Allied Health Acute Aged Care Coordinator

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
• Salary: $112,625 - $122,610 p.a. – AHP4 - Temporary Full-Time, up until 30 June 2024 

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to work in our dynamic, growing and supportive team, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.

About Us:

Located on Kaurna Country, in the North and North-Eastern Suburbs of Adelaide, close to the world-famous Barossa Valley wine region, and within 30 minutes of the CBD, NALHN serves more than 400 000 people at the Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals, along with our state-of-the-art Specialist Ambulatory Rehabilitation Centre and our community and home-based sites. The network boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways. 

Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:

“My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care”

“I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service”

“I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support”

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

In addition this, other benefits of working as an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist in NALHN include:

• Professional development opportunities. We have a well established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and staff are also eligible  for external, funded professional development via the Allied Health Professionals Plus Professional Development Reimbursement Program, to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations; 
• Opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research; and
• Regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals.

About You:

Are you a dedicated, compassionate, enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

About the Role:

An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as an Allied Health Acute Aged Care Coordinator within the Allied Health Division.

The Allied Health Acute Aged Care Coordinator is accountable to the Director Clinical Operation Allied Health NALHN for:

• Providing an expert clinical complex / case coordination / consultative service to wards, units and departments in facilitating integrated assessment, care planning, service delivery and discharge coordination of eligible aged patients.
• Working with the broader nursing, medical and Allied Health treating team to facilitate early identification of aged consumers who would benefit from comprehensive care planning inclusive of behaviour management, mobility and diversional programs.
• Act as a NALHN aged / dementia / behaviours of concern expert, inclusive of building effective working relationships with relevant community agencies their partners, relevant non-government organisations and the Department of Health and Wellbeing.
• Monitor and escalate client system issues and discharge delays whilst working with the broader nursing, medical and Allied Health treating team to support acute inpatients and facilitate a smooth transition to residential care facilities complex situations and backgrounds requiring time limited case coordination, comprehensive assessment, and tailored supports to achieve a safe and sustainable discharge, avoiding unnecessary hospital representation.

In this role you will be an expert within your area and stream of practice and have a significant degree of autonomy and decision making.

To be eligible for this position, you must hold:

• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with Occupational Therapy Australia OR
• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia.

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.

Check(s)

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. Aged Care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job Ref: 857622

Enquiries

Melissa Pearse

Allied Health Facilitator

Phone: (08) 8182 9***

E-mail: **************@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

23 February 2024 - 11.55PM

Attachments

 857622 - Allied Health Acute Aged Care Coordinator - AHP4 - role description.pdf

* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.