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• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Modbury Hospital – Modbury
• Salary: AHP1 - $68,478 - $83,594 p.a. / AHP2 - $88,255 - $102,240 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits
• Ongoing Full-Time

About the Role:

Are you ready to make a lasting impact in the lives of others? The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking a skilled and compassionate Prosthetist and Orthotist to join our dedicated team.

As a Prosthetist and Orthotist, you will play a vital role in providing exceptional care and support to patients who require prosthetic and orthotic services. Your expertise will be instrumental in designing, fabricating, and fitting custom-made devices that enhance mobility, improve quality of life, and promote independence. You will be responsible for conducting comprehensive assessments, developing customised treatment plans, and providing ongoing follow-up care to ensure optimal outcomes.

The Orthotics and Prosthetics team is co-located with the Podiatry team within the Specialist Ambulatory Rehabilitation Centre adjacent to Modbury Hospital. The space is equipped with a large and newly refurbished workshop with the ability to manufacture custom-made devices. You will provide an outpatient service, as well as treating patients within the Day Rehabilitation Service, and responding to referrals from the inpatient rehabilitation wards of Modbury Hospital.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, sharing knowledge and contributing to the continuous improvement of patient care

To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification of Orthotists and Prosthetists.

About You:

Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Prosthetist and Orthotist 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.

Your strong communication skills and empathetic approach will be essential in building trust and fostering positive relationships with patients and their families.

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

About Adelaide:

Adelaide has recently been recognised as a city that artfully combines its compact charm and world-class cuisine with picturesque nature escapes, earning a delightful nod from the Wall Street Journal as being possibly the coolest city in Australia. Ranked one of the worlds “Most Liveable Cities”, Adelaide is a culinary playground with a delicious mix of fine dining restaurants, award-winning cafes, bustling food markets and booming boutique bars. Events like the LIV Golf, SANTOS Tour down under cycling, Adelaide Fringe and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival add extra appeal to living here.

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.

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

Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:

Lyell McEwin Hospital – The major hospital in the north and north-east for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetrics, 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.

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.

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.

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 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: 882460

Enquiries:

Jessica Whitefield

A/Senior Manager

Phone: (08) 7321 4100

E-mail: jessica.whitefield@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date:

29 November 2024 – 11.55PM

Role Description:

 882460 - Prosthetist and Orthotist - AHP1 - role description.pdf

 882460 - Prosthetist and Orthotist - AHP2 - role description.pdf

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