CSSD Team Leader | Brisbane QLD | Full Time
- Coordinate day-to-day CSSD operations and ensure compliance with service standards.
- Supervise and coach CSSD Technicians and Assistants while managing staff rosters.
- Liaise with clinical departments regarding instrument availability and service requirements.
Job Title: CSSD Team Leader
Location: Brisbane, QLD
Type: Full-Time, Permanent role
Salary: $40.34 to $41.92/hr + super + salary packaging
Recruiter: Carejobz Perioperative Recruitment Specialists
The team at Carejobz Perioperative Specialists are recruiting for a hospital in Brisbane. We are looking for an experienced CSSD Team Leader to coordinate day-to-day sterilisation and reprocessing across a busy theatre complex, reporting to a newly created Surgical Support Services Manager role.
In this role, you will:
- Coordinate day-to-day CSSD operations, ensuring instrument reprocessing is completed within required timeframes and service standards
- Hold technical and clinical governance for sterilisation, disinfection and instrument reprocessing practices
- Prepare and maintain rosters, allocate staff and workload, and provide day-to-day supervision and coaching to CSSD Technicians and Assistants
- Coordinate quality assurance activities, audits and documentation, and support continuous improvement
- Liaise with operating theatres and clinical departments on instrument availability and service requirements
What You Will Bring
- Certificate III in Sterilisation Services, with Certificate IV held or a willingness to obtain it within an agreed timeframe
- Minimum 2 years' experience as a CSSD Sterilisation Technician
- Previous experience in a senior CSSD technician, coordinator or Team Leader role
- Current National Police Check, or ability to obtain and maintain one
- Full Australian working rights required
Desirable, not essential:
- Certificate IV in Leadership and Management or equivalent supervisory qualification
- Qualification in Training and Assessment
Why You Will Want to Know More
- Salary packaging
- Discounted private health insurance and reduced excess on private admissions
- 12 weeks paid parental leave, 2 weeks paid partner leave
- Up to $15,000 professional development support plus paid study leave
- Free onsite gym, free annual flu vaccinations, discounted parking
- Employee Assistance Program, 3 free counselling sessions, extends to family
If this sounds like the kind of theatre opportunity you have been waiting for, we would love to speak with you.
Apply in confidence through this link: ***************************************************************************** or Paul will be happy to talk you through the opportunity, answer your questions honestly, and help you decide whether it feels like the right next step for you.
About Carejobz
At Carejobz, Paul and Kate have been recruiting perioperative professionals across Australia and New Zealand since 2015. Over that time, they have become trusted recruitment partners to leading hospitals and day surgeries, supporting nurses and employers with warmth, discretion and genuine sector knowledge.
Read what jobseekers and employers say about working with Carejobz at ********.au/recruiters/agencies/carejobz-pty-ltd
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