- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Adult Acute Inpatient Mental Health Service – Modbury
- Salary: $86,950 - $100,729 p.a. – AHP2 - Temporary Full-Time, up to 3 January 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 and enthusiastic 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.
You will be part of a growing Local Health Network (LHN) that provides an expanding suite of treatment modalities in contemporary, modern facilities.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as an Occupational Therapist within the Adult Acute Inpatient Mental Health Service.
The role involves providing a specialist Occupational Therapy service in a multidisciplinary team alongside supportive Occupational Therapists and Allied Health Assistants. There will be scope to explore and master discipline-specific assessments and interventions including sensory approaches. You will have access to regular structured supervision and participate in regular in-services, including discipline-specific professional development.
The NALHN Adult Acute Inpatient Services provides safe, high-quality patient-centred care by ensuring the approach to service provision is trauma-informed, recovery-oriented and delivered within a therapeutic interdisciplinary framework.
The inpatient services seek to provide inter-disciplinary specialized acute assessment, risk management, care and treatment within an inpatient mental health setting and/or acute phase of illness. These mental health services aim to provide appropriate mental health services that help sustain illness recovery and community tenure.
An interdisciplinary approach is taken that involves team members from different disciplines working collaboratively, with a common purpose, to set goals, make decisions and share resources and responsibilities. The multidisciplinary teams, together with the client, undertake assessment, diagnosis, intervention, goal setting and the creation of a care plan. The client, their family/significant others, and carers, where possible and appropriate, are involved in any discussions about their condition, prognosis and care plan.
As an Occupational Therapist you will be accountable to the Nurse Unit Manager for the provision of assessment and treatment services for clients of Northern Mental Health, which aims to optimise health outcomes. In this role you may rotate through a series of clinical services.
Occupational Therapists 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.
In this role you will work under limited direct clinical supervision and may provide direction and support to Allied Health assistants and students. You will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team, liaising directly with the medical, and 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 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: 866533
Enquiries
Suzzanne Porcaro
Principal Occupational Therapist
Phone: 0410 049 288
E-mail: suzzanne.porcaro@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
19 July 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
866533 - Occupational Therapist - Adult Acute Inpatient Mental Health - AHP2 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.
