Communications Technical Officer

**Job no**: 900845
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Western
**Categories**: Emergency Services and Emergency Management, Technical
- **Salary: TGO2 / $75,240.00 - $79,880.00 p.a.**:

- **Full Time / Ongoing**:

- **5024 / Fulham Gardens**

**About Us**:
SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is South Australia’s provider of emergency ambulance transport, clinical care, and patient transport services.

We are committed to ensuring South Australia has access to the best possible emergency medical care, non-emergency transport, and rescue and retrieval services.
- Our Vision_: An innovative, patient focused, technology enabled, evidence driven, emergency response and health care ambulance service; achieved by exceptional people.
- Our Mission_: Providing emergency response and health care ambulance services within South Australia, designed and development around patient and community needs, enabling timely and equitable access for our patients to the most appropriate point of care.
- Our Purpose_: To ensure South Australia thrives by enabling access to emergency and non-emergency ambulance health care and alternative patient pathways while contributing to our state’s emergency preparedness and health response capability.

**Our Values**:
**_ PATIENT FOCUSED_**: We will put our patients and the safe and quality care we provide them first; in everything we do.

**_TEAMWORK_**_:_ We will work across SAAS, our health system, our partners, stakeholders and the community to achieve our goals.

**_ INTEGRITY AND HONESTY_**_:_ We accept and uphold the standards and expectations of our organisation and communities.

**_RESPECT AND COURTESY:_** We will always be respectful and courteous toward our patients, each other, and all those we work with.

**_COMMUNITY COLLABORATION_**: We value our role in the community, and we value the communities we serve.

**_CHANGE READY_**: We know our communities’ needs will evolve and we must adapt to meet them.

**_AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP:_** We will support leadership development for our people at every level.

This position is responsible for: completing in a timely and thorough manner, the installation, repair, maintenance, servicing and management of voice, paging and data communications equipment and other electronic equipment associated with the SA Ambulance Service.

**What We Offer**:

- Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment with a culture of inclusion and diversity.
- Giving back to the people of South Australia Play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
- We take care of you Access to a range of staff and wellness support programs

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Maintain and repair communication equipment**:

- **Ensure communication equipment such as fleet radios, GRN pagers, MDTs, AVL, GPS equipment, mobile and satellite telephones, and hospital radio consoles are serviceable and maintained according to manufacturers' and SA Ambulance specifications.**:

- **Assess and rectify faults in communication equipment in a timely manner.**

**Conduct vehicle installations and inspections**:

- **Assist with vehicle installations as required.**:

- **Conduct vehicle installation inspections as per SAAS specifications and requirements, completing appropriate documentation.**

**Install and maintain equipment in SA Ambulance buildings**:

- **Carry out installation and maintenance of equipment in SA Ambulance buildings to professional standards.**:

- **Design, build, and document minor in-house projects.**

**Manage equipment inventory and stock**:

- **Ensure spare equipment is maintained and de-installed equipment is checked, updated, and returned to stock for reuse.**:

- **Maintain adequate stock levels of portable equipment batteries, electronic components, and consumables.**:

- **Maintain and calibrate test equipment according to manufacturers' specifications.**

**Record and report equipment data**:

- **Maintain accurate records of equipment databases, network transactions, and equipment sent off-site for repair.**:

- **Maintain records of telephone moves and changes, and produce monthly telephone call accounting reports.**:

- **Generate ad-hoc telephone reporting as required.**

**Ensure compliance with policies and procedures**:

- **Maintain confidentiality in accordance with confidentiality and privacy policies.**:

- **Recognize that all intellectual property created during employment remains the property of SAAS.**:

- **Use SAAS equipment and property in accordance with policies, secure and maintain them during employment, and return upon cessation of employment.**

**Application Information**:

- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination