Physiotherapy Clinical Service Manager – Acute Care

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin & Modbury Hospitals – Elizabeth Vale & Modbury
• Salary: $102,641 - $110,094 p.a. – AHP3 - Temporary Full-Time, up until 30 June 2025

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit an experienced Hospital Physiotherapist with Leadership Skills to contribute to our dynamic, growing and supportive team, and 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 Physiotherapy Leader looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality acute hospital services? 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 lead a team to 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 in the Physiotherapy leadership team as a Clinical Service Manager within the Allied Health Division, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

The Physiotherapy Clinical Service Manager - Acute Care is responsible for hospital service team leadership resulting in the development, implementation, coordination and evaluation of quality Physiotherapy services for patients of NALHN across a range of Hospital inpatient clinical areas. The Physiotherapy Acute Service Manager provides professional leadership, guidance and coordination to support the NALHN Physiotherapy Department, and in collaboration with the Senior Manager of Physiotherapy ensures appropriate professional governance and compliance across the department.

Working in conjunction Senior Physiotherapists and collaboratively with other health professionals the Physiotherapy Clinical Service Manager optimises Physiotherapy team functioning, service coordination and service delivery outcomes, to provide a service that positively impact on client health outcomes. As a skilled and competent Physiotherapist, you will deliver quality acute hospital Clinical Services and provide line management for staff within your area of responsibility.

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: 847781

Enquiries

Anna Brennan

Senior Manager Physiotherapy

Phone: 0477 343 ***

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

Application Closing Date

3 May 2024 - 11.55PM

Attachments

 847781 - Physiotherapy Clinical Service Manager - Acute Care - AHP3 - role description.pdf

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