- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Salary: $118,887 - $129,427 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP4
- Temporary Full-Time, up to 1 April 2027
About the Role:
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is seeking an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic and supportive team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high‑quality, person‑centred care for older adults across our acute services.
As the Allied Health Acute Aged Care Coordinator, you will provide expert clinical leadership and consultancy. You will play a pivotal role in facilitating integrated assessment, care planning, and timely discharge for eligible aged-care patients.
In this position, you will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to identify older consumers who would benefit from comprehensive care planning, including behavioural support, mobility strategies and diversional programs. You will act as a NALHN specialist in aged care, dementia, and behaviours of concern, fostering strong working relationships with community partners, non-government organisations, and the Department for Health and Wellbeing.
A key component of this role involves monitoring and escalating system issues affecting patient flow and discharge timelines. You will support inpatients with complex needs through time‑limited case coordination, comprehensive assessment, and tailored strategies that promote safe, sustainable discharge and prevent unnecessary hospital representation.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
About You:
To be successful in this role you will be an experienced clinician with deep expertise in dementia care, aged care, and multidisciplinary collaboration. You bring a balanced leadership style, strong communication skills, and a passion for delivering safe, high‑quality, person‑centred care. Key skills, experience and knowledge you possess include:
- extensive experience delivering services to older adults, particularly those living with dementia
- proven ability to provide comprehensive case coordination, behaviour support planning and transition planning
- demonstrated high‑level communication skills, including professional consultation and advocacy across agencies
- strong leadership capability
- highly developed organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast‑paced, changing environment
- ability to build effective multidisciplinary relationships and foster teamwork across diverse disciplines
- experience working with families, carers and community providers to improve outcomes for older adults
- proven ability to initiate, plan, implement and monitor projects and service innovations
- calm, objective and logical approach to problem‑solving and decision‑making
This is an exceptional opportunity to join a passionate, progressive team committed to improving the wellbeing of older people in our community. Apply now and become part of a service that makes a meaningful difference every day.
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.”
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 Occupational Therapist 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 B (indirect 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: 932415
Enquiries:
Allied Health Facilitator
Phone: (08) 8182 9379
E-mail: Health.AlliedHealthFacilitator@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
3 April 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
932415 - Allied Health Acute Aged Care Coordinator - AHP4 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
