Human Resources Administration Officer

Permanent Part Time – 24 hours per week

Management & Administrative Officers Grade 2 ($33.78 per hour excluding allowances and salary packaging)

Our Human Resources Department is seeking an exceptional administrator to provide support to the Human Resources team. You will be our front facing point of contact, responsible for providing welcoming and professional service to all WGHG staff via online, phone and face to face contact.
Specific tasks include preparing various employment related paperwork, onboarding new staff, maintaining staff databases and other general data entry and administration duties.

This is a busy role and requires an ability to juggle multiple tasks and a varied workload.

This is a permanent term part time position of 24 hours per week, spread across 3 or 4 days, which would ideally include both Monday and Friday. This position is based at the Warragul Hospital site.  We offer a friendly, team focused work environment, comprehensive orientation to the department and organisation, and attractive benefits including salary packaging and free car parking. Further information is contained within the Position Description.

We are looking to hear from candidates who have the following skills & experience:

• A background in HR, Business Administration or Health Administration
• Superb customer service skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Experience working with a Human Resource Information Management Systems (HRIS) or similar customer/client database ; MS Office and other administrative software
• Outstanding organisational skills with the ability to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple tasks consecutively
• The ability to work well as part of a small professional team

IMPORTANT: All staff employed in the healthcare sector are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 – including a booster and 2023 Influenza (unless a valid exemption applies). Evidence of vaccination (or exemption) will be required to be provided prior to commencement. 

About our organisation

The West Gippsland Healthcare Group is a customer focused health organisation providing acute medical and surgical, obstetric, emergency, residential care and community health services to 45,000 people in the rural, urban residential, agricultural and industrial areas located within the Baw Baw Shire and beyond. The administrative headquarters are located at West Gippsland Hospital in Warragul, approximately 100kms east of Melbourne.

Working with us

All appointments with the West Gippsland Healthcare Group are subject to the satisfactory return of professional reference checks, a National Police Record Clearance and a current Employee Working with Children Check. All employees must hold current entitlement to work within Australia.  A six month probationary period applies to all new appointments.

Further details and how to apply

Applications must be lodged online via our recruitment portal (https://wghg.mercury.com.au) and must include; a resume; summary of how you meet the skill/experience listed in the 5 dot points above; and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role. Shortlisted applicants will be asked to provide at least 2 professional referees.

If you have any further queries, please contact Trav Jenkins, HR Manager on (03) 5623 0883 or Kylie McNair, HR Consultant on (03) 5622 6419.

Applications close on Monday 23rd October 2023. Please apply at your earliest convenience, shortlisting will commence prior to the closing date. 

 As an inclusive employer, we are committed to improving and promoting gender equality and encourage applications from all parts of our community, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, LGBTI people, and people with lived experience of disability.   

As a Child Safe organisation, West Gippsland Healthcare Group promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all children, including those with disability.