CSSD Team Leader | Brisbane QLD | Full Time
Updated: Oct 7
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.
The role at a glance
Employment type: Permanent Full Time
Remuneration: $40.34 to $41.92/hr + super + salary packaging
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: https://carejobz.app.loxo.co/job/MzkxNTktM3pwemMxbnJ5eWZhdzc0OA==, or email your CV to kate@carejobz.com in the first instance. Kate 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.
Carejobz never asks candidates for money to apply for or start a job.
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. They understand the realities of theatre nursing, from the importance of team culture and safe staffing to the specialist skills required across anaesthetics, recovery, scrub and scout. When you speak with Carejobz, you are dealing with people who know the perioperative world, respect your experience, and will give you honest guidance at every stage.
Read what jobseekers and employers say about working with Carejobz at seek.com.au/recruiters/agencies/carejobz-pty-ltd
