Administration Officer

SCC is seeking a friendly and efficient part-time Administration Officer to work across our Residential Aged Care Homes in beautiful Allora.

Overview

Southern Cross Care is looking to fill the role of a part-time Administration Officer to provide administrative support across our Allora Homestead and Allora Nursing Home in beautiful Allora.

What can Southern Cross Care Queensland offer you?

- Competitive pay rates with the benefit of Not-for-Profit salary sacrifice options to take home more
- Part time role, working minimum 46 hours/fortnight
- Opportunity to join a supportive purpose driven organisation
- Great staff culture
- Employee Assistance Program for employees and their families and support programs like Thrive (access up to 50% of your earned wages early)

Responsibilities

Working in this part-time role, you will provide a wide range of administrative support in the Homes to maintain financial, client and rostering systems as well as efficient and confidential administrative support to the Managers.

You will have excellent organisational skills, exceptional attention to detail and solid IT skills to ensure the home’s administrative processes are streamlined and effective. You’ll have great interpersonal skills and enjoy being the first person to greet visitors, families and loved ones to the Home; and be a go-to person for general enquiries.

A friendly sociable personality coupled with empathy and compassion for the elderly will make you a perfect fit for this client-centred “front of house” role.

Some of your duties will include but not be limited to:

- Assisting with new admissions to the home and preparing records for new residents
- Liaising with the Managers when vacancies occur to ascertain type of Resident required
- Maintaining relevant documentation (eg Resident lists) at the direction of the Manager
- Liaising with residents and their families to support the transition into care from an administrative perspective
- Coordinating and assisting manager with rostering as required
- Maintaining of various computer data bases
- Reception duties – face to face and over the phone
- Processing of invoices in preparation for payment and maintenance of petty cash
- Maintaining staff personal records including registrations and certificates
- Assisting in minute taking for committee meetings as required

Requirements

What will you bring to the role?

- Experience working in an administrative role within Aged Care or Health care setting (desired)
- Administrative and reception experience
- Understanding of staff rosters
- Excellent written, oral and numerical skills
- Problem solving skills and ability to prioritise tasks
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills with the ability to communicate with a diverse range of people
- High level information technology skills including working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications

About Us

Southern Cross Care (SCC) is a Catholic not-for-profit organisation established by the Knights of the Southern Cross, more than 40 years ago. They saw a need to provide compassionate care and inclusive service to some of the most vulnerable, the ageing population, in the community.

We are passionate about growing communities where best lives are lived, and serving the needs of our residents and clients with compassion and care is, as always, at the heart of what we do.

At SCC, we are just as focused on creating a culture where every person matters. Our culture program, Known & Loved, is unique to Southern Cross Care, enabling staff to build genuine community connections with each other and those we serve.

If you are an Administration Officer ready to make a difference and help us grow communities where best lives are lived, then we'd love to hear from you.

Please note that all employment offers will be conditional upon a satisfactory criminal history screen, the right to work in Australia and maintaining an up-to-date flu vaccination status.

Southern Cross Care is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate the diversity across our entire team and welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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