- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Older Persons Mental Health Service - Oakden
- Salary: $67,589 - $72,033 p.a. (pro-rata) plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits - OPS3
- Ongoing Part-time - 22.5 hours per week
Join Our Team at Northgate Neuro Behavioural Unit
Northgate is one of South Australia’s specialist Neuro-Behavioural Units, providing short-term, transitional care for people living with dementia who experience severe behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD).
Our secure, dementia-enabling environment is supported by a highly skilled multidisciplinary team trained in mental health, aged care, and trauma-informed care. We work closely with families and carers to deliver person-centred care and ensure smooth transition to community-based settings.
If you’re passionate about making a difference in dementia care and want to work in a collaborative, evidence-based environment, we’d love to hear from you.
About the Role:
As a Carer Consultant, you will bring your lived experience of caring for a person with mental illness or dementia to support families and carers within Northgate Neuro-Behavioural Unit. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team under the guidance of the Senior Social Worker, you will:
- Provide emotional support and practical information to families/carers throughout the consumer’s admission.
- Share strategies and insights to promote family-inclusive care and recovery.
- Assist with education sessions, treatment pathway information, and respite options.
- Contribute the carer perspective in care planning, family meetings, and service development.
- Act as a resource for carer-friendly practices and community supports.
This role is pivotal in ensuring families feel heard, informed, and supported during a challenging time, while helping embed family-inclusive approaches across the service.
About You:
You are passionate about supporting families and carers and have personal experience caring for someone with mental illness or dementia. You understand the challenges families face and can use your lived experience to provide empathy, guidance, and practical strategies.
To succeed in this role, you will bring:
- Excellent communication skills – able to listen, support, and share information clearly.
- Collaborative approach – comfortable working within a multidisciplinary team and contributing to care planning.
- Organisational skills – able to manage time effectively and coordinate carer forums or education sessions.
- Professional boundaries – maintaining respect and sensitivity in all interactions.
- Knowledge of community resources – including respite options and carer supports.
A Certificate IV in Mental Health or similar is desirable, but not essential. What matters most is your ability to use your experience to make a positive difference for families during a challenging time.
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.
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.
SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence.
We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.
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 Check (National Police Certificate) for general employment probity, vulnerable person-related employment and aged care sector screening – apply to any of the accredited bodies approved to offer a service direct to the public. Accreditation is provided by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. See our National Police Certificate accredited bodies page for links to lodge screening requests.
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: 923205
Enquiries:
Cindy Coventry
Nurse Unit Manager
Phone: (08) 7117 3100
E-mail: Cindy.Coventry@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
9 January 2026 - 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
923205 - OPS3 - Carer Consultant Inpatient (Northgate House) - Role Description.pdf
For more information about Mental Health vacancies at NALHN visit our Careers in Mental Health page.
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
