- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Allied Health Services , Lyell McEwin Hospital – SALISBURY DOWNS 5108, HILLCREST 5086 & ELIZABETH VALE SA 5112
- Salary: $73,710 - $120,284 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP1/AHP2/APH3
- Temporary/ Full-Time/Part time
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is building a talent pool of skilled Allied Health professionals to join the team - one of South Australia's busiest metropolitan networks, serving a growing and genuinely diverse community in Adelaide's north.
Professions eligible to apply:
- Occupational Therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Podiatry
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Social Work
- Speech Pathology
At NALHN Allied Health Division, we’re more than a workplace—we’re a community that values collaboration, innovation, and professional growth. When you join our team, you’ll have access to a wide range of opportunities designed to help you thrive.
Why work with us?
- Professional Development Opportunities
We invest in your future. Our Allied Health Education Unit delivers high-quality, targeted in-house training programs to keep your skills sharp and relevant. With access to personal deveoplement allowance’s you can continue building strong professional foundations and stay at the forefront of your field.
- New Graduate Programs
Starting your career? Our structured multidisciplinary new graduate program will provide mentorship, hands-on experience, and tailored learning pathways to help you transition confidently from study to practice.
- Wide Breadth of Clinical Casework
No two days are the same. You’ll work with a diverse range of patients and conditions, giving you exposure to complex and varied clinical scenarios that will challenge and grow your expertise.
- Inpatient and Outpatient Services
Experience the full spectrum of care. Our team works across inpatient wards and outpatient clinics Lyell McEwin Hospital, Modbury Hospital, offering you opportunities to develop skills in different settings and models of care.
- Opportunities to Participate in Research
Be part of shaping the future of healthcare. With an Allied Health Research Chair dedicated to supporting clinicians, you’ll have the chance to contribute to clinical research projects and evidence-based practice initiatives.
- Opportunities to Participate in Quality and Continuous Improvements
Your ideas matter. Join projects that focus on improving patient outcomes and service delivery, and play an active role in driving innovation and excellence across our health network.
- Regular Clinical Supervision
We support your growth every step of the way. Through regular clinical supervision, you’ll receive personalised feedback, guidance, and development opportunities to help you achieve your career goals.
- Flexible Work Arrangements
We understand the importance of balance. Wherever possible NALHN endeavour to provide flexible scheduling options that support your lifestyle and commitments while maintaining high-quality patient care
About us:
NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.
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.
Sites Allied Health Division service:
Lyell McEwin Hospital – the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services
Modbury Hospital – a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.
Primary Health Care Services – including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.
Children and Families Service - Salisbury Downs and Gilles Plains
What to know more about our teams?
Physiotherapy:
Our Physiotherapy Team is at the heart of patient recovery, helping individuals regain independence and improve quality of life across inpatient, outpatient and community settings. Our acute setting offers a fast past environment where clinicians work collaboratively with other disciplines to progress patient care.
Every day brings variety, challenge, and the chance to make a real difference for patients across the continuum of care. We provide physiotherapy services in diverse acute care areas, including the Emergency Department, Critical Care, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Neurology, Respiratory, Cardiology, General Surgery, and General Medical wards. Our work extends beyond the hospital with specialised outpatient clinics supporting Paediatrics, Adult Orthopaedics (including first contact assessment clinics), Musculoskeletal, Lymphedema, Vestibular, Pelvic Health, Obstetrics and chronic disease management in community settings.
Our diverse team has roles suited to all stages of the career journey offering new graduate positions, rotating roles, AHP2 roles within specialty areas, student clinical education and senior clinical roles, providing opportunities for staff to expand their skills across multiple clinical streams or focus their careers in a speciality area.
Occupational Therapy:
If you are passionate, keen to learn and enjoy a fast-paced environment you will enjoy working collaboratively and alongside our highly experienced Occupational therapists and multidisciplinary team. You will gain skills working with patients with a variety of conditions such as stroke, bariatric, frailty, joint replacements, and cognitive decline. You will hone your skills and efficiency in:
- Comprehensive assessments – functional and cognitive
- Aids and equipment prescription
- Neurological and upper limb rehabilitation
- Hand therapy and splint fabrication
- Complex Case management and discharge planning
- Functional Therapy prescription and rehabilitation programs
The role consists of providing high quality clinical care with opportunities to rotate and expand your clinical skills through different clinical streams including opportunities in speciality areas including chronic disease management and paediatrics.
