Receptionist Carrum Downs

**Family friendly work/life balance workplace**:

- **Rewarding and meaningful work**:

- ** Save on tax with generous salary packaging benefits -**Novated leasing, general living expenses, regional area benefits, meal entertainment, Holiday Accommodation and Venue hire
- **Paid training & we support Career Progression -** Scholarship programs, student placement and internal promotion opportunities
- ** Access our Employee Assistance program - **Confidential free counselling (personal, work, financial or legal).
- ** Employee wellness portal** - access great discounts
- ** Eligible staff receive benefits like income protection from our default Superannuation provider**

**We are looking for a positive and friendly Receptionist to join our team**

**The position is casual with a possibility of fixed term**

**Earn great casual rates, $37.82 p/hr**

**11% Super + Not for profit packaging**

**About us...**

**MiCare** is proud to be a culturally and linguistically diverse organisation. A large part of our work is assisting people from a non-Australian background and we respect their culture, their history, their language and tastes, and their stories.

We are here for everyone believing that all people have the right to be respected and their differences celebrated.

**About the role...**

We are looking for a positive and friendly Receptionist to join our team

The Receptionist will provide a high standard of customer service to staff, clients, contractors and visitors, aligned to MiCare's values. The position will manage calls on a switchboard for a wide range of requests and provide a range of general administrative support to programs of the organisation. Strong demonstrated experience in a similar Receptionist role is essential.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

- Manage reception duties, including appropriate and approachable answering of incoming telephone calls. Taking of messages and passing them on in an accurate and timely manner
- Handle the incoming and outgoing mail
- Administration of the Emergency phones for Independent living and Community Services (Kilsyth only)
- Printing documents/books in a timely manner as required
- Administration and allocation of keys and building access
- Taking and receipting of monies paid by Elders and family in relation to prior invoicing.
- Taking of MiMeals orders and passing on to service provider (kitchen) in a timely and accurate manner
- Attend to stationary requests and place orders when required
- Invoice Elders when requested in relation to goods & services provided
- Maintain Petty Cash and complete banking/cash reconciliation on a daily basis.
- Assist Facility Managers with administrative tasks

**About you...**

You will have excellent communication and time management skills. You will be self-motivated with a flexible, caring and patient attitude.

**Qualifications**:

- A business related Diploma would be advantageous but not essential
- A qualification relevant to the role and function for this position

**Skills**
- Strong demonstrated experience in a Receptionist role, ideally in the Aged Care sector
- Demonstrated experience using a switchboard
- Excellent time management skills and an ability to manage competing priorities
- Well-developed interpersonal skills
- Good numeracy skills
- The ability to work with mínimal supervision
- The ability to work in a culturally sensitive manner within an ethno-specific environment
- Intermediate knowledge of Ms Word, Excel and Outlook
- Good attention to detail
- The ability to speak Dutch/ another language, advantageous but not essential

**A police check with no disclosable outcome, current flu vaccination and a COVID-19 vaccination is required by MiCare for this position.**

**A commitment to work exclusively with MiCare Residential Aged Care facility as your only employer during COVID-19 will be highly regarded.**

**How to apply...**

**If you meet the above criteria and you’re interested in contributing to an organisation that values the highest level of quality in everything it sets out to achieve, we want to hear from you**

MiCare is a Child Safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children.

MiCare says “NO” to Family Violence. We believe that everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, valued and treated as equals.

MiCare is committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.

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