Mercy Community Aged Care Rockhampton supports and inspires people in need to live healthy lives within inclusive communities. With both residential facilities and community programs, Mercy offers a range of services and believe a big part of what we do is to help our residents and clients to flourish, knowing what is important to them and their individual needs. With a focus on person-centred care, you will support the team to provide a high level of quality care to the people we support.

As our new Administration Assistant, you will be responsible for preparing rosters that utilise staff to meet the needs of our various programs and clients.

$27.87 - $34.00 per hour plus superannuation plus generous salary packaging available based on experience.

What you’ll be doing

• Developing and maintaining the roster process, reducing errors and increasing efficiency including implementing a master roster system
• Allocate staff according to their skills, knowledge and style with clients
• Ensure all roster are staffed in accordance with legislative requirements
• Arrange replacement staff to cover planned and unplanned leave including liaising with labour hire companies
• General administration tasks such as updating client files, working the front desk, maintaining accurate records & timesheet entry and managing staff leave

About you:

• Previous experience with rostering and administration
• Good understanding of the application of industrial legislation and guidelines relating to shift work
• Ability to participate in rostered after hours on-call support as needed
• Experience in Home Care Manager or similar client record systems

Why Mercy Community

Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit, compassionately inspiring and supporting people to live hopeful, connected lives within inclusive communities. We support families and young people, people living with a disability, and older people, and live by our values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity and Empowerment. We have been providing services and support for over 150 years and our team operates across a network that encompasses urban, rural and remote communities.

Being part of the Mercy team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:

• Increase your take home pay through the use of generous salary packaging - up to $18,550 per annum is available
• Provide access to novated leases for a vehicle to help reduce your taxable income and other packaging benefits
• Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need – saving you up to $144 if you need both cards!
• Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services including specialised First Nations counsellors

Depending on your role, you may also be eligible:

• For annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
• To receive pay bonus’ of $500 for successful employee referrals
• To cash out or purchase annual leave and to take advantage of extra leave entitlements

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to a range of other career pathways and opportunities across Mercy.

Please note we may contact applicants prior to the closing date so do not delay in applying.

For any queries, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Scheduler / Administration Assistant - Rockhampton enquiry via EthicalJobs.