Facilities Officer

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan, Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Facilities Management, Health and Allied Health, Medical

Reference: 24458

**Facilities Coordinator**| Finance and Corporate Services**

**Ongoing Position**
**40 Hours per week**

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Finance and Corporate Services Department is responsible for bringing a commercial perspective to business decision making, supporting the Royal Women's business by providing operational and strategic information, expertise and guidance in the areas of finance, procurement, contractual management, payroll, facilities management and strategic asset management.

**Your contribution**

Reporting to, and working with the Facilities Manager, the role of the Facilities Coordinator is to ensure that the hospital’s property assets are managed and maintained in a manner that certifies all contractual, regulatory and statutory obligations are complied with as they relate to building management, and that a strong economic and customer focus is applied to all services.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Assist the Facilities Manager in monitoring and managing all contracts pertaining to the hospitals building assets, including the contract that governs the PPP arrangement for the Parkville facility;
- Facilitate all minor works across all of the hospital’s property assets;
- Ensure that all maintenance and rectification works are undertaken in a safe, expeditious and economic manner; and
- In conjunction with the Facilities Manager, provide an on-call service to address any issues that arise outside normal business hours.

**About you**

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

- Previous experience and understanding of the Public Private Partnership scheme;
- Previous experience in contract management; and
- Knowledge of the operations of a hospital.

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the**_ exceptional _**in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

**Ready to make the move?**

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement***

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category C of the departments risk ratings, applicants are strongly encouraged (although not required) to be vaccinated against influenza.)

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.