- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Modbury Hospital – Modbury
- Salary (plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits):
- AHP1 $36.40 - $44.44 per hour + 25% loading
- AHP2 $46.91 - $54.35 per hour + 25% loading
- Casual, up to 25 December 2026
About the Role:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is inviting passionate Exercise Physiologists to join our Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care casual pool. This is a chance to step into a role where your expertise directly shapes patient outcomes and where every day brings meaningful impact.
From the moment you join us, you’ll be contributing to improved mobility, restored independence and enhanced wellbeing for individuals across a diverse range of clinical needs. Whether you’re helping an older adult regain confidence after a hospital stay or supporting a patient through their rehabilitation journey, your work will make a tangible difference.
In this dynamic role, you’ll design and deliver evidence‑based exercise programs tailored to older adults, rehabilitation clients and individuals receiving palliative care. You’ll collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring each patient receives coordinated, holistic support. Your clinical insight will help guide patients through challenges and celebrate their progress along the way.
Our Exercise Physiology services span inpatient, home‑based and community settings within the Rehabilitation and Geriatric clinical services based at Modbury, with opportunities for outreach work. As part of the casual pool, you’ll have the chance to rotate through several key clinical areas:
- Geriatrics: provide assessment and tailored interventions for older adults, working closely with families and carers. You’ll support patients experiencing deconditioning, frailty, cardiac or orthopaedic rehabilitation, including work within the inpatient Geriatric Rehabilitation ward
- Rehabilitation: deliver assessment and individualised programs for adults with a wide range of conditions, including stroke, progressive neurological disorders, brain injury and general deconditioning. Rehabilitation settings include inpatient wards, the Day Rehabilitation Service (a six‑week outpatient program) and the Rehabilitation in the Home program.
Appointment to the role will be at the AHP1 or AHP2 level, dependent on the level of experience.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification, usually in human movements, inclusive of the exercise physiology elective and eligible for accreditation from Exercise Sports Science Australia (ESSA).
About You:
In this role you will be dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Exercise Physiologist who thrives in a supportive, team‑focused environment. You bring strong clinical reasoning, excellent communication skills and a genuine commitment to delivering high‑quality care.
If you’re eager to combine your passion for exercise science with meaningful patient care, this is your opportunity. Step into a role where your skills matter, your growth is supported and your work helps shape the future of healthcare in South Australia.
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.
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 an Exercise Physiologist 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
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: 930600
Enquiries:
Office of Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care
Phone: (08) 7321 1232
E-mail: Health.NALHNACRPCRecruitment@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
27 February 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
930600 - Exercise Physiologist - Aged Care, Rehabilitation & Palliative Care (Casual Pool) - AHP1 - role description.pdf
930600 - Exercise Physiologist - Aged Care, Rehabilitation & Palliative Care (Casual Pool) - AHP2 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
