across the Waikato.

Care and excellence are at our core. We are well-known for investing in highly sophisticated technology, equipment, and facilities to enable our highly skilled team to deliver quality, safe patient outcomes. We also invest heavily in developing a world-leading organisational culture to attract and retain the very best talent because we know the critical role our team play in surgical excellence.

**The Opportunity**

We are currently seeking a Household Assistant to join our small supportive team.

Working in the Housekeeping & Laundry Department, reporting to the Housekeeping & Laundry Manager, the Household Assistant is responsible for maintaining a high standard of cleanliness in all patient rooms, corridors, lounges, utility areas and theatre to the infection control standards. The Household Assistant may be requested to provide support in laundry on occasions.

Responsibilities include mopping, vacuuming, cleaning patient rooms and bathrooms, staff areas and public areas such as waiting rooms. The Housekeeping & Laundry Department operates seven days a week and you must be available to work a range of shifts including early mornings, evenings, nights, weekends and school holidays.

To be successful in this role you will:

- Have the ability to work independently to prescribed standards;
- Be able to maintain routine tasks related to our housekeeping policies and procedures;
- Have effective communication skills;
- Have a methodical and process-oriented approach;
- Be a team player and work well with others;
- Be self-motivated and able to work efficiently;
- Be committed to working fully rotating and rostered shifts including early mornings, evenings, nights, weekends and school holidays.

**Working for Us**

Choosing to work at Braemar Hospital means choosing to live the Braemar Way. Our ‘BCOMPassionate’ principles are our North Star, and we know when our people and culture line up behind the Braemar Way, we become unbeatable.

In addition to competitive remuneration, working with us provides you with access to a number of great benefits, including:

- We provide morning and afternoon tea daily, and we have delicious seasonal fruit delivered three times a week across the hospital;
- We heavily subsidise restaurant-quality meals which you can order for lunch and dinner;
- We have an annual summer shutdown where we close the hospital and ensure our whole team have some down time;
- Once you hit five years’ service at Braemar, we increase your annual holidays accrual to five weeks per year;
- We provide 10 days’ sick leave entitlement from the day you start to ensure you have plenty of leave to cover illness and injury;
- We offer access to our retail and experience discount platforms so you can access great local discounts;
- We provide a parental leave top-up benefit if you’re heading off on parental leave;
- We offer limited free parking on site, a secure bike storage shed, electric vehicle chargers, and we are on a main public transport bus route;
- We provide a pretty special Wellness initiative each year, and we offer our team free access to chnnl - the wellbeing app to support personal wellbeing;
- You’ll have access to a Financial Advisor to help support with your personal finances, free of charge;
- We offer Vitae support which includes confidential, professional support anytime you need it;
- We offer considerable space options