Data Coordinator, Specialist Clinics

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Ongoing - Full Time

**Salary**:$25 - $35

**Grade**:Undefined

**Occupation**: IT and Telecommunications

**Location**: Melbourne

**Reference**: 2835

**_ Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the department**

Specialist Clinics provide planned non-admitted services that require the focus of an acute setting to ensure the best outcome for a patient. These services are an important interface in the health system between acute inpatient and primary care services.

Patients are referred to Specialist Clinics by general practitioners (GPs), specialist and other community-based healthcare providers, as well as clinicians in the Emergency Department, in-patient units and other areas of the hospital.

**About the role**

Data Coordinators are responsible for providing accurate and timely reports to enhance patient care and service delivery. Along with mandatory performance reporting, areas of the business may request specific data to support development of business cases or optimisation of clinic services. Engagement with multidisciplinary stakeholders is essential to ensure appropriate data extraction and translation meets service need.

Data Coordinators assist in systems management, including working alongside Austin IT Department, Health Information Services and external vendors to participate in software upgrades, patches, maintaining documentation, and testing for our key technical systems (TrakCare, Queue Manager).

A regular day will see you:

- Create and maintain all clinic templates on Trakcare
- Build new clinics in Specialist Clinic systems as well as the registration of clinics on Department of Health Website to capture Activity Based Funding.
- Collaborate with Specialist Units, Medical Workforce, Health Information Systems and IT to ensure business rules for clinic templates meet service needs.
- Monitor the data integrity of the systems and resolve any data integrity issues including the maintenance of reference tables.

**About you**

As the Data Coordinator, You will be someone who has excellent communication skills, with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care. You’ll bring energy and drive to your work, and have a keen interest in developing your skillset.

To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:

- High level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Outlook, with an aptitude to learn other relevant software systems such as Trakcare and Queue Manager.
- Experience with using PowerBi dashboards for data analysis, extraction, interpretation and reporting
- Detail-oriented with the demonstrated ability to understand and follow complex system processes
- Excellent time management and organisational skills

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: Tuesday 10 June 2025**

Applications close Tuesday 10 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 26 May 2025