*Employment Type:*
Permanent Full Time, 38 Hours Per Week
*Location:*
Liverpool Hospital
*Position Classification:*
Administration Officer Level 4
*Remuneration:*
$ $ per annum
*Requisition ID:*
REQ602593
*Application Close Date:*
28/09/2025
*Interview Date Range:*
01/10/2025 – 08/10/2025
*Contact Details:*
Maree Cain | |
Suitable candidates are deemed to have a skill test.
About The Opportunity
Step into a role where compassion meets precision, and every day brings the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. As the cornerstone of the Liverpool Palliative Care Department's operations, you'll provide high-level secretarial support to a team of dedicated specialists, coordinate vital meetings, and manage complex patient scheduling with grace and empathy. From liaising with grieving families to orchestrating travel for international conferences, your work will blend diplomacy, organisation, and heart in equal measure.
This is more than just administration—it's about being the pulse of a department that delivers care at life's most delicate moments. You'll be the go-to resource for staff across Liverpool Cancer Services, navigating hospital systems with ease, retrieving critical medical literature, and ensuring every detail—from policy updates to TESL applications—is handled with excellence. If you thrive in a dynamic, multi-skilled environment and bring both warmth and efficiency to your work, this is your chance to be part of something truly extraordinary.
This is more than just administration—it's about being the pulse of a department that delivers care at life's most delicate moments. You'll be the go-to resource for staff across Liverpool Cancer Services, navigating hospital systems with ease, retrieving critical medical literature, and ensuring every detail—from policy updates to TESL applications—is handled with excellence. If you thrive in a dynamic, multi-skilled environment and bring both warmth and efficiency to your work, this is your chance to be part of something truly extraordinary.
What You'll Be Doing
To assist the Medical and Nursing staff by carrying out all clerical and reception duties associated with the position to a high standard. Display a professional manner and high level of customer service. Maintain relevant ward/unit administrative systems.
*Where You'll Be Working*
Liverpool Hospital, founded in 1813, is the major health service for south-western Sydney, offering a wide range of state-wide services including critical care and trauma, neonatal intensive care, and brain injury rehabilitation. As a key teaching facility for UNSW Sydney and Western Sydney University, it provides extensive clinical services, including emergency care, cancer treatment, paediatrics, and mental health services. The hospital features 23 operating theatres and has a capacity for 877 beds.
The ongoing $830 million redevelopment as part of the Liverpool Health and Academic Precinct is transforming the hospital into a global hub for medical innovation. This redevelopment will expand clinical services, enhance research and teaching facilities, and introduce state-of-the-art equipment and amenities.
Working at Liverpool Hospital means being part of a forward-thinking, innovative team dedicated to providing exceptional patient care. The hospital's commitment to education and research offers numerous opportunities for professional development and career progression.
The vibrant and supportive work environment, combined with the hospital's central location near public transport and local amenities, makes it an ideal place to grow your career while making a meaningful impact on the community.
How To Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
* Describe your experience providing high-level secretarial and administrative support in a healthcare or executive setting. Please include details of your qualifications (e.g. Medical Terminology certificate), your typing speed, Dictaphone transcription skills, and your proficiency with hospital-based systems such as Cerner, Powerchart, Mosaiq, BEIMS, and HPRM.
* Provide examples that demonstrate your ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a diverse range of stakeholders including patients, families, and clinical staff. How have you managed sensitive or confidential information in accordance with health privacy principles?
* Outline your experience managing complex scheduling tasks, preparing high-level correspondence, and coordinating administrative processes with minimal supervision. How do you prioritise competing demands, and what strategies do you use to ensure accuracy and timeliness in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary team?
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Additional Information
*Salary Packaging*
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
*Health & Fitness*
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
*To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don't just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
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