Job Requisition ID: 5626
Legal Entity: Monash Health
Location: Dandenong, VIC, AU, 3175
Employment Type: Full Time
Posting Date: 1 Oct 2025
Monash Health is a great place to work
Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care across south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations; via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes.
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This role is for an administration officer to be part of our team at the Community Residential Withdrawal Unit, based in Dandenong in a full time permanent position.
About Us
The Monash Health Drug & Alcohol Service (MHDAS) operationally reports through to the Mental Health Program and is committed to providing opportunities for change and growth by reducing drug use, the harms from drug use, improving physical and mental health, and reconnecting and or maintaining people’s connections to their family and the community. The principle catchment areas are the Cities of Greater Dandenong, Casey and the Shire of Cardinia with sites located in Dandenong, Pakenham, Cranbourne and Berwick. The service employs approximately 75 EFT staff and budget of approximately $7 million. We provide a wide range of services including:
- Community Residential Withdrawal
- Primary Health Clinic
- Needle Syringe Program – fixed site, outreach and syringe dispensing machines
- Mobile Overdose Response & Mobile Drug Safety
- Proactive Overdose Response Initiative & Naloxone Subsidy
- Aboriginal Metropolitan ‘Ice’ Partnership
- Youth Supported Accommodation and Youth Outreach
- Peer Led Network trials and
- Assessment, Counselling and Non-residential withdrawal
We employ multidisciplinary clinicians across these wide ranging services including Peer Workers with lived/living experience.
About You
To thrive in this role and be an integral part of the team you need to be pro-active and a confident communicator with strong problem-solving ability. You will know how to prioritise your workload and always exhibit our iCare values: Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.
You will be a genuinely passionate and caring person who is highly committed to delievering exceptional administrative suupport, which will include data entry as per your role. As a clear communicator you will be able to bulid rapport easily with others and work well within a team. You will be a proactive, experienced healcare administrator who can work effectively in an autonomous role, while working closely with your team and Nurse Manager to provide support to consumers who use our service.
You will also have:
- administrative experience
- friendly and helpful individual and communication skills
- proven organisational skills and can work autonomously
- demonstratable ability to manage a range of administrative responsibilities, across a number of areas
- a quality focus whilst ensureing work is completed within the required timeframes
- standards in thoroughness, accuracy and speed
Benefits of working at Monash Health:
- salary packaging
- in office fintess centre
- on-site subsidised car parking
- Access to private health insurance, salary packaging and industry banking at competitive rates
For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please contact Tanya Clarke - Community Services Manager on 0438 320 295 or via email at Tanya.Clarke@monashhealth.org
Position Description can be found here
We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.
How to Apply
Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’
Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.
Applications close October 15th, 2025.
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