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Make a Meaningful Impact - Admin Officer, Palliative Care

Join SA Health as a Part-time Admin Officer in Palliative Care at Flinders Medical Centre, where you will provide essential administrative support to compassionate healthcare team caring for patients and families during life's most important moments. This ongoing role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference while maintaining excellent work-life balance within South Australia's leading health network. You will coordinate appointments, maintain records, and support quality care delivery in a sensitive and rewarding healthcare environment.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Manager of Community Palliative Care, this role is responsible for ensuring an efficient, comprehensive, customer orientated administrative service is provided for the Palliative Care Service.

Duties for the role will include:

• Screening telephone calls and using initiative to determine action,
• Managing enquiries from patients or carers, other staff members and external agencies,
• Ordering stationery,
• Maintaining office machines/ordering consumables,
• Collate/format/distribute Department weekly newsletter,
• Familiarising with the major aspects of other positions within the service,
• Assisting other administration staff and providing short-term leave relief,
• Acting in a professional manner at all times when dealing with internal and external clients,
• Assisting with documentation to be sent to Human Resources,
• Liaise with internal and external services

About you:

• Professional and personal pride in work quality
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple demands,
• Flexible and adaptable to change
• Ability to liaise and relate well with empathy to a variety of people, including elderly and disabled clients and to handle enquiries from a range of staff, patients and visitors,
• Administrative duties experience,
• Proven experience in providing an administrative service to a defined service area, preferably in health,
• Experience in the use of patient appointment making systems, Sunrise, and Microsoft Office suite

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Emma Dubrich, Director Allied Health & Manager Community Palliative Care, 0421 700 119, Emma.Dubrich@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 19 April 2026

Attachments:

• ASO2 Admin Role Description - M62892
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• 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.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 933552