Administration Officer

Permanent Opportunity, Full Time - 80 hrs per f/n (1 EFT)
- Located at The Alfred, in Prahran
- Maximise your take home salary with salary packaging and novated leasing

**Alfred Health**

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services. On 1 January 2026, Alfred Health will come together with Kooweerup Regional Health Service, Peninsula Health, Bass Coast Health and Gippsland Southern Health Service to create Bayside Health, a newly merged health service with more than 22,000 employees caring for a community of over 1.2 million Victorians. The new health service will provide people with the best possible care with services that support them throughout their lives. The merger will also strengthen our workforce, providing new training, education and career opportunities. Subject to final approval on 1 January 2026, all employees from the five health services will transfer to Bayside Health.
- **Permanent Opportunity**:

- ** Full Time at 80 hrs per f/n (with Monthly ADO's)**:

- ** Grade 2 Administrator**:

- ** Located at The Alfred**:

- ** Great Staff Benefits**

**Department Summary**

Alfred Health and Monash Health have established a formal partnership to deliver a Shared Pathology Service as one of three new pathology networks for metropolitan Melbourne. All roles in the Pathology Programs are working to develop the Partnership and ensure we continue to provide high quality care for the patients across the health services. Alfred Pathology Service (APS) provides a comprehensive range of pathology testing, consultation services and collection services to clinicians and patients of Alfred Health. The Service has 5 units (Anatomical Pathology, Clinical Biochemistry, Haematology and Microbiology, Human Molecular Pathology), each headed by a Unit Head. APS has the core laboratory at The Alfred as well as a small local laboratory at Sandringham hospital. APS has several collection centres and is responsible for specimen collection of about 50% of its samples.

**Position Summary**

We are looking for a highly motivated Administration officer based within Anatomical Pathology, who is responsible the organisation and administration duties including personal assistance to the Unit Director. The role supports the function of the Anatomical Pathology Unit by performing a range of tasks including providing reception duties, telephone enquiries and multidisciplinary meeting coordination.

**Essential Skills**
- Ability to organise daily work in a careful and accurate way, with a high attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Pleasant telephone manner and good spoken English
- Understanding of medical terminology
- Experience in office procedures, particularly in a pathology service, hospital or medical environment
- Computer proficiency with ccompetency in keyboard/word processing and the MS Office suite of software
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people of varying backgrounds and ability to contribute to a cohesive team environment are expected
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently both independently
- Ability to use initiative and anticipate needs while working under pressure.

**Staff Benefits**
- 5 weeks of annual leave + 13 additional days off (ADO's) per year
- Salary packaging and novated leasing are available via Maxxia to maximise take-home salary
- Access to health and well-being incentives such as the Fitness Passport and discounted health insurance
- Onsite staff gym - a payroll deductible expense

**Applications close at 11 pm Sunday, 5th October 2025**

In accordance with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, health care workers in Category A or B roles (as determined by the department’s risk ratings) are required to be vaccinated against influenza or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

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