Monash Breastscreen Data Clerk

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: 56761

**This vital role, working within the Breast Services team,** performs data entry and administration tasks to** **ensure that clients attending Monash BreastScreen receive their results for both screening and assessment in a timely manner. Data clerical staff maintain a high level of quality in their data entry and daily quality activities, which are required for adhering to the BreastScreen national standards and is essential for reporting/research purposes.

**About Monash Health**

**About Monash Health Breast Services and Monash BreastScreen**

Monash BreastScreen is the largest Reading and Assessment Service (RAS) in Victoria. It provides screening, reading and assessment services for approximately 65,000 women per year in the South Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. The RAS is located at Moorabbin Hospital.

As part of Monash Breast Services, Monash BreastScreen is a key component of an integrated continuum of multidisciplinary care for women from screening and diagnosis through the assessment of symptoms, diagnosis and management of breast cancer and benign breast disease.

**About The Role**

Duties include creation, retrieval and filing of client files, retrieving and sending images, data entry and quality activities of data entered, data reception tasks, hanging of images for reading, and assessment preparation.

This role is part-time ongoing, based at the Moorabbin Hospital site.

**About You**

You have high attention to detail, a passion for data and women’s health. You enjoy working within a team and individually.

You thrive working in a dynamic, busy, multi-tasked environment and are truly passionate about delivering a high standard of data quality. You are an advocate of Monash Health’s Strategic Guiding Principles

**What you need**
- Experience in data entry and general clerical work is essential
- Record handling and experience in a health setting, particularly in a Medical Records Department, is an advantage
- Familiarity with medical terminology
- Demonstrated accuracy in alpha numeric keyboard skills, strong communication skills and a pleasant manner are essential
- High level organisational and time management skills
- attention to detail
- Ability to assess and prioritise workload

**What we offer**:

- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your skills and knowledge base
- a caring team of colleagues
- support and training
- an atmosphere of openness, kindness and respect
- dynamic changing environment that will have future growth

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay, access to onsite staff car parking and gym **(only where relevant)**, uniform **(only where relevant)** and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

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 Mon ash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

**How to Apply**

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);and
- 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.