Social Work:
Our Acute Social Work team provides brief crisis bio-psycho-assessments, crisis intervention, and referrals to community supports. The core clinical service aims to identify early vulnerable patients at risk of harm & abuse and/ or identify barriers to a safe discharge plan often navigating highly complex situations.
Grow your skills with the opportunity to rotate across multiple clinical areas such as Child Protection, Elder Abuse, Domestic and Family Violence, Youth and Paediatrics, High-Risk Pregnancy, Grief, Loss, Trauma, and Carer Stress and chronic disease management. This fast-paced, highly regulated role is perfect for those who value teamwork, structure, and delivering exceptional care within a government health system. Apply now and help us shape better outcomes for our community.
Nutrition and Dietetics:
Make a meaningful impact on patient care by delivering expert nutrition support in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment. Our Acute Dietetics Team is essential in optimising health outcomes for patients across Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Work across diverse clinical areas, including critical care, surgical wards, medical wards, paediatrics, oncology, renal, endocrine, neurology, food service and specialty services.
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- Nutrition assessment and diagnosis for complex medical conditions.
- Enteral and parenteral nutrition support.
- Management of malnutrition modified texture diets, food allergies / intolerances and metabolic disorders.
- Specialised dietary interventions for example renal, cardiac, and gastrointestinal conditions.
- Home Enteral Nutrition
Deliver care in both inpatient and outpatient settings, including clinics for paediatrics, oncology, diabetes, gastrointestinal and renal and chronic disease management.
Speech Pathology:
Our Acute Speech Pathology Team provides expert evidence informed assessment and intervention relevant to the management of communication and swallowing difficulties across the lifespan including the youngest patients in our special care nursery to adults with acquired neurological conditions.
We work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver exceptional care in diverse acute clinical areas, including critical care, neurology & stroke, respiratory, cardiology, paediatrics & special care nursery and general medical and surgical wards.
Our work extends beyond the hospital with specialised outpatient clinics supporting Swallowing Disorders, Voice Disorders, Paediatric Feeding and Neonatal Surveillance.
We invest in our staff and provide structured learning pathways new graduates as well as support our senior’s clinician’s growth. We create opportunities for rotations across clinical areas, enable staff to work through work through competencies such Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) and tracheostomy management. We strongly support staff to engage in quality improvement /research or project roles.
Podiatry
Step into a role where your expertise truly makes a difference. Our e Podiatry Team provides essential care for patients with complex foot and lower limb conditions across Northern Adelaide Local Health Network’s tertiary hospitals. Deliver podiatry services in high-acuity settings, surgical wards, medical wards, and outpatient clinics and community, supporting patients from acute admission through to recovery.
The podiatry team operates as part of a highly collaborate multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals to deliver integrated, patient-centred care. Your will advance your skills in:
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- Wound care and management of high-risk feet, including diabetic foot complications.
- Pressure injury prevention and treatment.
- Post-operative care and rehabilitation for lower limb surgery.
- Biomechanical assessment and offloading strategies.
If you’re passionate about improving mobility and preventing complications in a dynamic, acute care setting, we want you on our team.
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.
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 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):
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: 938506
Enquiries:
Allied Health Facilitator
Phone: [(08) 7485 4750
E-mail: Health.AlliedHealthFacilitator@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
30 June 2027 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
938506 Allied Health Pool Dietician- AHP1 Role Description.pdf
938506 Allied Health Pool Dietitian General- AHP2 Role Description.pdf
938506 Allied Health Pool Occupational Therapy - AHP1 Role Description.pdf
938506 Allied Health Pool - Physiotherapist - AHP2 Role Description.pdf
938506 Allied Health Pool Podiatry- AHP1 Role Description
938506 Allied Health Talent Pool Occupational Therapist - AHP2 Role Description.
938506 Allied Health Pool Physiotherapy- AHP1 Role Description.pdf
938506 Allied Health Pool Social Work - AHP1 Role Description.pdf
938506 Allied Health Pool Podiatry - AHP2 Role Description.pdf
938506 Allied Health Pool Social Work- AHP2 Role Description.pdf
938506 Allied Health Pool Speech Pathology - AHP1 Role Description.pdf
938506 Allied Health Pool Speech Pathology - AHP2 Role Description.pdf
AHP 3 Role Descriptions on request
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
