Administrative Officer - Director of Nursing

What you'll be doing

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.

The vision for nursing and midwifery at Sutherland Hospital is to build a united team that provides compassionate care to our community through transformational, supportive and holistic nursing and midwifery.
Provide a range high level administrative and clerical support services to the,

• Director of Nursing & Midwifery Services

Deputy Director of Nursing & Midwifery Services to enable them to achieve their objectives in a timely, reliable and efficient manner.

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.

All workers and new recruits are required to receive 2 doses of a Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccine to commence employment/ engagement or continue to work within a NSW Health service.

A worker and new recruit will be considered compliant if they have a medical contraindication to all available Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccines and provide medical contraindication evidence in line with the policy requirements.

In addition, all Category A workers and new recruits are required to receive one dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine annually to be considered compliant.

Category A workers and new recruits who are non-compliant with seasonal influenza vaccination or have a medical contraindication to influenza or COVID-19 vaccinations must comply with all other infection control risk reduction strategies as directed while working in a Category A position.

Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates

• Ability to perform a wide range of administrative tasks, while managing competing work priorities and work flow within allocated resources

• Experience in responding to a range of customer enquiries and determining the appropriate response in a complex work environment

• High level interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

• Demonstrated initiative and the ability to bring a creative approach to problem solving

• Ability to work independently and with a demonstrated capacity for effective teamwork

• Demonstrated commitment to providing quality service and quality improvement initiatives in workplace practices and procedures

• Demonstrated ability to transcribe minutes of meetings and present them as an accurate and meaningful record

• Experience in the use of Microsoft Office packages including Word and Outlook, and other software packages applicable to healthcare such as Content Manager, HealthRoster and StaffLink.