Salary Range: $70,632 - $75,875 + Attractive Superannuation
Open Arms - Veterans & Families Counselling (formerly VVCS) is Australia's leading provider of high quality mental health assessment and clinical counselling services for Australian veterans and their families. Open Arms are focused on meeting client needs through a combination of proven clinical practices and new and emerging evidence-based approaches.
A Service Support Officer provides the front line of customer service for clients accessing services from Open Arms Veterans and Families Counselling. This customer service is provided in person (at front reception) or via telephone. In addition, they provide operational and administrative support to the regional clinical service delivery staff to ensure quality services to the veteran and families community.
**Duties**
- Resolve client enquiries, provide information and options in accordance with policy and procedures, and refer to relevant service delivery team.
- Provide frontline administrative support and first point of contact to clients presenting for in-centre appointments including appointment management activities via the Client Management System.
- Provide administrative support in the coordination of regional events inclusive of group treatment and educative programs, internal meetings, and community based events.
- Provide administrative support across all service delivery streams inclusive of data entry, record keeping, and workflow tasks.
- Deliver correspondence both internally and externally related to client allocations, referrals, appointments, and service satisfaction.
- Provide administrative support to external referral platforms including contracted health providers and external stakeholders.
- Support the daily operations of the region including management of regional correspondence and deliveries, arranging travel, processing invoices, raising resource requests and responding to property and maintenance issues.
- Support the Assistant Practice Manager in reporting quality assurance and operational data.
- Support workplace practices in line with policies of Occupational Health and Safety, Workplace Diversity, the Australian Public Service Values and Employment Principles, and Code of Conduct.
**Eligibility**
- Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS).
- All applicants external to DVA offered employment will be required to successfully undergo a pre-engagement screening check, even if they have a security clearance. The screening check is conducted in accordance with the Australian Government Protective Security Policy Framework requirements.
**Notes**
Where a non-ongoing position is offered, the role will be filled for an initial specified term of up to18 months.
A merit pool of suitable applicants may be created which may be used to fill future ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies should they become available over the next 18 months.
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