Position Details
Reference Number 161878
Position Title Service Desk Support Officer
Employment Status Permanent Full Time
Program SWARH
Location Portland
Salary $61,100.00
Hours Per Fortnight 80
Position Summary
  • Rewarding full time role – 80 hours per fortnight 
  • Located in Portland Victoria on the far South West Coast
  • Build your career, Gain invaluable experience

About the facility 

The South West Alliance of Rural Health (SWARH) is an alliance of public health agencies covering 33 physical sites in the South West of Victoria. SWARH connects all public acute hospitals and associated health service in the region through the delivery of information technology services. This enables each of the public acute hospitals and associated health services within the region to improve service delivery and gain returns on investment not possible on their own. Barwon Health is party to this unincorporated arrangement and therefore treats the arrangement as a join operation, taking a share of the operations to account. SWARH’s principal place of business is Ryot Street, Warrnambool Victoria, Australia.

About the role 

As the SWARH IT Service Desk Office you will be required to:

  • Provide excellent customer service and I.T support for our customers
  • Provide a high quality and informed focus for ICT development, performance and information at selected SWARH sites
  • Assist in the management of customer support in line with the overall SLA targets defined under the SWARH SLA agreement with our customers
  • Participate in continuous improvement activities in relation to customer support services for ICT related matters
  • Participate in meetings as part of the SWARH Customer Services Team and other organisational meetings as required
  • Participate in efficiency and innovation to provide better service outcomes for our customers
  • Contribute to engendering a culture of staff participation and empowerment to drive accountability for service delivery aligned to the SWARH strategic plan.

About the culture

We believe that working at Barwon Health is joining a culture where people strive to work to the full extent of their qualification, capability and experience with a working environment that enables this to happen.

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.

Selection Criteria Essential: Can you please list Barwon Health's values?
Essential: Can you please choose one of Barwon Health's values and describe a situation in the workplace where you have displayed this value?
Essential: Recent industry experience.
Essential: Excellent Customer Service Skills
Desirable: Tertiary qualification in Information Technology
Contact Person Adam Lamanna 
Contact Person Job Title Service Desk Officer - Portland 
Contact Number 0427 824 607 
Alternate Contact Person Leigh Davidson 
Alternate Contact Number 0437 313 308 
Closing Date 07/04/2020
Position Description
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Please note that this position will close at 11:45pm on closing date. Please ensure your application is added before then as we do not accept late applications.