Rotating Occupational Therapist - AHP2

Health; Adelaide; Hybrid; AUD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Superannuation benefits

Salary Sacrifice

Relocation assistance may be available

Job summary

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is expanding its Allied Health team and seeks skilled Occupational Therapists to grow clinical practice across acute and community settings. OT positions sit within a rotating program across Lyell McEwin Health Service and the northern Adelaide metro region.

You will deliver high-quality OT assessments and interventions, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to service improvement while maintaining SA Health documentation

Qualifications

• Must be registered as an Occupational Therapist with AHPRA.
• Experience in acute or sub-acute hospital settings preferred.
• Ability to manage a complex caseload in a busy health service.
• Commitment to culturally safe, person-centred practice.

Responsibilities

• Deliver OT assessment, intervention, and discharge planning across rotating clinical areas.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support patient-centred care and safe transitions.
• Contribute to service improvement, student supervision, and peer learning within the OT team.
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation in line with SA Health standards and guidelines.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Caseload management

Communication

SA Health frameworks

Cultural safety

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

AHPRA registration

Job description

Job no: 949852
Work type: Full time, Part time
Location: Adelaide Metro Northern
Categories: Allied and Scientific Health

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital & Modbury Hospital – ELIZABETH VALE SA 5112 & MODBURY SA 5092
• Salary: $94,997 - $110,052 p.a. (pro rata) plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP2
• Temporary Full-Time - up until 30 November 2027

About the Role:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is expanding its Allied Health team at Lyell McEwin Health Service, and we're looking for skilled Occupational Therapists ready to grow their clinical practice across a genuinely varied acute and community environment.

Where You'll Make a Difference

These AHP2 positions sit within NALHN's rotating OT program, giving you exposure across multiple clinical areas within Lyell McEwin Health Service and the broader northern Adelaide metro region.

• Deliver high-quality occupational therapy assessment, intervention, and discharge planning across rotating clinical areas
• Collaborate within multidisciplinary teams to support patient-centred care and safe transitions
• Contribute to service improvement, student supervision, and peer learning within the OT team
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation in line with SA Health standards and professional guidelines

What You'll Bring

• Degree qualification in Occupational Therapy and current AHPRA registration
• Demonstrated clinical reasoning and assessment skills applicable to an acute or sub-acute hospital setting
• Ability to manage a complex caseload and prioritise effectively within a busy health service
• Clear, confident communication with patients, families, and multidisciplinary colleagues
• Familiarity with SA Health clinical frameworks or willingness to quickly build that knowledge
• Commitment to culturally safe, person-centred practice aligned with NALHN's community

To be eligible for this position, you must have an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.

About You:

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.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.

NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.

With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.

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.”

Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:

NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide’s north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.

Lyell McEwin Hospital – the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital – a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.

Mental Health Services – adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.

Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services – provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.

Primary Health Care Services – including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.

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.

Access to experienced clinicians across a broad range of expertise, who are supportive of collegial sharing of skills and knowledge in different therapies and client presentations.

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.

NALHN supports and fosters 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.

In addition to this, other benefits of working as an Occupational Therapist in NALHN include:

• professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and under the current enterprise agreement staff are also eligible for a Professional Development Allowance and entitled to claim reimbursement of eligible professional development expenses 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
• regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals

SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence.

We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.

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.

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 949852