Administration Manager, Health Manager Level 1 - ESMHS

Administration Manager, Health Manager Level 1 - Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 1
Remuneration: $91,326.00 - $121,497.00 per annum, plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ680745
Location: Randwick, Sydney

Applications close date: 23 August 2026

The SESLHD Mental Health Service is a specialised clinical service, providing care to a local population of over 930,000 residents in the Sydney metropolitan area.  We provide care within both hospital and community settings to support people living with mental illness at times when acute intervention is needed, or to remain well in their community and lead their own recovery.

Learn more about us here: South Eastern Sydney Local Health District

The Role

An exciting opportunity exists for an engaged and suitably experienced health services manager to join and help lead our busy and challenging administration team, supporting clinicians who are making a difference in the lives of mental health consumers and their families - sound like you?

The Administration Manager is to coordinate and manage the day-to-day provision of a high quality administrative service to support the objectives of the Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service. Responsibilities include ensuring procedures are in place to allow administrative work to be completed accurately and on time, coordinating and managing administrative function for complaints/HCCC/Ministerial, recruitment, records management and purchasing. In collaboration with the Administration Supervisors, the position is to ensure supervision of all administrative staff within the Service including coordination of human resources, work allocation, staff appraisals and staff development. The position is primarily based at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick. However, travel across the Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service for line management of staff is required of the position.  

• Financial benefits - Salary packaging options - Up to $9K for living expenses, $2.6K meal & entertainment, and Novated Leasing. Discounted Private Health Insurance.
• Work-life balance - Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
• Professional growth - Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning.
• Health & wellbeing - Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.

Are you ready to join us?

We are excited to learn more about you and your experience. As part of the application process, we invite you to respond to the following targeted questions:

1. Describe your experience leading and managing an administrative team. Include examples of staff recruitment, training, performance management, conflict resolution, staff development and implementing improvements to administrative processes or systems.
2. Provide an example of how you have coordinated administrative services in a busy environment with competing priorities and limited resources. How did you organise workloads, allocate resources, meet deadlines and maintain service quality?

3. Describe your experience using administrative, payroll, rostering, records management or business systems to support operational objectives. Include an example of a report, correspondence, process improvement or business outcome you developed using these systems.
 
How to Apply
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Application close: 23 August 2026

For more information we encourage you to contact Hannah Allen on Hannah.Allen@health.nsw.gov.au

Interviews are expected to be held between 31 August 2026 and 4 September 2026

Once you apply, we’ll keep you up to date on how your application is progressing. We encourage applications from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Need more information? 
  1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
  2) Find out more about applying for this position
 

Our values and commitment to diversity

Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.

We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplaces are welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristic including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and social-economic status. Read about our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy for more information.

Reasonable Adjustments

NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email SESLHD-Recruitment-MentalHealth@health.nsw.gov.au and let us know.

Information for applicants:

• An eligibility list may be created for future Permanent Full Time positions
• Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing
• Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained withing the position description
• Recommended applicants will be reviewed or compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer.
• We do have an Aboriginal Workforce Team that can also provide support (SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website