Administrative Assistant

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 890840
**Location**: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Surgical Services, North Adelaide (5006)**:

- **Salary**
- **Classification - ASO2 - Administrative Services Officer L2 - $**58,709**to $**63,154**
- **Full time - Term Contract (12-month contract)**

**About the Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the **Surgical Services** team as an **Administrative Assistant,**where you will be responsible for:

- Providing a comprehensive, confidential administrative service to the Paediatric Surgery Department.
- Coordinating theatre lists for a group of medical officers.
- Performing medical typing tasks.
- Supporting outpatient clinics and liaising with patients and their carers.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Effective interpersonal and customer service skills
- Demonstrated initiative and good organisational skills, ability to set priorities, work under pressure and undertake some problem solving with limited assistance
- Experience in administrative/secretarial role in a health care related environment
- Understanding patient rights and responsibilities and confidentiality

**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.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

**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 flexible working arrangements for this role.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

**Enquiries**
- Paula Bertram

Position: Manager, Administrative Services
Phone: 8161 8389

**Application Closing Date**:29/1/2025** - 11:55pm

**Useful Links**

ASO2- Surgical Services
- Admin Assistant - Role Description 890840.pdf

**Flexibility Statement**
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.