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Danger pay: How you can earn $85K working in hotel quarantine escorting guests and checking temperatures of returned travellers

The Victorian Government is offering $85,000 salaries for people to work at Covid-19 quarantine hotels, escorting travellers from the airport to their accommodation.

The job ad was posted by the Department of Justice and Community Safety as  Melbourne prepares to accept international flights from December 7. 

There will be 1,120 people arriving in Victoria every week, meaning  around 160 travellers will be put into hotel quarantine each day. 

According to the job description, workers will transport travellers from the airport to the hotels, and any other approved sites.

The Victorian Government is offering $85,000 salaries for people to work in hotel quarantine and help escort guests and check their temperatures for signs of Covid-19 (pictured, staff inside the Stamford Hotel in Melbourne earlier this year)

The Victorian Government is offering $85,000 salaries for people to work in hotel quarantine and help escort guests and check their temperatures for signs of Covid-19 (pictured, staff inside the Stamford Hotel in Melbourne earlier this year)

Around 1,120 people will be arriving in the state every week with roughly 160 travellers moving into hotel quarantine a day (pictured, guests outside the Stamford Hotel in Melbourne earlier this year)

Around 1,120 people will be arriving in the state every week with roughly 160 travellers moving into hotel quarantine a day (pictured, guests outside the Stamford Hotel in Melbourne earlier this year)

They will need to conduct temperature checks at admission and departure points and screen identification.

Workers will also be required to work 80 hours a fortnight: six 12-hour shifts and one eight-hour shift.

The contract can last up to 12 months and salaries begin at $69,917.

The job offer comes as an inquiry continues into the bungled hotel quarantine system that led to the second outbreak of the virus in the state, which triggered 18,000 new infections and 750 deaths.

Almost all those cases were traced back to hotel quarantine workers contracting the coronavirus and then carrying it back into the community.

To prevent a repeat, the Department of Justice and Community Safety has stated on the job description that workers will be required to wear protective equipment and receive Covid-19 tests on a regular basis. 

The Department said it had 'strengthened infection prevention and control, oversight and professional standards across the COVID-19 accommodation program'.

Victoria's chief testing commander Jeroen Weimar told The Age hotel quarantine staff would be given daily saliva and swab tests.

Overseas travellers arrive at the Crown Promenade Hotel in Melbourne in March

Overseas travellers arrive at the Crown Promenade Hotel in Melbourne in March

According to the job description, workers will be responsible for escorting returned travellers from the airport to their accommodation, and to any approved sites

According to the job description, workers will be responsible for escorting returned travellers from the airport to their accommodation, and to any approved sites

'The testing is there to support front-line ,' he said. 

'If it escapes from hotel quarantine, it will go the front-line workers first, and they're the ones we need to protect and detect at a very early point. It will be mission critical to get it right.' 

University of Melbourne epidemiologist Professor Tony Blakely said testing staff at least once a week would reduce the risk of spreading infection between 50 and 80 per cent.

'You can't do any better than that,' he said.

Daily Mail Australia contacted the Department of Justice and Community Safety for comment. 

To prevent a repeat, the Department of Justice and Community Safety has stated on the job description that workers will be required to wear protective equipment and receive Covid-19 tests on a regular basis (pictured, nurse delivers Covid-19 nasal swab)

To prevent a repeat, the Department of Justice and Community Safety has stated on the job description that workers will be required to wear protective equipment and receive Covid-19 tests on a regular basis (pictured, nurse delivers Covid-19 nasal swab)

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