Utility Worker

​Req ID: 215374
Location: Central Zone, Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII
Department: OPCZ PERI Medical Device Reprocess HI
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
NSGEU Support Position
Posting Closing Date: 2-Feb-26

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

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Reporting to the Manager and Supervisor of the Sterile Processing Department, the Utility Worker supports the efficient operation of the department. Duties include pick-ups of soiled items from patient care areas, deliveries of clean items to patient care areas, unloading washers, drying patient care items and distributing decontaminated OR instrumentation within the department, documentation of work, and interacting with patient care areas.

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Grade XII with excellent reading and writing skills
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, physically demanding atmosphere
• Recent experience handling blood and body fluids and knowledge of routine practices
• Previous experience and theoretical knowledge of proper method of working in an area of decontamination and sterilization of patient care items
• WHIMS Certification
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
• Successful candidate required to take and successfully pass a functional assessment to determine the physical capabilities to do the job.
• Physical Demands: Repetitive bending, repetitive lifting and carrying up to a maximum of 30 pounds, repetitive pushing and pulling carts. Constant standing and walking. Exposure to chemicals, blood and body fluids and extreme heat and humidity.

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

• Permanent Full-time; 75 Hours Bi-weekly
• Shifts include days, evenings, overnights, weekend and holidays
• Travel to various sites may be required
• A skill test will be included as part of the selection process

$ $23.36 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Some opportunities may be eligible for our Employee Referral Program. If a Nova Scotia Health employee refers a candidate who is not working for the organization and the candidate is hired, the employee who made the referral may be eligible to earn up to $1000.

​This is a Support bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.

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