Receptionist

**Employment Status**

Casual

**Program**

Community Health Rehab & Palliative Care

**Location**

Barwon Health North, Corio CHC

**Hours Per Fortnight**

0

**Position Summary**
- Casual Administrative Reliever position at Barwon Health North’s new facility
- Work with an innovative multidisciplinary team in new state of the art facilities
- Enhance your career with the largest regional healthcare service in Victoria

**About the facility**

Barwon Health is one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in Australia, providing care at all stages of life and circumstance. Health services available through Barwon Health cover the full spectrum from primary care, community services, aged care, rehabilitation, mental health, emergency and acute care. There are approximately 8000 staff across 24 locations, including University Hospital, McKellar Centre, Community Health Centres, Alan David Lodge and Barwon Health North.

**Barwon Health North**

Barwon Health North is a new two story facility located in the Northern Suburbs of Geelong to provide a state of the art flexible health facility to meet the growing needs of the community.

Barwon Health North will provide accessible healthcare close to home and to public transport bridging the gap between the acute settings at the University Hospital Geelong by providing the following services
- Urgent Care Services
- Medical Imaging
- Child and Family Services
- Healthy at Home (Chronic and Complex Care)
- Dialysis
- Specialist Clinics

**About the role**

The Receptionist at Barwon Health North will ensure that all administrative functions support each patient’s journey of access and patient centred care with a high standard quality in line with the organisational values.

Duties of the role include but are not limited to:

- Providing information to customers promptly and in an easily understood form and that is accurate, current and complete
- Assisting any visitors with general enquiries whist ensuring that the waiting area in maintained as comfortable as possible for visitors to the centre.
- Undertake the day to day administration duties of the assigned area including, banking, site issues, data entry, DMR scanning, risks and improvements.
- Develop self-improvement plan in consultation with the Clerical Supervisor to ensure continuous improvement goals are achieved.

**About the culture**

The Northern Suburbs is both dynamic and challenging environment; where staff draw on a large scope of practice and need to be able to think outside the square to work with some of our client cohorts. The possibilities to be innovative are endless.

There is a strong and supportive team culture in our current services at Corio, which will align and integrate with those being delivered at Barwon Health North. Working together across a range of disciplines staff have a focus on clients and their health improvement or improving self-management skills to enhance living with chronic illness. Our team culture can be best described as forward striving, involved, empathetic and innovative.

There is a strong alignment to Barwon Health values in our team and as a staff member of our team, you will be part of the culture that lives the values. That is to enable all of the team and clinicians own professional goals to be met in a supportive and accountable environment. Our leadership team understand the challenges at the coalface and we will work side by side with all staff to find solutions.

**Barwon Health staff benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development
- Access to employee wellness Program
- Salary packaging
- Social club
- Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast

**About the Geelong Region, AUSTRALIA**

Sitting within one of Victoria’s six regional health centres, Barwon Health serves the community of Greater Geelong and beyond. Victoria’s second largest city after Melbourne Derived from the local Wadawurrung name for the region; Djillong, (Geelong) is means “Tongue of Land”.
- Enjoy a range of lifestyle choices including inner city, coastal, suburban and rural homes at affordable prices.
- High standard of schooling options throughout the area
- A stone throw from the Surf Coast and Great Ocean Road
- Appreciate beautiful parks, rivers, walks and wineries
- To find out more about the Geelong region, visit our Moving to the Region page on the Barwon Health website.

**Diversity and Inclusion**

At Barwon Health we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.

We are also proud to be Totally Smoke Free.

**_ This role must be fully vaccinated for Covid -19 and influenza and meet the requireme