Clinical Genetics Administration Officer

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About Us

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.

Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.

An exciting opportunity has opened up on a Permanent (Full Time or Part Time) basis within the Genetics department at Nepean Hospital. The position would be based on core hospital business hours to ensure appropriate service delivery.

The successful incumbent will provide administrative support to facilitate the overall effective and efficient operation of Clinical Genetics services and the multidisciplinary team. Within this role, you will manage reception and incoming phone enquiries, medical transcription typing, accurate data entry into patient administration systems and managing the hybrid medical record.

If you would like to work within a multidisciplinary team and expand your knowledge and skills, please apply!
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees

· Accrued Day Off (ADO) – full time employees

· Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging

· Novated Leasing

· Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year

· Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members

· Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here .

For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.

What you will bring to the role

1. Ability to undertake more complex administrative tasks in support of senior officers and the broader work area, applying independent action within established work practices and procedures, working under general instruction and broad supervision
2. Respond to a range of enquiries (in person and over the phone) providing information and triaging enquiries to clinical staff in a confidential, effective and responsive manner
3. Attention to detail with demonstrated efficiencies in processing clinical correspondence and uploading information into electronic patient records
4. Demonstrated high level organisational skills and ability to prioritise competing demands to ensure timely completion of work
5. Experience managing paper medical records including manually filing in terminal digit order, updating tracking location in Patient Administration System (PAS) (E.g. Trakgene). Whilst ensuring clinical notes are filed in sequential order under correct sectional divider.
6. Demonstrated competency in medical transcription typing, with a minimum speed of 50 wpm and 99% accuracy

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