Senior Acute Program Manager

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
• Salary: $112,625 - $122,610 p.a. (pro rata) – AHP4 - Temporary Part-Time – 22.5 hours per week, up until 13 September 2024.

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit an Senior Acute Program Manager 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, other benefits of working as a Senior Acute Program Manager 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 can 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 Senior Acute Program Manager 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.

About the Role:

An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Senior Acute Program Manager within the Allied Health Division.

The Senior Acute Program Manager, Allied Health NALHN is accountable to the Executive Director, Allied Health, NALHN via the Director Clinical Service Operations Allied Health for:

• Development, Implementation, Coordination, and Evaluation of specific Portfolio activities including quality projects, program / service evaluation, new service initiatives and development / review of divisional procedures.
• Working with other Managers and Allied Health Clinicians, the Program Manager optimises team function and service delivery outcomes that positively impact on client health outcomes.
• Provision of professional leadership and coordination to support divisional projects / functions which underpin best practice service provision across the NALHN service.

To be eligible for this position, you must 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 or equivalent qualification, usually in human movements, inclusive of the exercise physiology elective and eligible for accreditation from Exercise Sports Science Australia (ESSA).

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: 861922

Enquiries

Melissa Pearse

Allied Health Facilitator

Phone: (08) 8182 9***

E-mail: **************@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date

5 April 2024 - 11.55PM

Attachments

 861922 - Senior Acute Program Manager - AHP4 - Role Description.pdf

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