AddressJob reference: 866080
Location: 5065 - GLENSIDE
Job status: Ongoing
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
- Central Adelaide Local Health Network
- Mental Health Services, Glenside
- Salary AHP-2 $86,950 - $100,729
- Permanent full-time
About the role
The Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) Mental Health Clinical Program is made up of a range of multidisciplinary teams providing recovery-focussed clinical services across acute, community and rehabilitation settings. The AHP2 Occupational Therapist is a member of the multi-disciplinary team at the Inpatient Rehabilition Service (IRS), located at Glenside Health Services, which provides rehabilitation and recovery-orientated treatment services, therapy and educative programs relating to complex and often treatment resistive mental health problems. The AHP2 Occupational Therapist is responsible for the delivery of evidence-based discipline-specific assessments, reports, consultation, individual and group rehabilitation interventions and discharge planning. The AHP2 Occupational Therapist partners with consumers, families, and carers to assist recovery through programs focusing on the regaining or development of skills in self-management, occupational functioning and social relationships. IRS collaborates closely with community mental health services, NDIS, and other government and non-government organisations in order to develop and implement clinical plans to reduce discharge barriers, maximise outcomes for consumers and support successful community tenure. This unique and exciting role provides opportunities to work with a diverse multi-disciplinary team inclusive of medical, nursing, psychology, social work, exercise physiology, art and music therapy and lived-experience staff.
Qualifications
Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
About CALHN
The Central Adelaide Local Health Network includes South’s Australia’s major quaternary facility, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, and the Repat Health Precinct. We also deliver mental health services at Glenside Health Services and at a range of other locations across the metropolitan and regional areas.
We’re looking for talented staff to join us and help us to shape the future of health through world-class care and world-class research and achieve our vision of being in the top 50 health services in the world and top 5 in Australia.
What we offer
- Attractive salary packaging available
- Strong community minded culture and values providing world class care to South Australians
- Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to CALHN staff and their families.
- Opportunity for movement across the SA Health system: There are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and your career at one of our many metropolitan or regional sites.
Essential Requirements:
Diversity and inclusion: At CALHN we support and foster a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.
Application Information:
- Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and compliant Immunisation screening.
Job ref: 866080
Enquiries to:
Karen Adams-Leask
***************@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
11:55 pm Friday 31 May 2024
Attachments
866080 RD Occupational Therapist .pdf
Australian applicant guidelines
International applicant guidelines
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.
