At a Glance
- Tasks: Support operating theatres with clerical duties and assist the perioperative leadership team.
- Company: Join the Royal Melbourne Hospital, a leading healthcare provider.
- Benefits: Enjoy salary packaging, generous leave, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Work in the vibrant Parkville precinct with excellent transport options.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patients' lives while working in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Strong customer service skills and relevant clerical experience required.
Join the Perioperative Administration team at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, providing essential clerical support to the operating theatres and perioperative leadership team. Primarily based at theatre front reception, you’ll manage reception duties and assist the floor coordinator and other perioperative staff as needed, helping ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the service.
What you’ll be doing:
- Greeting visitors, answering phones and providing a professional, friendly front-of-house presence for the operating suite.
- Attending meetings and taking minutes, and liaising with theatre staff, hospital employees and company representatives.
- Managing staff lockers, theatre access, consumables, deliveries and maintenance requests.
- Admitting, transferring and discharging patients and providing clerical and basic IT support to perioperative staff and wards.
- Assisting the Theatre Floor Coordinator, auditing documentation, running reports and daily scanning and uploading of post-op documents to Epic.
About you:
- Strong customer service, communication and interpersonal skills, with a professional telephone manner.
- Relevant clerical or administrative experience, with confident computer skills, including Microsoft Office.
- Knowledge of medical terminology and a professional approach to your work.
- A proactive and reliable approach, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- A commitment to The Melbourne Way: People First, Lead with Kindness and Excellence Together.
- Knowledge of perioperative services.
- Experience using electronic medical record systems, preferably Epic and iPM.
Benefits of Working at RMH:
- Meaningful Work: Make a real difference in the lives of patients, families and our community.
- Career Growth: Access learning, development, and diverse career opportunities.
- Supportive Culture & Belonging: Join in a diverse and values-led organisation built on kindness, collaboration and inclusion.
- Innovation: Help shape the future of healthcare through research, technology and new models of care.
- World-Class Excellence: Work alongside leading healthcare professionals at one of Australia's premier public hospitals, within the Parkville Precinct—one of the world's leading biomedical and research precincts.
- Enjoy great employee benefits: Salary packaging of up to $12,000 tax free and generous leave entitlements, including additional annual leave and a monthly accrued day off for eligible full-time staff (role/EBA dependent).
- Work in the Parkville Precinct: Work in the Parkville precinct with excellent public transport, onsite parking options and access to staff health services.
Perioperative Clerk employer: Melbourne Health
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