Compassion Meets Organisation – Join Our Palliative Care Team

Support a dedicated palliative care team delivering compassionate, patient-centred services across Metro South. This part-time Admin Officer role offers variety, meaningful work, and the opportunity to contribute to high-quality care in both hospital and community settings. This role is temporary up to 12 months and will be required to work across other MSPCS sites.

Job details

Your new role:

As an Admin Officer within the Metro South Palliative Care Service, you'll play a key role in ensuring smooth day-to-day operations across multiple care sites. Your work directly supports clinicians in delivering high-quality care to patients and families. In this role, you will:

• Provide accurate and timely administrative support including patient registration, scheduling, and documentation
• Maintain and manage patient records across multiple health information systems
• Support team operations through meeting coordination, minute taking, and general admin tasks
• Ensure office supplies and equipment are maintained for seamless service delivery

About you:

You are organised, compassionate, and thrive in a fast-paced healthcare environment where your work makes a real impact. You will bring:

• A strong administrative skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• A confident communication skills and a compassionate approach to patient interaction
• An ability to prioritise, work independently, and adapt in a changing environment
• A proficiency in Microsoft Office and the ability to learn healthcare systems quickly

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 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:

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)
  
  MS05681985 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)