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Laundry Assistant

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Laundry assistants are responsible for ensuring that hospitals have clean, sterile laundry, including bed sheets, blankets, hospital garments and towels.

Will be undertaking manual handling tasks.


Role Description:

  • Laundry assistants are responsible for ensuring that hospitals have clean, sterile laundry, including bed sheets, blankets, hospital garments and towels. They perform manual labour and operate machinery to sort, clean, fold, iron, package and deliver all linen from hospitals and aged care facilities.

Where you might work:

  • Laundry assistants work in hospitals and aged care facilities.

Personal attributes:

  • This role will require a reasonable level of physical fitness as you will be undertaking manual handling tasks. Because you will be working with machinery, you should have close attention to detail to maintain workplace safety standards.

Salary:

  • Middle of the range salary in Australia: $41,340 before taxes
    (Reference: www.joboutlook.gov.au)

Employment rates:

  • 11,00 job openings over 5 years in Australia (that’s about 2,200 a year!)
    (Reference: ABS Labour Force Survey, 2018.)

Industry growth:

  • Laundry Workers fell over the past 5 years in Australia and is expected to grow over the next 5 years: from 13,200 in 2018 to 13,800 by 2023.
    (Reference: ABS Labour Force Survey, 2018.)