• Provide high quality administrative support to the hospital General Manager
• Full Time – 38 Hours per week

UnitingCare Health is one of the largest not-for-profit private hospital groups in Queensland and is a service group of UnitingCare Queensland. The hospital group is a major provider of healthcare services in Queensland which operates almost 1000 licensed hospital beds and employs over 4200 people.

St Stephen's Hospital in Hervey Bay is Australia's first fully integrated digital hospital. With 96 patient beds, the state-of-the-art ‘hospital of the future’ provides vital medical and surgical services to the Fraser Coast and is the first hospital in Australia to showcase the future of how technology can transform the healthcare experience. As a registered charity and not-for-profit facility, St Stephen’s is committed to re-investing surplus funds for the development of the hospital, its services and its employees.

The Executive team are seeking an experienced and passionate Executive Assistant to join their team. Responsible for providing confidential, high quality administrative support to the General Manager, this role plays a key role in the organisation of the hospital Executive team. 

Ideally, the successful applicant will demonstrate the following criteria: 

• Demonstrated experience in managing the administration of a busy executive office including minute taking, filing, arranging meetings, appointments and travel and maintaining electronic diaries;
• Demonstrated experience working in a medical environment (e.g. medical practice, etc.), desirable;
• Computer literacy skills at an advanced level, including Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook, with excellent numeracy and data entry skills;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to liaise with a wide range of hospital staff;
• Ability to handle all levels of enquiries with efficiency, tact and discretion and initiate appropriate actions as required;
• Proved ability to meet deadlines, set priorities and work on multiple tasks;
• Proven ability to work autonomously and within a team environment;
• General accounting and bookkeeping skills an advantage. 

UnitingCare Health is committed to being a child safe, child friendly organisation for all children who come into contact with our services. It is our expectation that our employees will share in this commitment.  Therefore, employees and successful candidates in specified roles will be required to hold a valid ’Blue Card’ in line with the ’Working with Children Check’ requirements.

Criminal record checks will be conducted for all successful candidates.

Working as part of the UnitingCare Health at St Stephen’s Hospital, our staff enjoys a values based organisation with benefits including:

• Friendly values based environment;
• Generous salary packaging options;
• Exciting career paths in both clinical and leadership streams;
• Flexible working arrangements.

For more information regarding this opportunity please contact Amanda Cruwys, General Manager on 07 4120 1395.

To apply for this opportunity, please click on the 'Apply' button below to be taken to our online application process and quote the following reference number – 11790.

We look forward to receiving your applications by 14th February 2017.