Administrative Support Officer

Location: Melbourne | Eastern 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, Nursing

Reference: 59773
- Does helping others give you job satisfaction?
- Do you enjoy working in a fast-pace dynamic environment
- Be a part of the brand new and first of its kind Paediatric Emergency Psychiatric Service (EPS) Team

**About Monash Health**

**About ELMHS**

ELMHS provides a range of mental health services to pregnant mothers, infants, children and adolescents and their families within the Southern Region.

**About the Paediatric Emergency Psychiatric Service (P-EPS)**

The P-EPS is a new initiative for the dedicated mental health assessment of children and adolescents and is the first of its kind outside of the Royal Children's hospital in the State of Victoria. It is designed to provide timely and dedicated assessment of children and adolescents within the new Children's Emergency Department thereby providing a more conducive environment for complex presentations within a bio-psychosocial model.

The service will comprise a multi-disciplinary team from within the Early in Life Mental Health Service Program (ELMHS) including Lived Experience staff and will have synergies with all other ELMHS sub-programs and the inpatient unit.

**About the Role**

An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic Administration Support Officer to join the brand new Paediatric Emergency Psychiatric Service (P-EPS) team within Early in Life Mental Health Service (ELMHS).

Your need for variety and to be busy will make this the ideal role for you. This role will give you the opportunity to provide exceptional service to our clients and support the P-EPS team. You will work with a team of busy mental health professionals to provide administration support using a wide range of systems and databases, including:

- Supporting the Information Management needs of the Service including data entry and health information management
- Completing Operational Tasks to support the day-to-day operations of the Service

**About You**

You are a proactive, experienced healthcare administrator who enjoys a fast-paced environment and can work effectively in an autonomous role. Prioritising comes naturally to you and being in a hospital environment you exhibit integrity, compassion, accountability, respect and excellence. You have:

- Minimum of 2 years administrative experience (experience in a mental health setting is desirable)
- Friendly and helpful customer service and communication skills
- Proven organisational skills and can work autonomously
- Demonstrable ability to manage a range of administration responsibilities across a number of areas
- A quality focus whilst ensuring work is completed within the required timeframes
- Ability to travel to all Monash Health Sites
- Standards in thoroughness, accuracy and speed

**Monash Health will offer**:

- salary packaging
- friendly and supportive culture
- opportunity to experience various teams
- on-going supervision and professional development

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises 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.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same)
- proof of immunisation

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.