Role title:Cleaning Team Member
Role type:Casual
Department and location:Environmental Services department, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney
Salary:$36.39 per hour (including casual loading) + Super + Salary Packaging
Welcome to St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney, Sydney’s premier inner-city private hospital
Join a team built on a proud legacy of world-class care, true compassion, and deep community roots.
Founded in 1857 by the Sisters of Charity and powered today by St Vincent’s Health Australia, the Sisters' legacy of compassionate service is our living heartbeat. As a world-class tertiary facility, we are at the forefront of medical innovation, featuring high-acuity interventional suites, next-gen surgical robotics for complex specialties, and cutting-edge oncology backed by the renowned Kinghorn Cancer Centre. Here, you will work alongside global leaders and access funded postgraduate pathways to accelerate your career.
Located in the vibrant heart of Darlinghurst, we are positioned just minutes from Kings Cross station, with direct, high-frequency bus connections from the east, and seamless links from Gadigal and Museum stations right to our doorstep.
Read on to explore this exciting role and the fantastic perks waiting for you here.
About the role
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced housekeeping cleaner to join our Environmental Services department at the Darlinghurst Campus consisting of Private & Public Hospital, The Sacred Heart Health Service and The St Vincent’s Clinic.
Pay and benefits for this role
$36.39 per hour including 25% casual loading
Plus superannuation
Plus salary packaging (up to $15,900/year tax‑free)
Plus other employee benefits, discounts, and rewards
You will help keep our hospital clean, safe, and comfortable for patients, visitors, and staff. Training will be provided in hospital cleaning and infection control so you can clean rooms and public areas to a high standard.
This job includes a 7‑day rotating rosterwith the following shift start times:
Morning Shift:starting between 6:00am and 8:30am
Evening Shift: starting between 3:00pm and 6:00pm
Please tell us which shift you prefer when you apply.
About you
As an outstanding housekeeping cleaner, you are a master at providing cleaning services with extremely attention to detail.
Your skills will include:
Has experience in cleaning (hospital or hotel experience is helpful)
Works well in a team or independently
Is reliable, punctual, hardworking, and well presented
Has good communication and people skills
Can plan work and manage time well
Can work weekdays, weekends, public holidays, mornings, and afternoons
Can use floor machines (polishers/scrubbers) — helpful but not required
What we can offer you
Exceptional Rewards:Competitive pay and not-for-profit salary packaging to maximise your income
For-Purpose Impact:Be part of a not-for-profit where surplus is reinvested into research & community care
World-Class Collaborate with global leaders across more than 100 medical specialties and 60 service areas
Surgical Innovation:Work with eminent surgeons using next-gen robotics in cardiac, neuro & orthopaedic
Premium Care:Deliver deeply personalised, patient-centred care in a 100% private-room en-suite facility
Safe Staffing:Work with peace of mind under an historic EA delivering mandated nurse-to-patient ratios
Professional Growth:Accelerate your career with clinical education programs & funded postgrad pathways
Health & Wellbeing:Fitness Passport, discounted private health, & cultural recognitions and celebrations
Sponsorship / work rights for Australia
Please note, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. For this role you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or have an Australia visa that grants you the work rights necessary for the role.
Equal opportunity
We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.
As part of our commitment to reconciliation, we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply and join us in delivering care that heals body, mind, spirit and community.
How to apply
The closing date for applications is 5 September 2026 Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.
Please submit your resume. A cover letter is welcome but not required.
Respectfully, this role is not open to recruitment agencies.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity, please contact Abhinay Gurung- Environmental Services Coordinator for a confidential discussion via abhinay.gurung@svha.org.au
5 September 2026 11:59pm
At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
For further information, visit https /www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au
View Reconciliation Action Plan
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
