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• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Northern Mental Health – Various Locations
• Salary: $30.01 - $32.28 per hours + 25% loading – ASO2 – Casual Pool, up to 31 May 2025

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical (both elective and emergency), obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, mental health, oncology, geriatric medicine, palliative care and rehabilitation. Increasingly these are provided across a range of hospital, community and home-based settings.

NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

About You:

Are you dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

To succeed in this role, you will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

About the Role:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking compassionate and dedicated Administrative Support Officers to join our casual pool within Northern Mental Health.

As an Administration Support Officer, you will be part of a dynamic team providing administrative support to the Northern Mental Health Service. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring the smooth operation of the service, contributing to the delivery of high-quality mental health care to the community.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing exceptional customer service to clients, visitors, and staff
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date records and databases
• Coordinating appointment schedules and managing correspondence
• Assisting with various administrative tasks and projects as required

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.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.

Check(s):

• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (e.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)

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: 863064

Enquiries:

Madeline Layton

Administrative Services Coordinator

Phone: (08) 7485 4300

E-mail: madeline.layton@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date:

7 March 2025 – 11.55PM

Role Description:

 863064 - Administration Support Officer - Casual Pool - Northern Mental Health - ASO2 - role description.pdf

* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.