Admissions Clerk

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: 24628

**Admissions and Triage Clerk
- Women's Emergency Care (WEC)**
- Ongoing Positions
- Minimum 16 hours per week

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Women’s Emergency Care (ED), provides direct clinical care for over 28,000 women per year with emergency maternity and gynaecology problems, including emergency care for newborns who were born at the Women's and are less than two weeks of age. The unit also has a key role in providing education and training for local, national and international health professionals.

We are patient-centred with our focus on the clinical wellbeing of our patients. We recognise and support other aspects of care, such as psychological, psychosocial, social, and socioeconomic. This requires extensive liaison and co-ordination with various services within the hospital such as social work, the Centre against Sexual Assault, and mental health services.

You will be required to enter registration data on to the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) EPIC and iPM.

**Your contribution**:
Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Data entry into EMR
- Admission of patients using IPM
- Connection of televisions through the hospital (out of hours)
- Liaising with Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedical staff

**About you**

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment
- Be comfortable dealing with the public, combined with a professional and caring attitude
- Be flexible and able to multitask while maintaining key standards of data entry
- Ability to work a rotating roster, including night shifts and weekends, will only will be considered.

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the**_ exceptional _**in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

**Ready to make the move?**

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement**

Please be aware that in line with the Chief Health Officers COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Direction, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of HealthcareWorkers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza.

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.