Make a Difference Behind the Scenes: Help Enable Better Mental Health Care.

Join Metro South Health’s Mental Health Intellectual and Developmental Disability (MHIDD) team and use your exceptional administration and coordination skills to support more inclusive, responsive and equitable mental health care for people with intellectual disability and complex neurodevelopmental needs.

About This Role

Your current role

As the dedicated administrative support for the MHIDD team, you will play a vital role in enabling efficient, high-quality and responsive mental health services across Metro South Health.

- Provide high-level administrative, coordination and service development support, including diary and meeting coordination, correspondence and document management, data entry, procurement and workforce administration.
- Exercise initiative, sound judgement and discretion to independently manage priorities, deadlines and incoming correspondence, while developing and maintaining effective administrative systems, templates and workflows.
- Prepare high-quality correspondence, briefing notes, reports, presentations and project documentation, and support education, training, quality improvement and service development activities through coordination, data collection, reporting and project tracking.

About You We are looking for a highly organised and proactive administration professional who brings initiative, sound judgement and a commitment to inclusive, person-centred service.

- Demonstrated experience providing high-level administrative support in a sensitive and professional environment,



with excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to prepare high-quality documentation for diverse stakeholders.
- Strong organisational, planning and problem-solving skills, with the judgement and initiative to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, adapt to change and work with a high degree of autonomy.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint and PowerPoint, together with the ability to develop and refine administrative systems in response to changing business needs.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials! What We Can Offer You

- We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
- We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with robust relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
- We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
- You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About Us Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:



Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses. We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

📌 Senior Administration Officer (Queensland)
🏢 Metro South Health
📍 Queensland