Administration Officer

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: 59882

**About Monash Health**

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We provide safe, high-quality care to one-quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan, from pre-birth to end-of-life.

More than 22,000 of us work at over 40 care locations across south-east Melbourne, including seven hospitals and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities. Each year:

- We provide more than 3.4 million episodes of care to our community,
- More than 276,000 people are admitted to our hospitals,
- Close to 220,000 people receive care at our three emergency departments,
- We respond to more than 67,000 ambulance arrivals,
- We perform more than 48,000 surgical procedures, and
- We deliver more than 10,000 babies.

We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to a fair, non-discriminatory workplace that maximises the talent, potential and contribution of all.

**About Community Rehabilitation**

The Monash Health Community Rehabilitation service actively engages with people to improve and maintain health, independence and well-being. We do this by coordinating and/or providing integrated, multidisciplinary care across multiple settings within the local community. Our aim is to help clients live their best lives by enabling them to access the support they need, when they need it.

Community Rehabilitation services may include therapy at home, at one of our centres and/or tele-rehabilitation consultations. We offer group and individual rehabilitation to adults in the community setting. The service is time-limited, goal-focussed and tailored to each person.
- We provide quality care focused on the person in the context of their life;
- We are interdisciplinary and innovative with a can-do attitude;
- We view change and challenge as great opportunities.

**About the Role**

An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic Administration Officer to join the Cranbourne and Pakenham Community Rehabilitation service. The Administration Officer is responsible for working within the Community Rehabilitation program to provide best practice client care and achieve maximal operational effectiveness. Drawing upon professional expertise in healthcare administration, the Community Rehabilitation Administration Officer provides direct administrative support to the Community Rehabilitation manager and interdisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of timely client-centred care. This position is responsible for administrative duties, data entry, secretarial and customer service duties for the Community Rehabilitation team and prgram. The Community Rehabilitation Administration Officer participates in process and quality improvement activities within the team and larger Community Rehabilitation network.

**About You**:

- Demonstrated experience in a similar role
- Experience in the use of Microsoft Office (Word/Outlook/Excel/PowerPoint)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated productivity including initiative, good problem solving, judgement, attention to detail, and managing multiple demands

**What We Offer**:

- Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your skills and knowledge base
- A supportive learning environment
- Ongoing professional development
- In addition you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, and Employee Assistance Program

**What you need**:

- Minimum Certificate Business Administration preferred or equivalent training or demonstrate experience in a similar role
- Victorian Police Check
- Working with Children's Check
- Well-developed interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills within a broad range of administration and organisational interactions
- _ Experience using iPM, HMS, Harrison and SMR (desirable)_

**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);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 sta