**Job no**: 881987
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Southern
**Categories**: Administration and Clerical
- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - Flinders Medical Centre - Division of Surgical and Perioperative Medicine
- Salary $58,709 - $63,154 p.a. (Pro Rata) ASO2| 15 hours p/w, contract available until December 2025
**Become a Key Player in Exceptional Patient Care: Unit Secretary Opportunity at SA Health**
Serving as the Unit Secretary for the HepatoPancreatoBiliary, Colorectal, GI Surgery and Liver Transplant specialties, you will act as the crucial communication link, facilitating interactions between various units, the hospital, university, patients, and external agencies. Your primary responsibilities will involve providing invaluable administrative and secretarial support to medical staff within the clinical units, while ensuring a highly organized and efficient office environment.
**About the role**:
Working as the Unit Secretary, some of your duties may involve:
- Providing a high level of administrative clerical support to the Unit by maintaining up to date filing systems, attending to facsimile communications, maintenance and repairs to office equipment, mail opening and distribution.
- Arranging Medical Staff appointments and Registrars' rotations in conjunction with Human resources and Trainee Medical Officer (TMO) Unit.
- Providing a confidential and professional secretarial and typing service including correspondence, medico-legal reports and patient letters, to the Unit. This will include acting as the point of reference for those requiring access - particularly patients, relatives, resident staff, consultants, general practitioners, company representatives, solicitors and members of the public.
**About you**:
- Possess drive and initiative to further educate and learn within the role.
- Possess a high level of organisational and communication (written and verbal) skills.
- High level of typing skills (50-60 wpm) and able to perform high quality, accurate data entry.
- Demonstrated use of Microsoft Office products (e.g. Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel).
- Previous experience in the provision of a confidential secretarial, typing and reception service.
- Experience in customer service role and in general administrative activities.
Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.
**Application Closing Date**:11.55 pm Wednesday 23rd October 2024
**Attachments**:
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**Applicant Information**:
- We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref**:881987**
**Advertised**: 09 Oct 2024 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 23 Oct 2024 Cen. Australia Daylight Time