SA Health
Job reference: 946325
Location: 5041 - DAW PARK
Job status: Short Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone

- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Repat Health Precinct– Administrative Service
- Salary $66,442 - $69,504 p.a. (Pro Rata) ASO2 | Part Time Position, 15 Hours Per Week
- 12 Month Contract Until August 2027, with View to Permanency
- Shared 7Day roster, including day and evening shift times

Keep the CARE Service Running | Administrative Assistant

Join the CARE Service team as a part-time Administrative Assistant, playing a key support role within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. You'll keep the team organised and running smoothly — managing correspondence, records, scheduling, and enquiries in a busy tertiary hospital environment.

About the role:

Reporting to the Manager, this role is responsible for an productive, comprehensive, customer orientated administrative service is provided to the CARE service.

Duties for the role will include:

- Working collaboratively and flexibly within both the admin team and broader Rehab, Aged and Palliative Care team,
- Responding appropriately and promptly to incoming calls in line with documented procedures and guidelines,
- Ordering of consumables via Oracle and contribute to the management of Accounts Payable using Basware,
- Acting in a professional manner at all times when dealing with internal and external clients,
- Co-ordinating appointments using the Hospital Electronic Patient system (Sunrise EMR) in consultation with patients and staff,
- Creating new patient MRNs and checking existing patient demographics ensuring they are accurate and up to date,
- Working collaboratively to establish and uphold quality standards of practice, adapting to changing priorities and maintaining high-performance outcomes in a fast-paced setting.

About you:





- Ability to liaise and relate well with empathy to a variety of people, including elderly and disabled clients and to handle enquiries from a range of staff, patients and visitors,
- Demonstrated ability to work with people from diverse cultural backgrounds with specific reference to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people,
- Ability to undertake (or capacity to learn) data management, manipulation, extraction and minor systems development of Sunrise EMR,
- Previous experience using computing equipment and software (word processing, spreadsheets etc),
- Experience in the use of patient appointment making systems,
- Previous experience working in a health-related work setting,
- Previous experience working with confidential information

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

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Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Wednesday 2nd of September 2026

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Applicant Information:

- We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Clickto find out more about salary packaging.
- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the in the workplace.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 946325

Applications close: 02/09/2026 11:55 PM

Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

📌 Administrative Assistant - CARE Service (Adelaide)
🏢 Sa Health
📍 Adelaide