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Salary- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Wondakka Community Rehabilitation Centre – Elizabeth East
- Salary: $102,641 - $110,094 p.a. (pro rata) – AHP3; Temporary Part-Time – 22.50 hours per week, up until 1 May 2025
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit an Clinical Rehabilitation Coordinator 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 Clinical Rehabilitation Coordinator 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.
- 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 Mental Health Clinician 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 a Clinical Rehabilitation Coordinator within the Wondakka Community Rehabilitation Centre.
The Clinical Rehabilitation Coordinator is responsible for day-to-day coordination of clinical business and processes supporting delivery of Clinical Rehabilitation service within the Community Rehabilitation Centre (CRC), Wondakka with an emphasis on consumer outcomes, team performance and team culture.
As a part of the leadership team, the Clinical Rehabilitation Coordinator is an experienced mental health rehabilitation clinician who will support service delivery, ensure clinical practice in Wondakka is high quality, contemporary, evidence based and recovery focused.
Employees in this role accept accountability for the outcomes of Clinical Rehabilitation practice, for addressing inconsistencies between practice and policy and for developing team performance and a positive work culture in the interest of consumer outcomes.
The incumbent will:
- promote collaborative approaches with hospital and community-based services to ensure timely delivery of rehabilitation services and effective pathways of care.
- ensure Clinical Rehabilitation services in Wondakka interface effectively with community mental health services by working closely with Team Managers, Clinical Coordinators and Care Coordinators across the LHN as well as the Community Clinical Rehabilitation Coordinator.
- participate and contribute to the strategic and operational management of the sector as directed by the Team Manager.
- promote consumer centred services through proactive partnerships with consumers and the Lived Experience Workforce
- as a specific portfolio responsibility, provide leadership for development and maintenance of effective partnership arrangements with other agencies and services, including government and NGOs, building capacity in the sector and assisting CMHT consumers develop strengths and skills for living a full and meaningful life.
To be eligible for this position, you must have:
ESSENTIAL MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Educational/Vocational Qualifications
- An appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with Occupational Therapy of Australia, or
- An appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers, or
- Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology or equivalent qualification recognised by the PsyBA and general registration with PsyBA with an endorsed area of practice in Clinical Psychology.
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 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: 863693
Enquiries
Erin Law
Team Manager
Phone: 0412 022 ***
E-mail: ********@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
26 April 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
Role Description
863693 - Clinical Rehabilitation Coordinator - AHP3 - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information
