- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Playford Health Hub – Elizabeth Vale
- Salary: $108,347 - $116,216 per annum), plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits
- AHP3 – Temporary Full-time Available – up to 30 June 2026
Shape the future of urgent care – and make a real difference every day.
Join our passionate team at NALHN and bring your expertise to a role that transforms lives. As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you’ll lead innovative, patient-centred care within the Urgent Care Hub, helping people receive timely and individualised care when they need it most.
The Urgent Care Hub Playford is a service that supports older people requiring urgent comprehensive geriatric assessment and treatment in an alternative environment to an Emergency Department. You'll be part of a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team led by geriatricians, providing essential occupational therapy services to patients requiring immediate care and intervention.
About the Role:
As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you'll assess, treat and support older adults presenting with diverse clinical conditions as a part of a multidisciplinary team within our Urgent Care Hub at Playford.
Within the role of the Senior Occupational Therapist you will:
- Conduct comprehensive interdisicplinary and occupational therapy assessments in the urgent care setting
- Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to achieve optimal patient outcomes and avoid hospital admissions where appropriate
- Identifying and implementing strategies and supports to facilitate safe discharge home
- Provide clinical supervision and mentorship to junior therapists across the Northern Adelaide Geriatric Service
- Contribute to quality improvement initiatives and service development
About You:
You will have a degree in Occupational Therapy, and be eligible for and/or hold current registration with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
You will have extensive clinical experience, including program evaluation and service development.
You will thrive in a fast-paced environment which requires you to adapt to changing priorities.
You demonstrate strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Postgraduate qualifications and experience in emergency or acute care settings are highly desirable in this setting.
This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
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.
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.
Mental Health - The Division of Mental Health provides a comprehensive range of public mental health services for youth, adults and older people in northern Adelaide. Services are provided through community health centres and hospitals, and to consumers in their own homes.
Forensic Mental Health - A statewide service that operates as part of the Division of Mental Health for forensic patients and prisoners.
Community Sites - Elizabeth GP Plus, Modbury GP Plus and Gilles Plains GP Plus Super Clinics providing community based 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.
You will have access to professional development opportunities during work hours, plus ability to apply for financial reimbursement of professional development activity up to a capped amount per financial year.
Incremental wage increases in-line with the incremental wage increases in-line with the Allied Health Professionals, Assistants and Psychologists Enterprise Agreement 2025
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 a Senior Occupational Therapist within NALHN include:
- professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and staff are also eligible for external, funded professional development 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
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.
Checks:
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: 922295
Enquiries:
Megan Dundon
Senior Manager, Northern Adelaide Geriatric Service
Phone: (08) 7117 8341
E-mail: megan.dundon@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
19 December 2025 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
922295 - AHP3 - Senior Occupational Therapist - Urgent Care Hub - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
