Administration Team Leader

**Job no**: 918832
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Southern
**Categories**: Administration, Business and Management, Medical, Public Health
- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - Flinders Medical Centre
- Intensive Care Unit
- Salary $67,589 - $72,033 p.a. (Pro Rata) ASO3| Temporary Part Time Position, 3.75 Hours per Week, Contract Until June 2026

**Lead Where It Matters Most: Administration Team Leader - Intensive Care Unit**

Lead a dedicated administrative team in the fast-paced environment of Flinders Medical Centre's Intensive Care Unit, where your leadership directly supports life-saving patient care. This part-time ongoing role offers the opportunity to coordinate essential administrative processes while mentoring staff and collaborating with clinical teams in one of South Australia's premier healthcare facilities. Join SA Health and make a meaningful impact in critical care administration, with excellent professional development opportunities and job security.

**About the role**:
Reporting to the ICU Nursing Director, this role is responsible for overseeing recruitment activities, staff orientation and roster coordination, manage team performance through reviews and development programs, and ensure equipment and stock procurement while maintaining excellent customer service standards. This leadership role involves balancing work allocations across team portfolios and fostering a collaborative team environment in our critical care setting.

Duties for the role will include:

- Ensure the effective management of human, financial and physical assets through appropriate planning and allocation of resources to achieve agreed Division / Unit / Ward / Service and strategic plans,
- Providing emergency relief of all uncovered shifts with mínimal notice and/or finding a suitable resolution ensuring that the Unit is adequately resourced to continue to provide adequate administrative support to the ICU,
- Resolving issues within a day-to-day environment for which there may not be clearly established procedures,
- Providing line management of Administration Staff by coordinating rosters and leave; providing feedback to staff on work performance and maintaining a team environment,
- Undertaking the Performance Review and Development process for staff reporting to the position, identifying training opportunities and supporting staff to gain further skills to enhance both their own development and the function of the Unit,
- Preparing duty and leave rosters ensuring compliance with award and enterprise agreement requirements,
- Monitoring work output, counselling staff and managing unsatisfactory performance as appropriate

**About you**:

- Proven sound management and leadership skills,
- High level organisational skills,
- Negotiating and conflict resolution skills,
- Ability to foster co-operation within a team environment to garner support to achieve desired outcomes,
- Recent experience working within an administrative area, preferably within a health setting,
- Proven experience in computing skills, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office Suite including Excel,
- Experience in managing staff performing a range of clerical duties and tasks,
- Proven experience in the provision of office administrative services, particularly to senior staff,
- Experience establishing, maintaining and improving office administrative systems and process, including financial and record keeping systems

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

The attached role description is currently under review and may be adjusted prior to appointment. All applicants will be provided with the finalised role description.

**Application Closing Date**:**11.55 pm Sunday 2 November 2025

**Attachments**:

- Administration Team Leader - ICU Role Description
- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines

**Applicant Information**:

- We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
- 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.
- 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**:918832**

**Advertised**: 17 Oct 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 02 Nov 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time