About the Role:
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is seeking a Senior Psychologist to join the Northern Adelaide Pain Rehabilitation Service (NAPRS) - a highly regarded, multidisciplinary service supporting individuals living with persistent and complex pain. This senior role offers a unique opportunity to combine advanced clinical practice with leadership, service development and mentorship in a specialist rehabilitation setting.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Northern Adelaide Rehabilitation Service, you will be responsible for the development, coordination, delivery and evaluation of high‑quality psychology services within NAPRS. Your work will directly contribute to improved health outcomes through evidence‑based, patient‑centred psychological care.
NAPRS is a collaborative, multidisciplinary team comprising Anaesthesiologists, Rehabilitation Physicians, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses and administrative staff. Within this environment, psychologists play a critical role in conducting comprehensive assessments, designing and implementing psychological interventions, and providing individual, group and family‑based counselling to people with chronic pain and their support networks.
As an experienced clinician, you will deliver specialist clinical and health psychology services while providing strong clinical leadership across the Chronic Pain Service. You will uphold professional standards, contribute to service planning and evaluation, and actively participate in research and quality improvement initiatives. As a mentor and approved supervisor, you will provide profession‑specific supervision, support the clinical education of staff and provisionally registered psychologists, and guide the development of early‑career clinicians. You will be accountable for your own practice standards, delegated activities and the clinical governance of psychology services.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology or equivalent qualification as recognised by the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA). Must be endorsed in area of practice. Must hold general registration with the PsyBA. Must hold approved supervisor status with the PsyBA at all levels of supervision (primary and secondary).
About You:
To be successful in this role, you will be a confident, strategic and highly skilled psychologist who thrives in complex clinical environments. You will bring:
- demonstrated ability to independently design, implement and evaluate complex psychological interventions, including individual, group and family programs
- expertise in the assessment and management of complex clinical presentations, with the ability to evaluate outcomes
- capacity to provide specialist consultancy services to hospital units and external agencies
- proven experience in clinical leadership, including supervision, performance development and management of professional staff and trainees
- strong capability in managing ethical issues, including confidentiality and privacy
- excellent organisational, planning and time‑management skills
- highly developed communication, liaison and teamwork abilities
- strategic thinking, initiative and leadership in service development
- commitment to ongoing professional development aligned with organisational objectives
- experience developing, implementing and evaluating policies and procedures in hospital or ambulatory settings
- a strong understanding of the impacts of health issues on individuals, families and communities, and experience working within multidisciplinary teams
- proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and clinical information systems
This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior leadership role within a passionate, driven and forward‑thinking team dedicated to excellence in pain rehabilitation and public healthcare. If you’re ready to lead with purpose, advance specialist services and make a lasting difference in the lives of people living with chronic pain, we encourage you to apply and join us in shaping the future of pain rehabilitation care.
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 a Psychologist 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: 936456
Enquiries:
Office of Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care
Phone: (08) 7321 4232
E-mail: Health.NALHNACRPCRecruitment@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
29 May 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
936456 - Senior Psychologist - Northern Adelaide Pain Rehabilitation Service - AHP3 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
