Funding Support Officer

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan, Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Communications, Marketing and Media, Finance, Health and Allied Health, Human Resources, Information Management, Procurement

Reference: 59895

**Working in Healthcare has never been more important or meaningful**

**Our Journey**:
Specialist Consulting Funding Support plays an integral role in ensuring Monash Health meets Medicare and governing legislative requirements by completing auditing and data quality activities ensuring the Department of Health's non-admitted patient activity reporting requirements are met.

**A Day in the Life**:
We’re a collaborative, supportive and motivated team and are seeking a like-minded Funding Support Officer to join us. This is a unique and varied role where your skill and experience will relied upon across the broader team. Coordination, auditing, and reporting on data anomalies is one aspect where you’ll ensure accurate and timely reporting of non-public specialist consulting clinics and appointment types such as; MBS, specified grants, and other third party funding sources.

You’ll also have responsibility for developing and presenting training materials to assist end users; support them with implementation of new business process improvements; and be involved in testing of new system implementation upgrades and modifications.

In this fulltime ongoing position, you’ll have the flexibility to work on-site at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton and from home.

**What You Bring**:
Key to your success in this role is your knowledge of business processes within health services, ideally with an understanding of medical terminology, the Department of Health’s reporting guidelines and policies for activity based funding. You’ll be an expert when it comes to MS Office, and draw on your experience using a patient administration system.

Your experience with MBS billing will be highly considered.

**On a Personal Level, you**:

- Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and can converse with staff at all levels.
- Demonstrated commitment to high quality outcomes and attention to detail
- Excellent time management, planning and organisation skills
- The ability to adapt in a changing environment to meet demands
- A team player.

**In Return**

Ours is a connected team with strong shared values and an unwavering commitment to excellence. You’ll be part of a highly skilled, collaborative and welcoming team where you can tangibly see the outputs of your work.

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Leslie Frank on 9594 3848.

**Monash Health is a great place to work**

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

- salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- 5 weeks annual leave
- a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- free flu vaccinations
- private health insurance at discounted rates
- health imaging services
- + more

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service and proudly provides healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 people work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne.

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

**How to Apply**

**Applications are only accepted that are submitted via the Monash Health online Mercury System (e-recruit).