Lead the Team Behind Exceptional Patient Care

Join a busy and supportive Ophthalmology Department where your leadership, organisation and people skills will help keep critical healthcare services running smoothly. This is an exciting opportunity to supervise an administration team while supporting senior nursing staff in a fast-paced hospital environment.

Job details

Your new role:

As the Office Manager within the Ophthalmology Department, you will play a key role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day operation of the unit while supporting nursing leadership and supervising administration staff.  Working in a fast-paced healthcare environment, you'll coordinate workflows, manage rostering processes and help maintain exceptional service delivery standards for both patients and staff.

Your Key Responsibilities are to provide,

• Leadership and supervision of the administration team, support staff performance, development and daily operations
• Coordination of nursing rosters, leave management, payroll support and workforce administration processes
• High-level administrative and secretarial support to the Nurse Unit Manager and wider clinical team
• The central point of contact for departmental communication, customer enquiries and operational coordination

About you:

ou are an organised and proactive administration professional with strong leadership capability and a commitment to delivering high-quality customer service.  You enjoy working collaboratively, managing competing priorities and supporting teams in a healthcare environment.

You will have,

• Previous experience supervising or coordinating administrative teams
• Strong organisational, rostering and workforce coordination skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Ability to work autonomously, solve problems and manage competing deadlines

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 strong 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:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

 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.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS05682586 - Role Description (PDF)