Casual Administrative Assistant

• Friendly and supportive team environment
  
• Challenging and rewarding work environment
  
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
  
• Casual opportunities!
  

About the Role
An exciting opportunity currently exists to join the administrative team at the St Vincent’s Mental Health department. This position plays a key role in providing administrative support across a variety of sites and will work with both administrative and clinical staff to ensure effective and efficient operationalisation of all day-to-day administrative functions of the department. The administrative assistant plays a crucial role in ensuring and maintaining workflow across the site.

• Act as a front-line contact for the service
  
• Present a high level of customer service and professional standards at all times
  
• Ensure that legislative, statistical and documentation requirements are adhered to
  
• Efficiently and effectively collect, collate and enter data into a range of software programs and self-monitor for accuracy.
  
• Work across multiple areas of St Vincent’s Mental Health
  

The classification for this position will be YC88 ($32.02 per hour, plus casual loading)




Your Contribution

• Flexibility to work across a variety of sites (Fitzroy, East Melbourne, Kew, Hawthorn)
  
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills.
  
• Proven ability to work with minimal supervision
  
• Ability to determine workload priorities and meet deadlines
  
• Commitment to the values and health care philosophy of St. Vincent’s
  
• A valid Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check, or willing to obtain
  

What We Offer

• A focus on wellbeing initiatives, with regular events and programs
• Confidential, solutions-focused employee counselling
• A healthy work/life balance encouraged.
• Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
• Discounts and Promotions always available through our Foundation
• Regular opportunities for professional development to assist you to reach your career goals
• Culture of continuous improvement

About the Mental Health Department
St. Vincent’s Mental Health (SVMH) includes an adult area mental health service for the inner city areas of Yarra and Boroondara. The adult mental health service components are: The Footbridge Community Care Unit (CCU), the 44 bed Acute Inpatient Service (AIS) located on the St. Vincent’s Hospital site, the North Fitzroy PARC and two community mental health services (CMHS) at Hawthorn and East Melbourne (Clarendon CMHS). The Acute Inpatient Service includes 5 beds designated as the Koori State-wide Inpatient Service and linked to the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service. Community mental health services comprise the Triage and Crisis assessment and Treatment (CAT) Service and the Primary Intervention Care Team (PICT) includes Extended Triage and HOPE (Suicide Prevention), Continuing Care (CCT), Mobile Support and Treatment (MST) and Homeless Outreach (CHOPS) services. A Consultation & Liaison Service is provided to the health service. NEXUS Dual Diagnosis Service and the Body Image and Eating Disorders Assessment and Treatment Service (BETRS) are regional services. Statewide services are the Victorian Dual Disability Service and the Victorian Transcultural Mental Health.




Working at St Vincent’s
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.




Application

• Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.


We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.



Please visit our website, for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM


SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).