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• Salary: $96,569.00 - $153,533.00 p.a.
• Full Time / Term Contract  (6 to 12 Months)
• Adelaide Airport / 5950

About Us:

SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is South Australia’s provider of emergency ambulance transport, clinical care, and patient transport services.

We are committed to ensuring South Australia has access to the best possible emergency medical care, non-emergency transport, and rescue and retrieval services.

Our Vision: An innovative, patient focused, technology enabled, evidence driven, emergency response and health care ambulance service; achieved by exceptional people.

Our Mission: Providing emergency response and health care ambulance services within South Australia, designed and development around patient and community needs, enabling timely and equitable access for our patients to the most appropriate point of care.

Our Purpose: To ensure South Australia thrives by enabling access to emergency and non-emergency ambulance health care and alternative patient pathways while contributing to our state’s emergency preparedness and health response capability.

Our Values:

PATIENT FOCUSED: We will put our patients and the safe and quality care we provide them first; in everything we do.

TEAMWORK: We will work across SAAS, our health system, our partners, stakeholders and the community to achieve our goals.

INTEGRITY AND HONESTY: We accept and uphold the standards and expectations of our organisation and communities.

RESPECT AND COURTESY: We will always be respectful and courteous toward our patients, each other, and all those we work with.

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION: We value our role in the community, and we value the communities we serve.

CHANGE READY: We know our communities’ needs will evolve and we must adapt to meet them.

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: We will support leadership development for our people at every level.

The Retrieval Registrar MedSTAR Kids will respond by road vehicle, turbo prop fixed wing aircraft or helicopter and will bring experience in neonatal and paediatric critical care medical disciplines to patients in inter-facility transport and retrieval environments.

The Retrieval Registrar MedSTAR Kids will be supported and mentored prior to independent retrieval operations and via ongoing teaching, training, audit and quality assurance activities.

What We Offer: 

• Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment with a culture of inclusion and diversity.
• Giving back to the people of South Australia! Play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
• We take care of you! Access to a range of staff and wellness support programs!

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical care for critically ill and injured children and neonates during medical retrievals by road, rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft throughout South Australia and interstate
• Participate in operational retrieval shift roster including 8 or 12-hour day, evening and night shifts plus on-call periods as a medical team member alongside retrieval nurses
• Maintain comprehensive clinical documentation and complete computerised patient care records for all retrieval processes and patient interactions
• Ensure all SAAS MedSTAR clinical equipment remains in optimal readiness through regular checking procedures, troubleshooting issues, and restoration activities including cleaning and restocking
• Participate in quality assurance processes including daily case review meetings, data entry, policy development, research projects, and incident reporting through the Safety Learning System
• Engage in ongoing education programmes including neonatal and paediatric intensive care training, retrieval medicine courses, and counter disaster preparedness activities

Application Information: -

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply for this role. 
• 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/or additional relevant history screening that may be applicable and appropriate Immunisation screening. 
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Job ref: 919903
Enquiries to: Bron Hennebry, A/Head of Unit - MedSTAR Kids: 0405 358 345 / bron.hennebry@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025

Attachments:

 Retrieval Registrar MedSTAR Kids P10890 [MDP2G].pdf

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