About this role
Transport patients around a hospital, provide patient care and ensure wards are tidy.
What you might do day-to-day in this job
Typical tasks for a Hospital Orderly include:
- assist patients with their personal needs such as showering, dressing and eating
- assist patients with their mobility and communication needs
- move patients around the facility by pushing them in wheelchairs or in mobile beds
- move equipment around the facility
- perform manual support tasks at the direction of medical staff
- ensure wards are clean and neat and tidy.
Courses that can lead to a career as a Hospital Orderly
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Train for a role in health care. Learn to assist with patient care, transport and daily clinical tasks.
- Traineeship
- On-the-job training
- 1 year
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available
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- Traineeship
- On-the-job training
- 2 years
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available
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Certificate II in Community Services
CHC22015
Get started in community services. Learn to support people and work safely in care and support roles.
- 6 months – 1 year
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available