Es & Gastro Booking Officer (Mulitple Positions)

**Job no**: 859710
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Administration and Clerical, Medical
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network -Lyell McEwin Hospital and Modbury Hospital - Elizabeth Vale**:

- **Salary: $66,590 - $70,968 p.a. - ASO3;
- ES & Gastro Booking Office - **Permanent Full-Time - Multiple Positions**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Administration Officer looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Administration Officer within the Gastro Outpatients Department.

The Elective Surgery and Gastroenterology Booking Officer provides a comprehensive, friendly and patient focused service to patients waiting for elective procedures and undertakes accurate, comprehensive and confidential data entry of patients being waitlisted for elective procedures. The incumbent plans and programs elective lists to ensure maximum theatre utilization and patient flow with consideration to equipment requirements, length of stay (LOS) and age. The incumbent must ensure adherence to the elective surgery guidelines around timeliness, treat in turn and categorization priority of patients to minimize risk to the health unit and to maximise the efficiency of operating theatres. The incumbent schedules and manages all required pre-admission and post-operative appointments for patients having elective procedures internally or externally. A key outcome is ensuring the accurate capture, amendment and updating of admission and outpatient information including generation of computerised reports to ensure sound management of elective surgery and gastroenterology waiting lists.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

**Check(s)**
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving no contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (general employment)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)**

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