- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Salary: $108,347 - $116,216 p.a. (pro rata) plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP3
- Ongoing Part-Time – working 26.25 hours per week
About the Role:
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is seeking an experienced and passionate Podiatrist to work in our dynamic, growing and supportive team. This senior role offers a unique opportunity to lead and shape specialist podiatry services while delivering exceptional outcomes for patients with complex high‑risk foot and ankle conditions.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Podiatry NALHN, you will be responsible for the development, planning, coordination, delivery and evaluation of high‑quality podiatry services across the High Risk Foot Orthopaedic Service. Your expertise will be central to ensuring evidence‑based, patient‑centred care that optimises functional outcomes and supports limb preservation within the NALHN community.
Working collaboratively with podiatry colleagues and key partners - including the Interdisciplinary Diabetes Foot Service, Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic Surgeons, and a broad multidisciplinary team - you will play a pivotal role in delivering coordinated and specialised care. You will actively engage patients in their treatment planning and decision‑making, ensuring care is personalised, holistic and aligned with best‑practice guidelines.
As a highly skilled clinician and senior leader, you will provide clinical leadership within the High Risk Foot Orthopaedic Service, including supervision, mentoring and support of less experienced staff. The role involves direct clinical work within the High‑Risk Foot Service, case management of complex presentations, service development and continuous quality improvement.
Please note: availability to work on Thursdays is essential to support foot clinic operations and service delivery.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as a Podiatrist with the Podiatry Board of Australia.
About You:
In this senior role, you will bring advanced clinical expertise in podiatry assessment and treatment, with extensive experience in the management of high‑risk and complex orthopaedic foot and ankle conditions, including limb salvage. You will demonstrate strong leadership capability, including staff supervision, clinical governance, service development and program evaluation. Highly developed interpersonal, negotiation and consultation skills will support effective collaboration. You will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce accurate clinical documentation, reports and data in a timely manner. Your experience will include working closely with multidisciplinary teams, contributing to policy and procedure development, and delivering care aligned with National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards. Flexibility, resilience and the ability to manage competing priorities within a complex clinical environment will underpin your success in this senior role.
If you are ready to make a meaningful impact in high‑risk foot orthopaedic care and join a passionate, forward‑thinking team, we encourage you to apply and take the next step in your career with NALHN.
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 a Podiatrist in NALHN include:
- professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and under the current enterprise agreement staff are also eligible for a Professional Development Allowance and entitled to claim reimbursement of eligible professional development expenses 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: 934556
Enquiries:
Allied Health Facilitator
Phone: (08) 8182 9379
E-mail: Health.AlliedHealthFacilitator@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
24 April 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
934556 - Senior Podiatrist - High Risk Foot Orthopaedics Service - AHP3 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
