Adolescent Ward Clerk

at  SA Health

Job no: 891947
Work type: Full time
Location: Adelaide CBD

Categories: Administration, Business and Management

• Women’s and Children’s Health Network, Division of Paediatric Medicine, North Adelaide (5006)
• Salary/Classification - ASO2 - Administrative Services Officer L2 - $58,709 to $63,154

ABOUT US

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.
Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.
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We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Paediatric Medical Wards team as a Adolescent Ward Clerk, where you will be responsible for:

• Providing a friendly and professional front-line ward service to the department.
• Maintaining and preparing patient files/folders/noticeboards for admissions.
• Liaising regularly throughout the day with the shift coordinator, NUM/ANUM and ward staff regarding patient movements, admissions, discharges, and appointments as required.
• Maintaining accurate patient data on all patient information systems, for example SUNRISE and OACIS.
• Providing an administrative assistant support service to the Nurse Unit Manager and other staff as required, e.g. word processing, minute taking.
• Attending to, screening and appropriately directing telephone calls

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Previous administrative / clerical experience and familiarity with the use of windows and Microsoft Office products, e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.
• Provide a consultancy and advisory service to management and staff at all levels to establish and maintain both integrity and confidentiality in dealing with issues of a sensitive nature.
• Work independently and under limited direction to meet deadlines and achieve agreed outputs whilst working with demanding and sometimes competing priorities.
• The ability to work effectively in a team and being able to communicate, both verbally and in writing, to a wide range of people on a range of sensitive and complex issues.
• Ability to deal with situations, staff and patients with maturity and empathy.
• Good working knowledge of Medical Terminology