Administrative Officer

**Date**:11 Sep 2024

**Location**: 50 Flemington Rd, AU

**Company**:theroyalch

**The Hospital**:
The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here.

**About The Role**:
You will be responsible for providing administrative support to facilitate recruitment/onboarding, rostering and day-to-day coordination and management of junior medical staff (JMS) at RCH and across secondment site partners.

**What You’ll Achieve**:

- Input personnel record data aligned to bulk recruitment and onboarding of junior medical staff.
- Oversee purchase orders and invoice processing.
- Prepare meeting agenda and minutes as directed by the Operational Manager and/or Director Medical Workforce - Strategy and Operations.

Classification for this position will range from AO21 - AO25 classification codes (base salary $65,442 to $73,002 per annum, plus superannuation)

**Your Skills and Experience**:

- Demonstrated experience working as an administrative officer or lead within a team-based setting
- Demonstrated ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively, as required by the task
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders, and provide a strong customer service focus
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise own and team-level workloads, and achieve key deliverables within specified timelines
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products

If this sounds like you, click **here** to view the position description.

**About The Department**:
The Medical Workforce Unit oversees the centralised recruitment, onboarding and coordination of junior medical staff (JMS)/paediatric trainees, working both on-site at RCH and rotating through various external Victorian secondment sites.

**What We Offer**:

- Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay
- Employee Assistance Program

**Other Requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application Process**

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.

**Why work at the RCH?**

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption.