- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Salary: $108,347 - $116,216 per annum, plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP3
- Temporary Full-Time, up to 21 February 2027
Join SA Health as a Senior Physiotherapist Medicine at Lyell McEwin Hospital, where you will make a meaningful difference in patient care across Adelaide's northern communities.
Step into a leadership role where your expertise truly makes a difference. As a Senior Physiotherapist leading the Physiotherapists working within our Medicine teams, you’ll deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across acute medical wards in a fast-paced hospital environment.
This full-time, short-term contract position runs until 21 February 2027, offering an excellent opportunity to contribute to our health network.
About the Role
Located within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, you will work alongside dedicated healthcare professionals delivering high-quality physiotherapy services to medical patients. This role provides the perfect platform to advance your clinical expertise while supporting patients through their recovery journey.
You’ll work with patients who present with complex clinical needs, optimising their functional outcomes and supporting safe discharge planning. This role combines hands-on clinical care with leadership responsibilities, including supervising, training and mentoring rotational staff, contributing to service development, and driving quality improvement initiatives.
About You
You’re an experienced physiotherapist who thrives in an acute hospital setting and is passionate about improving patient outcomes. You bring:
- Qualifications & Registration – Degree in Physiotherapy and registration with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia.
- Clinical Expertise – Extensive experience in acute medicine and surgical physiotherapy, including assessment, treatment planning, and discharge coordination
- Leadership Skills – Ability to supervise staff, mentor students, and contribute to service development and policy review
- Communication & Collaboration – Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and engage with patients, families, and stakeholders
- Adaptability & Problem-Solving – Skilled at managing competing priorities in a dynamic hospital environment
- Commitment to Quality – Knowledge of best practice guidelines, safety standards, and continuous improvement principles.
Postgraduate qualifications in physiotherapy or related field, and experience in research or quality improvement projects are highly desirable.
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.
Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways.
Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:
“My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care.”
“I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service.”
“I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support.”
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.
You will have access to professional development opportunities during work hours, plus ability to apply for the Allied Health Professionals + Professional Development Reimbursement Program (AHP+PDR) 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 Physiotherapist in 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 via the Allied Health Professionals Plus Professional Development Reimbursement Program, 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: 922305
Enquiries:
Anna Brennan
Director, Physiotherapy
Allied Health
Phone: (08) 8182 9245
E-mail: anna.brennan@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
12 December 2025 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
922305 - AHP3 - Senior Physiotherapist - Medicine - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
