• Casual Administrative Reliever position at Barwon Health Norths brand new facility expected to open January 2020
• Work with an innovative multidisciplinary team in new state of the art facilities
• If you have a friendly disposition, and are capable of working in a team environment please apply now and join our team.

About the facility 

Barwon Health is one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in Australia, providing care at all stages of life and circumstance. Health services available through Barwon Health cover the full spectrum from primary care, community services, aged care, rehabilitation, mental health, emergency and acute care. There are approximately 7000 staff across 24 locations, including University Hospital, McKellar Centre, Community Health Centres, Alan David Lodge and Barwon Health North.

Barwon Health North is a brand new two story facility located in the Northern Suburbs of Geelong to provide a state of the art flexible health facility to meet the growing needs of the community.

Barwon Health North will provide accessible healthcare close to home and to public transport bridging the gap between the acute settings at the University Hospital Geelong by providing the following services

• Urgent Care Services
• Medical Imaging
• Child and Family Services
• Healthy at Home (Chronic and Complex Care)
• Dialysis
• Specialist Clinics

About the role 

The Receptionist at Barwon Health North will ensure that all administrative functions support each patient’s journey of access and patient centred care with a high standard quality in line with the organisational values.

Duties of the role include but are not limited to:

• Providing information to customers promptly and in an easily understood form and that is accurate, current and complete
• Assisting any visitors with general enquiries whist ensuring that the waiting area in maintained as comfortable as possible for visitors to the centre.
• Undertake the day to day administration duties of the assigned area including, banking, site issues, data entry, DMR scanning, risks and improvements.
• Develop self-improvement plan in consultation with the Clerical Supervisor to ensure continuous improvement goals are achieved.

About the culture

The Northern Suburbs is both dynamic and challenging environment; where staff draw on a large scope of practice and need to be able to think outside the square to work with some of our client cohorts. The possibilities to be innovative are endless. 

There is a strong and supportive team culture in our current services at Corio, which will align and integrate with those being delivered at Barwon Health North. Working together across a range of disciplines staff have a focus on clients and their health improvement or improving self-management skills to enhance  living with chronic illness. Our team culture can be best described as forward striving, involved, empathetic and innovative.

There is a strong alignment to Barwon Health values in our team and as a staff member of our team, you will be part of the culture that lives the values. That is to enable all of the team and clinicians own professional goals to be met in a supportive and accountable environment. Our leadership team understand the challenges at the coalface and we will work side by side with all staff to find solutions.  

Barwon Health staff benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Salary packaging
• Social club

At Barwon Health we harness a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We will embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.

Our organisation promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of our staff and consumers including children, and have appropriate recruitment resources in place to ensure background checks and reference checks are completed.

At Barwon Health we are committed to providing positive employment opportunities and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.

We Barwon Health is proud to be Totally Smoke Free.