Ward Clerk

**Job no**: 900653
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Administration, Business and Management
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin Hospital - Elizabeth Vale**:

- **Salary**: $58,709 - $63,154 p.a.** **plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits** **- ASO2**:

- **Ongoing Full-Time**

**About the Role**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking a dedicated and skilled individual to join our Health Information Management Service team as a Ward Clerk.

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia.

As a Ward Clerk, you will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth operation of our hospital wards. Your responsibilities will include maintaining accurate patient records, coordinating patient admissions and discharges, managing ward supplies and providing exceptional customer service to patients, visitors and staff.

**About You**:
Are you dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

To succeed in this role, you must possess excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to multitask effectively. Strong interpersonal and communication abilities are essential as you will interact with a diverse range of individuals, including medical professionals, patients and their families.

In addition to your technical skills, you must demonstrate a genuine commitment to patient care and a desire to contribute to the delivery of high-quality healthcare services. Your professionalism, empathy and resilience will be invaluable assets in this challenging yet rewarding position.

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

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.

**Check(s)**:

- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is**-** Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)**

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job Ref: 900653**

**Enquiries**:
Claire Hannon

Office Manager, Ward Clerks

Phone: 0466 820 355

**Application Closing Date**:
23 May 2025 **-** 11.55PM

**Role Description and Further Information**:
**Advertised**: 09 May 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 23 May 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time