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• Central Adelaide Local Health Network, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Salary AHP-3 $102,641 - $110,094 p.a.
• Full-time temporary up to 12 months. Part time considered.
• Opportunity to convert to permanency longer term.                                

Join Our Team as a Senior Acute Occupational Therapist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) !

Do you enjoy working in fast paced, supportive multidisciplinary team with exposure to a large variety of patient medical conditions?

Are you passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals and assisting in identifying services required through their patient journey?

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our CALHN Acute occupational therapy team based at the TQEH, Woodville South. Our Occupational therapy service provides therapy to the Emergency Department, Acute Medical / Short stay Unit; General Medical; Geriatrics; Orthopaedics; Surgical; Plastics & Hand Therapy; Cancer & Palliative Care; Respiratory & Cardiac (heart & lung); Renal services.

There are current opportunities to work in Surgical and General Medical streams with opportunity to move into other clinical areas, services, or sites as part of your professional development and interest. 

Key Responsibilities

• Provide high level high level professional judgement, clinical reasoning, and skills to the clinical management of patients with significant levels of complexity.
• Work with a broad and diverse range of multi-disciplinary health professionals within the largest health system in South Australia.
• Provide clinical leadership, education, coordination, and support for patients, staff, and agencies.

Join us in providing excellence in care throughout the patient's health journey.

As a Senior occupational therapist, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your expertise and autonomy in decision-making, contributing significantly to our mission of enhancing patient outcomes. This will suit an Occupational Therapist with at least five years’ experience and will build your career and professional development in this field.

Qualifications

• An appropriate Degree or equivalent which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist by the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia (OTBA) and Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

About CALHN

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network includes South’s Australia’s major quaternary facility, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, and the Repat Health Precinct. We also deliver mental health services at Glenside Health Services and at a range of other locations across the metropolitan and regional areas.

We’re looking for talented staff to join us and help us to shape the future of health through world-class care and world-class research and achieve our vision of being in the top 50 health services in the world and top 5 in Australia.

Benefits of Joining CALHN

At CALHN, we're dedicated to your career satisfaction and wellbeing, offering tailored benefits for healthcare professionals, including:

• Salary Packaging: Flexible options covering living expenses, meal and entertainment allowances, and novated leasing.
• Relocation Support: Up to $10,000 reimbursement of approved relocation expenses for transitioning to CALHN, for eligible applicants, further information can be found here.
• Annual Leave: Enjoy paid recreation leave for essential rejuvenation, with leave loading applied.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: 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.
• Onsite Facilities: Convenient paid car parking facilities ensure easy access.
• Professional Development: Opportunity to apply for reimbursement of eligible professional development activities, and access to dedicated leave for ongoing learning.
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counselling and support services are available via our Employee Assistance Program.
• Team Support: Experience collaborative culture and professional supervision guiding your career journey.

Essential Requirements:

• Current National Police Clearance (NPC)
• Immunisation screening as indicated in the role description. SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Diversity and inclusion: At CALHN we support and foster 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.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Application Information:

• 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 and compliant Immunisation screening. 

Job ref:  874674

Next Steps

Does this sound like the perfect career opportunity for you?

What To Know More? For more information, please contact:

Sarah Heard, Occupational Therapist, Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN)

Telephone:  0403 121 565

sarah.heard@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date

11:55 pm Sunday 8 September 2024

Attachments

 874674 RD Senior Occupational Therapist.pdf

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