Administration Officer

Job Requisition ID: 943- Legal Entity: Monash Health- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168- Employment Type: Full Time and / or Part Time- Posting Date: 13 Sep 2024

**Monash Health is a great place to work**

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care across south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations; via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes.

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- Administration Assistant, Children's Health and Wellbeing Local
- 1 Full Time Position ONLY

**Monash Children's Health and Wellbeing Local - an innovative interdisciplinary service to improve the health and wellbeing of children with access to a one stop service for health and wellbeing support for the whole family.**

**The Children's Health and Wellbeing Local,** is a one-stop service to provide therapy that involves all aspects of an infant's or child’s life from 0-11 years. The **Children’s Local Service** is funded for community health, mental health, and family support services to enable mental health consultations, assessments, and treatments to infants, children and families in the South-eastern region of Victoria. Victorian families will be able to access a range of specialist medical and allied health services, including paediatricians, occupational therapists, psychologists and speech pathologists including parenting supports. The **Children’s Local Service** sits alongside **Early in Life Mental Health Service (ELMHS)**, **Monash Childrens** and **Monash Health Community**.

The **Children’s Local Service** is centrally situated at **Cranbourne**,** **with spoke sites across the catchment of Dandenong, Casey, and Cardinia.

The first if its kind, this service has been designed in consultation with local communities, people with lived experience as well as local service providers, including Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisations, to ensure service offerings are tailored to local needs and build on existing services and capacity. A unique new service for Victorian families to access specialist mental health treatment, developmental assessments, or paediatrician-led medical care with a renewed innovative focus to enable early intervention and age-appropriate care to meet developmental and behavioural and emotional challenges.

**_“It's a chance for us to change the system and do things differently to make measurable change in children's lives. It will allow us to work together, innovatively, to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families” _**Victoria McKay, Paediatrician**

**About You**

You are seeking a new opportunity to work closely with an equally passionate multidisciplinary team to deliver a range of specialist medical and allied health services to make a real difference. You are excited to be part of a first of its kind, innovative program focused on making measurable change to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families. To ensure your success in this role, you will have the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge:

- Demonstrated knowledge and skills in the provision of administration services
- Demonstrated ability in Microsoft Office 365 Suite (Word / Outlook / Excel / SharePoint / Teams)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in use of databases and client systems or similar
- Ability to work cohesively with a range of medical and allied health professionals
- Demonstrated organisation, time management, planning and priority setting
- _Prior experience using IPM, SMR, HMS and Harrison_
- _Prior experience in a healthcare setting_

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Elise Colgrave on 0460 577 857.

**Position Description can be** **found here**

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

**How to Apply**

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.

**Applications close: 27th September, 2024.