Ward Clerk

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

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Reference: 54448

Join the Reef team as a Ward Clerk in the supportive team at Monash Children’s Hospital, Clayton.
- Ongoing opportunity 0.5 EFT - Monday to Friday
- Available to work a rotating roster across AM and PM shifts

**Working in Healthcare has never been more important or meaningful**

**Our Journey**:
In support of the growing needs of our diverse local community, Monash Children’s Hospital (MCH) cares for more than 100,000 children per year, providing care across the continuum of paediatric services from birth to 18 years of age.? It is one of the largest children’s hospitals in Australia and one of only two tertiary paediatric hospitals in Victoria.

MCH is co-located next to Monash Medical Centre in Clayton and is a purpose-built paediatric facility and includes Reef Unit, home to the Children’s Cancer Centre, our day oncology unit. The centre provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary model of care to children and young people with cancer and haematological conditions. Reef Unit cares for approximately 30% of Victoria’s childhood cancer patients with state of the art facilities including 9 dedicated cancer inpatient beds and a comprehensive, multidisciplinary outpatient service with 12-day treatment beds.

**A Day in the Life**:
Being part of this established team, you will support the administration required to run paediatric oncology services safely and efficiently at Monash Children's Hospital. With a caring and engaging manner, you will contribute to a multidisciplinary team to provide the best patient and family centred care. Working under the delegation of the Nurse Unit Manager you will have responsibility for maintaining excellent service delivery by improving the patient experience.

Amongst other tasks, key responsibilities will include:

- Management of patient information
- Booking outpatient appointments
- Ordering and management of medical/surgical consumables
- Booking patient transport

In this permanent ongoing role you will work 20 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Reef Unit is open from 8am to 6.30pm and as such the team of Ward Clerks are expected work various times, to ensure shift coverage. Your availability to meet this requirement is key to the provision of the service to our patients and their families.

**What You Bring**:

- Experience in a similar role and familiarity with hospital IT systems such as IPM (highly regarded)
- Completion of Medical Terminology Course (highly regarded)

**On a Personal Level, you**:

- Thrive in a busy environment
- Effectively work with a multidisciplinary team, but also can work autonomously
- Know the importance of, and how to deal with, sensitive and confidential information
- Friendly, customer service driven, with exceptional effective communication skills
- Proactive, organised, and can multitask

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

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

- Salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- A comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- Free flu vaccinations
- Private health insurance at discounted rates health imaging services
- + more

Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing more than 20,000 people who work across 40 locations delivering healthcare services through our five hospitals and our extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities

We recognise 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 and ICare values.

**How to Apply**

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.