Administrative Assistant

Job Requisition ID: 2147- Legal Entity: Monash Health- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168- Employment Type: Part Time Fixed Term- Posting Date: 26 Nov 2024

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**Administrative Assistant, Pathway To Good Health (PTGH) - EFT 0.2 for a period of two years from date of commencement**

There is an exciting opportunity for a proficient Administrative Assistant to be part of the Victorian Government’s Pathway To Good Health initiative, providing health assessment and care management plans for children entering statutory care settings.

**About the Monash Health Developmental and Community Paediatric Unit**

The Developmental and Community Paediatrics Unit within the Monash Children’s Hospital provides outpatient multidisciplinary assessment of children with complex developmental and behavioural presentations onsite at Monash Children’s Hospital and in community settings. This Unit currently delivers the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Connect (FASDConnect) program and in the New Year will lead the Pathway to Good Health (PTGH) initiative for Southern Melbourne area (Greater Dandenong, Cardinia and Casey LGAs).

**About the Pathway To Good Health (PTGH) Program**

The Southern Melbourne PTGH program is a new partnership between the Monash Health Developmental and Community Paediatric Unit and the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing. As one of the seventeen PTGH services statewide, it will facilitate health screening, assessment, referral and health planning for children in care. The service also seeks to improve system integration between health and child protection systems and ensure that children are linked with the right intervention service to support continuity of care.

**About the Role**

The role encompasses a broad range of administrative activities including administration of medical records, administration of meetings and liaising with families and professionals to ensure timely response to enquiries. The Administrative Assistant plays a key role in enabling the team’s activities, resolving administrative issues and proactively working to optimise systems and processes. The Administrative Assistant is also responsible for maintaining the Pathway To Good Health database, ensuring patient information and clinical activity reporting is up-to-date, thereby enabling timely and accurate reporting to the Department of Health.

**About You**:

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- A problem solver who is adaptable and detail oriented
- Reliable and an autonomous worker
- Experience in data entry and general administration

**What We Offer**:

- Opportunity to work with a passionate and enthusiastic highly specialised multidisciplinary team, to deliver a new statewide project
- Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your skills & knowledge base
- Avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
- Mentorship & career guidance
- A supportive learning environment

**Position Description can be **found here**

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

**How to Apply**

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.

**Applications close 10th December, 2024.