Medical Liaison Officer

SA Health
Job reference: 849235
Location: 5540 – PORT PIRIE
Job status: Ongoing
Eligibility: Open to Everyone

• Yorke and Northern Local Health Network, Port Pirie
• Salary: $66,590 – $70,968 p.a – Ongoing Full Time – ASO3

Overview

Yorke & Northern Region encompasses a wide range of hospitals in rural and remote areas of the Yorke Peninsula and the mid-north of SA. This position, based in the Region, provides administrative support to the Director Medical Services (DMS) in relation to his/her role within the Yorke & Northern Region.

Yorke & Northern Region is growing in size, catchment and complexity and is supported by an increasing number of salaried medical staff, VMO’s, junior doctors, visiting FFS doctors and locums.

The role of Medical Liaison Officer is to support the Executive Director Medical Services in strategically planning the development of positions, appointment and rostering of medical staff in a manner which will ensure the ongoing provision of high quality services in the Region’s Hospitals 24 hours per day.

The Medical Liaison Officer, reporting to the Executive Director Medical Services, has a key role in the effective staffing of medical services throughout the Region and the effective functioning of Medical Administration throughout the Yorke & Northern Region.

Eligibility

Applicants must have proven:

• experience in providing a confidential and professional administrative support service to executive level staff with efficiency and accuracy;
• extensive experience in providing accurate and professional administrative services to executive and committees including minute taking, preparing agendas and other relevant material and attending to relevant action items;
• experience in establishing and maintaining effective office systems and procedures;
• experience in undertaking minor research projects, including the compilation of data and the preparation of briefing documents and summary reports.

Important Information

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Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements.

Check(s)

• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category C (minimal client contact)

SA Health Services are required to implement the in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 849235.

Enquiries

Sam Burt
Medical Administration Coordinator
Phone: 8638 4407
E-mail:

Application Closing Date

Wednesday, 20th December 2023 – 11.55PM

Attachments

Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.