Ward Clerk

We are seeking for a **Theatre** **Ward Clerk** to join our team at **Wollongong Private Hospital on a Part-time Permanent basis.**

**About the Role**

As a Ward Clerk, you are responsible for providing professional support and assistance to all customers within the Perioperative departments and visitors.

Key responsibilities of this job include:

- Work alongside multidisciplinary medical staff, colleagues, and visitors to ensure outstanding customer service
- Managing incoming and outgoing calls to the ward promptly and courteously
- Meet deadlines with data entry
- Organise repairs and replacements of specialised equipment
- Maintain pathology stock
- Ordering of prosthesis
- Ordering of stationary items and distribution
- Scanning of theatre sheets
- Archiving of medical records
- Minute taking
- Liaising with multiple doctors surgeries (eg obtain MBS item numbers)
- Entering theatre data into patient admission system

**About You**

To succeed in this role, you will be an effective communicator with high-level interpersonal skills and a passion for customer-focused service in line with Ramsay's core values. You will have exceptional time management skills, meet deadlines within expected timeframes and have the ability to manage conflicting priorities. You will also have the ability to work within a team and independently as required.

**You will also demonstrate;**
- Proven organisational skills and a high degree of attention to detail and accuracy
- Previous experience in medical administration is desirable
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft computer skills
- Experience with patient management systems will be highly regarded
- To be able to proactivity take direction
- Flexibility
- Punctual and reliable

**Why Ramsay?**
- Flexible work practices to best match your work/life balance
- Employee assistance program
- Industry discounts across private health insurance, retail services, financial services and more.

**About the Organisation**

The 151 bed private hospital operated by Australia's largest private hospital operator, Ramsay Health Care, is set in the heart of Wollongong's Medical Precinct adjacent to the Wollongong Public Hospital. It will feature state of the art equipment, facilities and patient services setting a benchmark for healthcare facilities in the Illawarra. Wollongong Private Hospital provides all major services including an intensive care unit, nine operating theatres, a cardiac catheter laboratory and a day oncology unit. It offers the full range of medical, surgical and maternity services. Surgical specialities include orthopaedics, interventional cardiology, ophthalmology, ENT, bariatric, head and neck, neurosurgical, gynaecological, urology, colorectal, upper GI, general, vascular and plastics.

The Hospital is operated by Ramsay Health Care, a global operator of private hospitals and primary care clinics with 73 Australian sites employing over 30,000 people. Ramsay focuses on maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety, being an employer of choice, and operating its business according to The Ramsay Way.

**How to Apply**

**Requirements**:
Everyone who joins Ramsay:

- Must be **vaccinated against Covid-19, **including a third dose if required under State health orders
- _Must provide a _**National Police** check conducted within the previous 12 months
- According to the role, Ramsay may require a **Working-With-Children** check and **proof of immunisation** against infectious diseases