- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – ACH Healthia - Elizabeth South
- Salary: $108,347 - $116,216 p.a. (pro rata) plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP3
- Ongoing Part-Time – working 18.75 hours per week
- Temporary Part-Time - working 18.75 hours per week, up to 31 December 2026
About the Role:
Join the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Senior Occupational Therapist within the Northern Adelaide Geriatric Service (NAGS) and play a pivotal role in improving health outcomes for older adults across our community. This is an opportunity to step into a senior, clinically influential position where your expertise will directly shape patient care and service quality.
This role provides a unique opportunity to work in the Northern Reablement and Intermediate Care to Return Home (NRICH) Service at ACH Group, HEALTHIA Residential Aged Care Facility. NRICH is a hospital substitution service with NALHN and ACH Group working in partnership to deliver care and reablement to older adults on the trajectory to returning home. ACH Care Staff provide specialist aged care support across 24 hours, 7 days per week. NALHN Geriatric Service clinicians provide medical oversite, planning and a reablement program to optimise functional independence in a home-based setting to support safe discharge to home.
Working within NAGS, you will deliver specialised occupational therapy assessment and intervention for older adults with complex and often interrelated health needs. You will lead clinical decision-making, guide best practice, and support safe, timely transitions from hospital to home or alternative care settings. Through close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, your contribution will ensure care is person-centred, evidence-based and outcome focused.
In this role you will:
- conduct comprehensive functional assessments for geriatric patients
- develop and implement evidence-based treatment plans
- provide clinical supervision and education to team members
- participate in discharge planning and community liaison activities
This position is offered in one of the following arrangements:
- full-time until 31 December 2026, transitioning to ongoing part-time, or
- two part-time positions, comprising one ongoing part-time role and one temporary part-time role until 31 December 2026.
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 a highly experienced and motivated occupational therapist with a strong commitment to excellence in geriatric care. You bring advanced clinical knowledge, well-developed problem-solving skills and the confidence to lead and support others in a complex healthcare environment.
Your success in this role will be supported by exceptional verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated leadership and supervision capability, extensive experience in geriatric occupational therapy, and a proven ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively within interdisciplinary teams. A passion for ongoing professional growth and service improvement underpins everything you do.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your occupational therapy career and contribute your expertise to meaningful, patient-centred healthcare, we invite you to apply.
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 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 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: 935985
Enquiries:
Megan Dundon
Senior Manager, Northern Adelaide Geriatric Service
Phone: (08) 7117 8341
E-mail: megan.dundon@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
22 May 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
935985 - Senior Occupational Therapist - Northern Adelaide Geriatric Service - AHP3 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
