Administration Officer

#523281 Administration Officer

Calvary Mater Newcastle

Department of Palliative Care

Permanent Part-Time

Permanent Part-Time (24 hours per week).
**Salary Classification**: Administration Officer Level 3 Year 1-2
**Remuneration**: $33.30-$34.33 per hour, plus superannuation.

**The Role**:
The Administration Officer provides operational support to the Department of Palliative Care and collaborates with staff, visitors, and patients.

The successful applicant will have strong administration and organisational skills. You will receive ongoing training and support while participating in activities across inpatient and community programs.

**The Department**:
The Department of Palliative Care offers a comprehensive specialist service, providing integrated multidisciplinary palliative care across inpatient and community health care settings in the local Newcastle area, as well as support to the district’s wider network of palliative care teams. The vision of palliative care is to provide clinical care, education and research to better enable patients with life limiting illnesses to receive optimal care in their preferred setting.

Our department operates a 17-bed inpatient hospice, a 24-hour multidisciplinary community palliative care service, provides clinical support to the wider Hunter New England Local Health District, outreach rounding to 40 local residential aged care facilities, outpatient ambulatory specialist palliative care clinic, Motor Neurone Disease supportive care clinic, district-wide telehealth clinic, an integrated accelerated transfer to die at home program and bereavement services.

**Your Responsibilities**:
Assist in the management of clinical data, audit and benchmarking processes.
Maintain high quality clinical records and ensure accurate patient information.
Referral processing, intake, inpatient administrative activities and support to the outreach team.
Provide administrative support to clinicians including generation of letters, communications and management of enquiries.

**What you bring**:
Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision and as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
Willing and able to a 7-day roster with flexibility to adapt with reasonable notice to work requirements when required.
Experience in the delivery of administrative support to a clinical service and competency with MS Office, particularly the use of excel spreadsheets.
Demonstrated ability to initiate, prioritise, negotiate, organise and complete a highly complex and busy workload and to meet deadlines with limited direction.
Well-developed communication skills with the ability to liaise effectively with a diverse range of people whilst maintaining confidentiality, sound judgement and exercising discretion.

WHY JOIN US?

CMN is an Affiliated Health Organisation providing services to both public and private patients primarily from the Hunter New England area. Current employees of NSW Health can request to have various leave entitlement balances transferred to CMN on commencement. Leave types may include but not limited to Long Service Leave, Annual Leave and Sick Leave. Applicants are encouraged to discuss this with the Convenor for further information. Working at CMN gives you access to a great range of benefits:
Fitness Passport.
Gender Neutral parental leave
Annual Leave Loading at 17.5 %
Superannuation contributions at 11%
ADO's each month (for full-time employees)
Novated leasing available for eligible employees
4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part-time employees)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
Generous Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay

HOW DO YOU APPLY?

Create a profile in our Calvary People Platform (if you are not an existing user)
Attach a current resume.
Provide a written response to four (4) selection criteria.
Cover letters are optional (1-2 pages max.)

**Please note the following**:
You will be required to provide evidence of immunisation as required for your role including COVID-19, influenza, tuberculosis screening, hepatitis, diphtheria, tetanus, varicella.