Service Assistant, Women's Unit

Sinai Health; Toronto; On-site; CAD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Sinai Health's Mount Sinai Hospital seeks an experienced Service Assistant for the Women’s Unit. You will support cleanliness, instrument handling, linen coordination, and transport within a busy hospital environment.

The role emphasizes teamwork, physical stamina, and reliable attendance, with responsibilities spanning cleaning, sterilization prep, dietary and supply deliveries, and assisting with patient records and samples as required. This position is on site at Mount Sinai.

Qualifications

• Successful completion of a high school diploma.

Responsibilities

• Clean instruments, patient equipment, exam beds, stretchers, and fridges.
• Rinse and scan instruments and trays to send to central sterilization.
• Wrap and pouch instruments to send to central sterilizing.
• Pickup linen carts, fold and distribute clean linen, ensure adequate supplies of linen, collect soiled linen from all units, and replace bags in linen hampers.
• Stock individual clinic rooms with linen, medical and surgical supplies.
• Distribute mail.
• Ensure cleanliness of bathrooms and top-up supplies as required.
• Assist with transporting equipment, nutritional supplies, files and records to and from the main hospital.
• Receive supplies via courier for medical-surgical carts and direct orders, and distribute to the ordering office.
• Vacuum US filters and ceiling vents as required.
• High level disinfection of ultrasound probe.
• Collect and deliver patient specimens.
• Pickup medications from Mount Sinai Hospital pharmacy as required.
• Environmental room turnover and terminal clean.
• Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required

Skills

Teamwork

Physical stamina

Interpersonal skills

Verbal & written communication

Adaptability

Attendance

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Sinai Health is looking for an experienced Service Assistant, Women's Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital.

In this role you will:

• Cleaninstruments, patient equipment, exam beds, stretchers, and fridges


• Rinseand scaninstruments and trays to send to central sterilization


• Wrapand pouchinstruments to send to central sterilizing


• Pickup linen carts, foldand distributeclean linen, ensureadequate supplies of linen, collectsoiled linen from all units, and replacebags in linen hampers


• Stockindividual clinic rooms with linen, medical and surgical supplies


• Distributemail


• Ensurecleanliness of bathrooms and top-up supplies as required


• Assistwith transporting equipment, nutritional supplies, files and records to and from the main hospital


• Receivesupplies via courier for medical-surgical carts and direct orders, and distributes to the ordering office


• VacuumUS filters and ceiling vents as required


• High level disinfection of ultrasound probe


• Collectand delivers patient specimen


• Pickup medications from Mount Sinai Hospitalpharmacy as required


• Environmental room turnover and terminal clean


• Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required

Job Requirements:

Mandatory

• Successful completion of a high school diploma

Preferred

• Certification in Central Sterilization Course (CSAO)


• 1 year of experience in a housekeeping role

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to take direction and work co-operatively in a fast paced team environment


• Ability to meet the physical demands of the position in order to perform the essential duties of the job which requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, and lifting of patients/equipment for extended periods of time


• Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with patients/families/co-workers


• Demonstrated proficiency in communication skills, both verbal and written


• Ability to be flexible/adaptable in quickly changing work environment


• Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance history