Te Whatu Ora Southern Looking for Medical Secretary Booking Administrator – Surgical Services Administration at Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand Full Time

• Permanent opportunity
• Full Time 1.0FTE (40 hours per week)

Are you looking for a new challenge? We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Medical Secretary to join our friendly team in Southland Hospital on a full-time, permanent basis.

About The Role

This is a role that will enable you to demonstrate outstanding coordination skills and provide ample opportunities to use your initiative. This is a demanding role involving a number of administration tasks and interfacing with a large multidisciplinary team.

The Medical Secretary’s key purpose is to effectively contribute to the smooth running of the service by providing an efficient and timely administrative support function that is responsive and flexible to the changing needs of the service. Ensuring the patient journey through the service is as stress free as possible. This role is in a high-volume, fast-paced area and includes a lot of tasks that require you to be an all-rounder with stro9ng problem solving skills and good initiative.

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About You

We are looking for a team player with excellent communication skills and the ability to deal with a variety of people and tasks, often all at the same time! Your background will be in varied administration positions that demonstrate your ability to provide high quality administration services within a busy office setting. Previous hospital administration experience and familiarity with patient management systems will be a huge advantage but we will also consider applicants that can show us they have transferable skills from previous roles.

Our Successful Candidate Will Have

• Previous experience in a busy administrator role
• Excellent time management skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously
• Strong attention to detail, with a typing speed of at least 60wpm
• Respectful and professional nature handling confidential information

We offer a supportive and friendly team, and above all an excellent opportunity to learn new skills and develop your career. Apply now and tell us in your covering letter what skills you will bring to this role.

Mō mātou | About us

Te Whatu Ora – Southern has the largest geographical coverage of all the New Zealand regions, providing services to 350,000 people in diverse communities . We take pride in all the services we provide, and our aim is to improve, promote and protect the health of our region. We believe that our dedicated and passionate staff are a significant driving force behind the achievement of these standards, and we need more like-minded people to help us continue providing for our community.

Utu whānui |Salary range

This role belongs to the Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi Public Service Association (PSA) National Health Administration Workers Collective Agreement Band 5B between $71,932 to $74,951 pro rata dependant on relevant experience.

Rā mōnehu |Closing Date: 30 October 2023

Due to the fast-paced nature of what we do, our vacancy close dates may be subject to change. Don’t delay, make sure you apply as soon as possible.

Tono ināianei | Apply now

We only accept online applications. Please apply via our website: https://careers.southernhealth.nz/

For further information please contact Mikayla Hamilton, Recruitment Advisor, [email protected]

If you currently work for Te Whatu Ora- Health New Zealand – Southern , please apply for this role via our internal careers site, found here: Pulse > Applications > Corporate > SuccessFactors

Pre-Employment checks

In the interests of protecting our people and our patients, all appointments will be subject to:

• Occupational Health Assessment
• Police Vetting / Ministry of Justice safety checks
• Serious misconduct checks (previous Public Service departments and statutory Crown entities only)
• Covid-19 Vaccination is expected for all Workers at higher risk of workplace exposure to COVID-19 through face-to-face patient interaction, working in clinical areas and contact with potentially infectious materials and surfaces .