Administrative Assistant

**Title**:Administrative Assistant**:

- Requisition ID: 2263
- Location: Richmond, VIC, AU, 3121
- Job Posting Date: 20 Dec 2024

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**Receptionist / Administration Assistant**
- Temporary Part Time (1 year contract) | Experience work-life balance
- Spectrum | 110 Church Street Richmond, Victoria
- Excellent Team Engagement | Culture of learning and improvement

**Eastern Health**
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.

Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

**Spectrum**
Spectrum specialises in personality disorder and complex trauma. Spectrum is a centre of clinical excellence for personality disorder and the statewide specialist personality disorder service for Victoria, funded by the Department of Health and provided by Eastern Health.

Spectrum provides direct clinical care for people with complex and or severe personality disorder, secondary consultations and second opinions for clinicians working with people experiencing complex trauma or personality disorders and workforce development opportunities. Underpinning these areas are Spectrum’s research, innovation and evaluation activities. Spectrum provides leadership and advocacy for appropriate access to evidence based healthcare and other supports for individuals and their carers living with personality disorder across Australia.

**About the role**

The position is based in Richmond within a statewide service specialising in personality disorder and complex trauma. This administrative position is responsible for providing a courteous and professional receptionist response to all phone call enquiries and visitors to Spectrum and for the provision of general administrative services. The emphasis of the working environment is one of teamwork and the position will include participation in a multi-disciplinary environment. This includes interaction of Turning point staff who co-locate with Spectrum. There is an expectation that all administrative staff be multi skilled and perform all functions across clinical and corporate settings as described in the position description.

**About you**
To be successful in this role you will possess:(examples below)
- Experience of working in a reception/administration environment.
- Demonstrated experience in a quality focussed client service area
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to relate to people at all levels;
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise multiple projects to meet deadlines;
- Intermediate computer skills with competence in the use of Microsoft programs
- Demonstrated ability to work with limited supervision.
- Demonstrated initiative and ability to follow up;
- Commitment to a proactive approach of improving client service delivery.

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

**What we offer**

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**

**Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.

Contact Person: Demi Riley

Contact Number: 8413 8750

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1)

**Our Values in Action**:
Respect for all | Safe always | Partnering in care | Learning and improving every day