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Salary- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Salary: AHP1 - $67,466 - $82,359 p.a. / AHP2 - $86,950 - $100,729 p.a. (Multiple Positions)
- Full-Time Ongoing and Temporary, up to 31 December 2024
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit Physiotherapists 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 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 and enthusiastic 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 a Physiotherapist within the Allied Health Division.
As a Physiotherapist you will be accountable to the Senior Manager of Physiotherapy for the provision of assessment and treatment services for inpatients and outpatients of NALHN, aiming to optimise health outcomes. In this role you will rotate through a series of clinical services.
Physiotherapists apply clinical experience, clinical knowledge and professional competence to plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive and integrated services to the needs of clients of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Physiotherapists at AHP1 classification work under direct clinical supervision and may provide direction and support to allied health assistants and students.
Physiotherapists at AHP2 classification work under limited direct clinical supervision and may provide direction and support to less experience therapists, allied health assistants and students.
In this role you will work collaboratively with the Allied Health multi-disciplinary team and liaise directly with medical, nursing staff of NALHN and with other community agencies.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold an 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 A (direct 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: 863391
Enquiries
Anna Brennan
Senior Manager, Physiotherapy
Phone: (08) 8182 9***
E-mail: ************@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
26 April 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
863391 - Physiotherapist - Rotating (Multiple Positions) - AHP1 - role description.pdf
863391 - Physiotherapist - Rotating (Multiple Positions) - AHP2 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.
