Administrative Assistant Child & Family

• Part-Time, 0.6-0.8 FTE, Ongoing
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

About the role

We are looking for a dynamic, highly organised person with a commitment to supporting the team of allied health clinicians in their work with pre-school aged children, carers and kindergarten services across inner and western Melbourne. The Administration Assistant provides an important role in supporting the provision of high-quality care and efficient management of service delivery. The position is responsible for a variety of administrative tasks including some aspects of service coordination and systems improvement.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Support Team with Administrative duties as requested
• Answer and direct phone calls, act as a point of contact for internal and external clients 
• Organise and schedules appointments
• Liaise with other providers relevant to clients to ensure efficient, appropriate, and coordinated care

What cohealth offers:

• Generous salary packaging options to suit you – tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation). Salary packaging reduces your cohealth taxable income, meaning you pay less tax on your cohealth income
• A generous rewards program from our salary packaging provider
• Exciting Parental leave benefits

• cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
• Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well

• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values).

Our ideal candidate:

• High School degree; additional qualification as an Administrative assistant or other preferred
• Proficiency with software programs including Excel
• Strong organisational skills and time management, with the ability to multitask and prioritise

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Statutory Declaration, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses). Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.

Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.