Executive Assistant

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 891925
**Location**: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Ongoing
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Division of Paediatric Medicine, North Adelaide (5006)**
- **Salary/Classification - ASO3 - Administrative Services Officer L3 - $** **67,589 to $72,033**:

- **Employment Full time - Ongoing Permanent**

**About the Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the **Paediatric Emergency Department** team as an** Executive Assistant,**where you will be responsible for:

- Providing a high level of administrative support to the departments Medical Unit Head & Nursing Service Director, Consultants, and other senior medical staff in the department.
- Liaising with Medical Unit Head and Nursing Service Director frequently to assist them with achieving their role, by assisting them with coordinating their diary appointments, arranging travel and accommodation, intercepting, receiving and redirecting telephone calls and unexpected events on their behalf as appropriate.
- Contributing to the provision of effective patient care management by maintaining accurate records, booking lists and other details.
- Developing, implementing, and maintaining effective and confidential office management practices, procedures, and standards in relation to the provision of personal assistant level administrative support services to the Unit Heads, undertaking responsibility for the effective and efficient management of a comprehensive correspondence and records management service negotiating priorities and work required to achieve team goals.
- Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with Hospital Executive Staff, Divisional Executive, other Divisional Directors, staff of various external organisations and professional associations, and clients from the private and public sector.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Proven experience in a similar role, highlighting sound organisational skills and the ability to prioritise varying and conflicting workloads.
- Proven ability to proactively identify problems and issues and to exercise initiative/sound judgement in formulating and implementing solutions and actions.
- Proven ability to work with a high degree of independence, to determine priorities and to anticipate the requirements of Executive Level Managers.
- Experience in providing high level support for meetings/functions.
- Experience in the preparation of agendas, minutes, letters and drafting correspondence and proof reading.

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

**About Us**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

- specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
- state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
- community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
- specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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**Special Conditions**

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

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**Application Instructions**

**Other Important Information**

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexib