Admin Officer Chestnut Gardens

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Communications, Marketing and Media, Finance, Health and Allied Health, Human Resources, Information Management, Procurement

Reference: 57637
- Shift times are 0700-1530 and 1030-1900, Monday to Friday.

Working in healthcare has never been more important or meaningful.

Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing over 22,000 people across a range of specialities.

Monash Health is an impressive organisation of seven public hospitals, 21 community health sites, five aged care facilities, university affiliated international research and tertiary education. Monash Health has been caring for, and providing healthcare and aged living solutions, to Victorians for over 100 years. We provide healthcare for the entire lifespan from pre-birth to palliative care and all stages in between.

**Chestnut Gardens**

Chestnut Gardens, Doveton, is home to 100 high care residents and utilises the latest in care and design philosophies. Chestnut Gardens is built as a series of houses, each with its own decor.

Our residential care team at Chestnut Gardens work either in 'The Avenue' or 'The Boulevard' with residents with chronic physical and/ or mental health care conditions. To ensure the best care, those that live at Chestnut Gardens work in collaboration with a skilled nursing group in developing person centred care.

We are dedicated to delivering care in line with Monash Health iCare values and strive to ensure that all residents are treated with dignity and respect and receive personalised care that is culturally safe and in accordance with their preferences.

**About the role**

The Administration Officer is a key role at Chestnut Gardens, providing customer focused service to residents and their families. Working in a busy, team-based environment, the Administration Officer provides efficient and effective clerical support to the Facility Manager and clinical staff.

Your desire to help others, especially in a challenging situation, will be well met by this job. You will be the first contact for many of our Residents Families and visitors when they attend our facility, and empathy and patience is essential for this role. Your overall responsibilities involve enquiries ( in person and telephone), registering patient information, admissions, booking transport, stock ordering and other clerical tasks.We will put to work your customer service skills, and ability to remain helpful in what can be a challenging environment. Your clerical and keyboard experience will also be a great head start.

We offer comprehensive training that fully prepares you for the role. You will be sure to benefit from and be stimulated by the learning you will experience.

Your ability to multitask together with first class communication skills are the attributes you will most need for this position.

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children's Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.