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Opportunity to join our team as an Acute Allied Health Educator

As the Allied Health Educator in the Acute Allied Health Division, you will lead the coordination and delivery of allied health education and training services, supporting the implementation of education strategies and workforce priorities under the direction of the Director, Allied Health Education. You will have the opportunity to translate strategic priorities into operational clinical education programs for allied health staff and support clinicians including monitoring program effectiveness, identifying local clinical education needs, and promoting local education capacity, while ensuring quality and consistency. 

This position may also include a clinical practice component aligned with service and workforce needs. 

About the role: 

As the Acute Allied Health Educator, you will influence the strategic direction of allied health education and training to align with allied health workforce strategies and service priorities by: 

• Setting education and training direction and goals for acute allied health in conjunction with the Director, Allied Health Education that align with the allied health workforce strategy and service priorities. 
• Monitoring the activities and outcomes of allied health education and training activities to ensure they meet organisation and schedule objectives. 
• Work collaboratively with allied health disciplines and services to understand training needs. 
• Sharing strategic direction and providing support and expert consultancy with respect to allied health education and training to allied health clinical leads across the network. 

About you:

• Bachelor's Degree in an Allied Health Discipline, or equivalent qualification enabling registration with the relevant board or eligibility for membership of the progressional association (for non-registered professions), specifically: 
  • Occupational Therapy.
  • Physiotherapy.
  • Speech Pathology.
  • Dietitian.
  • Social Work.
  • Podiatry.
  • Master's in Clinical or Health Psychology.
  • Human movements, inclusive of the exercise physiology elective. 
• Extensive experience in the development, implementation, delivery, co-ordination and evaluation of interprofessional and multidisciplinary allied health education and training programs across an allied health workforce. 
• Demonstrated experience in program evaluation and ongoing service development. 
• Experience with data entry, using a range of computer software packages and database analysis. 
• Demonstrated experience in translating allied health education research into practice. 

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Please note: The attached role description is currently under review and may be adjusted prior to appointment. All applicants will be provided with the finalised role description.

Want To Know More? Contact: Bec Daebeler, Acute Allied Health Director, (08) 8204 5721, Health.SALHNAlliedHealth@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 7th June 2026

Attachments:

• 939910 AHP4 Allied Health Educator - Role Description
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• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• 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 and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• 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: 938810