Allied Health Assistant

SA Health
Job reference: 865724
Location: 5112 - ELIZABETH
Job status: Long Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - GP Plus - Elizabeth and Modbury
• Salary: $57,842 - $62,221 p.a.

- AHA2 - Temporary Part-Time - working 33.75 hours per week, up to 30 June 2025Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit an Allied Health Assistant 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 to this, other benefits of working as an Allied Health Assistant in NALHN include:

• Professional development opportunities. We have a well established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training. Additionally, Intermediate Care Service Allied Health Assistants are involved in local training and development activities led by local clinicians as well as external providers.
• 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 and enthusiastic Allied Health Assistant 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.About the Role:An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as an Allied Health Assistant within the Intermediate Care Services team.The Allied Health Intermediate Care Service (ICS) comprises of Dietetics, Exercise Physiology, Occupational Therapy, Podiatry, Physiotherapy, Social Work and interdisciplinary complex self-management support services, operating as an intermediate service between hospital admission and community-based supports. Our team works collaboratively with a focus on optimising functional and health outcomes and reducing hospital admissions for clients with Diabetes, Chronic Cardiac and Respiratory Conditions, and vulnerable people with other chronic conditions. At ICS we aim to meet the needs of the client and “together, we connect with people living with chronic conditions to live the life they choose”.The Allied Health Assistant is operationally and professionally accountable to the Senior Manager Intermediate Care Services and reports clinically to their designated clinical supervisor on a day to day basis, to:

• Work collaboratively with members of the ICS team, administrative staff, students, clients and internal and external stakeholders.
• Work under the delegation of AHP staff to provide high quality clinical and non-clinical services.
• Manage a busy workload, with multiple competing priorities across multiple disciplines within the same team.
• Work with clients/carers/families to support clients to achieve their goals.

Duties may include, but not necessarily be limited to (depending on service requirements and or AHP supervision format):

• Assisting in group exercise classes as well as some 1:1 exercise based therapy under the direction of Physiotherapists and Exercise Physiologists.
• Monitoring patient response to therapies and reporting to the supervising AHP.
• Applying screening assessments, treatments and use standardised assessment tools to initiate changes to treatments under the direction of AHP staff.
• Providing basic education to patients/groups of patients as directed by AHP staff on discreet topics.
• Completing stock auditing and ordering using Oracle and Basware systems.
• Completing phone follow up regarding equipment and modifications on behalf of the Occupational Therapist.

To be eligible for this position, you must hold or be undertaking a Certificate 3 in Allied Health Assistance or equivalent.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 A (direct contact with blood or body substances)SA Health Services are required to implement the in the workplace.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 865724EnquiriesAllied Health FacilitatorPhone: (08) 8182 9354E-mail: Health.AlliedHealthFacilitator@sa.gov.auApplication Closing Date12 July 2024 - 11.55PMAttachments

• Refer to the SA Health Career Website - for further information.

Flexibility Statement
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.