Director Clinical Operations - Allied Health

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
• Salary: $125,464 - $137,222 p.a. – AHP5 – Temporary Full-Time up until 13 September 2024 

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit a Director Clinical Operations 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 a Director Clinical Operations 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 and Experienced Allied Health Professional 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 Director Clinical Operations within the Allied Health Division.

The Director Clinical Operations - Allied Health will provide leadership within the Network for priority areas of change management and reform, working closely with relevant Clinical Division. The Director Clinical Operations - Allied Health will be responsible for contributing to the development and implementation of strategies to meet the health needs of the Network’s population in conjunction with the Clinical Directorates.

The Director Clinical Operations - Allied Health reports directly to the Executive Director Allied Health (EDAH) and plays a key a role in translating strategy into operations in conjunction with the DAH and the Discipline Senior Managers, working closely with stakeholders in the Clinical Directorates.

The Director Clinical Operations - Allied Health has four key areas of responsibility:

• Leadership and delivery of key operational objectives and priorities for Allied Health within the Allied Health and Outpatient Department (AHOD) division.
• Leadership and management of Allied Health credentialing processes
• Leadership and management of information management activities for Allied Health
• Leadership and support of network-wide research / innovation activities for Allied Health

The Director Clinical Operations - Allied Health is a core member of the NALHN Allied Health management team and state-wide Allied Health leadership team and will work collaboratively with other LHN Directors/Advisors of Allied Health and the Chief Allied and Scientific Health Advisor, SA Health.

The Director Clinical Operations - Allied Health works as part of a multi-professional change team to develop new services and to prioritise service delivery according to the SA Health Strategic Plan 2017-2020 and Allied Health strategic and operational plans.

The Director Clinical Operations will work with the Executive Director of Allied Health to ensure frameworks and plans are in place across NALHN that:

• Encourage the advancement and integration of Allied Health professions in line with health units, NALHN, state-wide and national policies.
• Support core principles of consumer participation, clinical effectiveness, workplace innovation and management of risk.
• Identify and address key workforce issues in NALHN and participate in planning and implementation of Network-wide workforce solutions, promoting a culture of excellence and positive workforce management.

In this Role you will support and assist in driving achievement of health unit, NALHN and state-wide key performance indicators.

A critical part of the position is to build relationships with and influence key stakeholders by working closely with the Northern Adelaide Executive Director Allied Health, Co-Directors of Directorates, Directors of programs, professional / discipline Managers, and other relevant stakeholders.

Currently Allied Health incorporates the following professions and references to Allied Health that follow relate to: Audiology, Dietetics, Exercise Physiology, Occupational Therapy, Orthotics and Prosthetics, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Psychology, Social Work, Speech Pathology, Allied Health assistant and adjunct roles.

To be eligible for this position, you must have Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification for one of the following Allied Health disciplines working in the service, specifically:

• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia.
• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of Speech Pathology Australia.
• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA).
• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration with the Podiatry Board of Australia.
• Appropriate Degree (master’s in clinical or health Psychology) or equivalent qualification as recognised by the PsyBA and general registration with PsyBA.
• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification, usually in human movements, inclusive of the exercise physiology elective and eligible for accreditation from Exercise Sports Science Australia (ESSA).
• Appropriate degree and or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for Association membership with the Audiological Society of Australia.
• Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification of Prosthetics and Orthotics. Eligibility for membership of the Australian Orthotic Prosthetic Association is desirable.

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: 858367

Enquiries

Sandra Parr

Executive Director of Allied Health

Phone: (08) 8182 9***

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

Application Closing Date

23 February 2024 - 11.55PM

Attachments

 858367 - Director Clinical Operations - AHP5 - Role Description.pdf

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