Personal Assistant

Midwest Area Mental Health Service

• Full Time ongoing exciting opportunity to join the Midwest Area Mental Health Service
• Opportunity to actively participate in your own professional development
• Use your high-level administrative and office management skills
  

Your new team:

• The MWAMHS is service committed to working with mental health consumers during their recovery by offering holistic and evidence based treatment - inclusive of family and carers
• Our Harvester Clinic in Sunshine is made up of a dedicated, highly skilled team of clinicians and practitioners actively and collaboratively working together to provide the highest quality service to our consumers
• When you join our team, you have the opportunity to actively participate in your own professional development, engaging in available learning opportunities within the service and sharing your knowledge with your colleagues
• As the personal assistant you will be joining a supportive and ever-growing environment, where you will assist a dedicated team of professionals

Your new role:

• Provide administrative support to the Area Manager and Director of Clinical Service
• Provide high level administrative and office management support to the Area Manager and Director of Clinical Service
• Manage and maintain medico-legal and statutory portfolios
• Provide administrative support to meetings including managing diary appointments, setting agendas, reviewing meeting papers and preparing and circulating minutes
• Maintain digital records for ongoing meetings, general service documents, and projects
• Coordinate and arrange meetings, business activity and communications within the physical environment as required

About you:

• Demonstrate motivation, initiative and self-direction
• High level computing skills are required in all MS office software programs, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & Internet Explorer
• Advanced accurate typing skills with attention to detail
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and/or arithmetic, problem solving, administrative and communication skills both verbal and written
• Strong time management ability and organisational skills essential
• Capable of functioning semi-autonomously as well as an effective member of a team
• Responsible for work performed with a substantial level of accountability

Benefit of working with the Royal Melbourne Hospital/NorthWestern Mental Health:

Our service strives to create the best possible learning opportunities available to complement and support both emerging and existing expertise. Staff are required to actively participate in their own practice development by engaging in available learning opportunities within the service, as well as being committed to sharing their knowledge with their colleagues.

The RMH is proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.

Interested?

Please Note - recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable candidates are received

If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us for a confidential discussion.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are highly encouraged to apply.