- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network - Gawler
- Salary:
- AHP1: $73,710.00 p.a. - $89,981 pa (pro rata basis)
- AHP2: $94,997 p.a - $110,052 p.a. (pro rata basis)
- Permanent, Part Time – 30 hours per week
Appointment to this position will be at either AHP1 or AHP2 classification, commensurate with the applicant’s level of professional experience, demonstrated competence, and capacity to perform with increasing independence, clinical judgement, and complexity of practice as outlined in the role requirements.
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
The Physiotherapist provides client-centred, goal-oriented and outcome-focused care to older people across the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, working within a multidisciplinary Community Reablement team. The role supports individuals accessing Commonwealth-funded aged care programs across clinic, residential, and home settings, with a focus on maintaining and improving independence, delaying functional decline, and reducing reliance on ongoing services. Using a reablement and wellness approach, the Physiotherapist delivers targeted, time-limited interventions to support issues such as reduced mobility, falls risk, cognitive impairment, frailty, and post-acute recovery needs.
The role involves collaboration across the client journey to support restorative goal setting and improved wellbeing, independence, and autonomy. Working with increasing professional autonomy, the Physiotherapist may also provide clinical supervision and support to less experienced staff, allied health assistants, and students. In addition, the role contributes to a culture of continuous learning, supports complex case management, and promotes team-based care to ensure consistent, high-quality physiotherapy outcomes within the community aged care setting.
WHO ARE WE?
The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network offers opportunities across our sites, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve.
WHERE AND HOW YOU WILL WORK
From heritage streets to riverside walks, boutique shopping and relaxed café moments, Gawler invites you to slow down, wander a little further, stay a little longer and discover the stories around every corner. Just 43 km north of Adelaide and on the edge of the renowned Barossa Valley, Gawler blends historic charm with vibrant local culture. Planned in 1839 by William Light, the town is rich in character, with grand stone buildings, historic pubs and beautifully preserved streets. Visit Gawler here.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Do you have a strong commitment to reablement and wellness-focused care, with a passion for supporting older people to maintain independence, function, and quality of life?
- Do you want to us your highly developed clinical reasoning and adaptability, with the ability to manage a varied and increasingly complex caseload across community, home, and residential settings every day?
- Are you a strong collaborator who can work within multidisciplinary teams, contributing to shared goals, coordinated care, and positive client outcomes?
- Are you motivated to contribute to service improvement and innovation, including quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and effective use of resources?
- Do you have a proactive, self-directed approach to professional growth, including willingness to provide clinical supervision, support learners, and engage in ongoing learning and development?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
You will……….
- Deliver client-centred, goal-oriented physiotherapy services to older people across clinic, home, and residential settings within Commonwealth-funded aged care programs, using a wellness and reablement approach to optimise independence and functional capacity.
- Undertake comprehensive assessment, intervention planning, implementation, and evaluation for a diverse caseload, including conditions such as frailty, falls risk, cognitive impairment, chronic disease, and post-acute rehabilitation needs.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to support coordinated care, discharge planning, referrals, and integrated service delivery, while contributing to improved client outcomes across the care continuum.
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision, and support to allied health assistants, students, and less experienced staff, while maintaining professional practice standards and contributing to a culture of learning and capability building.
- Contribute to service development, quality improvement, data collection, reporting, and compliance with program and accreditation requirements, ensuring efficient, evidence-based, and sustainable service delivery.
WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN?
At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year Click here more information
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities.
- Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program.
- Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS?
Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the upmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include the following:
- You will need to undergo employment screening, what you require is also on the front page of the Role Description.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees and therefore we encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community. We continually look for ways to support and promote diversity and flexible ways of working so please let us know what interests you.
NEED TO RELOCATE?
Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health. Find out more about working in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, and see what it looks like to work and live in regional Australia at: https://movetomore.com.au/
HELP IS HERE!
Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (job ref: 936536), or reach out to Stefan Doube, Allied Health Team Leader – Optimal Ageing on Phone: 0438 543 274 or via E-mail: stefan.doube@sa.gov.au
To find out what you need to apply, and what is required to be offered a role, please refer to the Applicant Checklist BHFLHN Applicant Checklist.pdf. Please also click here for our Australian applicant guidelines
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DON’T HESITATE! Applications Close on 26 May 2026 at 11.55 PM.
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
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