Senior Occupational Therapist - Tarnanthi Ward, Forensic Mental Health

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Forensic Mental Health Service – Glenside
• Salary: $102,641 - $110,094 p.a. – AHP3 - Temporary Full-Time, up until 6 November 2025 

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

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.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

About You:

Are you a dedicated, compassionate, enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist 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 Senior Occupational Therapist within the Forensic Mental Health Service.

The Senior Occupational Therapist is responsible to the Nursing Director of the Forensic Mental Health Service Inpatient units for the provision of assessment and treatment services for consumers of NALHN which aims to optimise health outcomes. In this role you may rotate through a series of clinical services.

The Forensic Mental Health Service is a multidisciplinary service that consists of inpatient secure psychiatric beds, Out-patient Service and Psychiatric Clinics, Prison In-Reach Service, Community Team, Forensic Step-Down Unit and Court Assessment Service. 

In this role you will work within the secure psychiatric unit, James Nash House, which provides services primarily to consumers who have been declared not guilty by reason of mental impairment or unfit to plead of an offence by the SA court system. 

As a Senior Occupational Therapist you will work with clients with serious mental illness using a range of appropriate Occupational Therapy assessments and treatment approaches, for the planning, implementation and evaluation of both individualised and group programs. 

Working in conjunction with other clinicians and health professionals, the Senior Occupational Therapist optimises patient functional and health outcomes in this specialty area. 

As a highly skilled and competent clinician, you will deliver quality services and provide clinical leadership within the hospital services, providing support and supervision to less experienced staff.

To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate degree of equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy 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)

• 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: 861641

Enquiries

Gemma Ferraretto

A/Principal Occupational Therapist

Phone: (08) 7485 4***

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

Application Closing Date

29 March 2024 - 11.55PM

Attachments

 861641 - Senior Occupational Therapist - Tarnanthi Ward, Forensic Mental Health - AHP3 - role description.pdf

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