- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
- Rural and Remote Mental Health Service
- Location: Eastwood
- Multi-Class Position - Registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker
- Salary: RN/M2C $87,416 - $110,497 per annum
- Salary: AHP2 $94,997 - $110,052 per annum
- Temporary Contract up to 1st November 2027, Full Time
This is a multi-classed position, suitable for either a Registered Nurse Level 2C or Allied Health Professional Level 2. Appointment to this position will 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?
A role where your expertise can make a real difference.
If you’re an experienced Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Registered Nurse looking for a role with purpose, variety and professional autonomy, this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for! Join our Older Persons Mental Health Specialised Services (OPMHSS) team and work within a passionate multidisciplinary team providing specialist mental health care to older people across regional and remote South Australia.
This is more than a traditional clinical role. You’ll be part clinician, consultant, educator and problem-solver — working across residential aged care, community and mental health settings to provide timely, practical and specialist support when it matters most. You’ll be joining a small team that is collaborative, responsive and committed to keeping older people connected to the right care, in the right place, at the right time. If you’re motivated by complex clinical work, value collaboration and want to use your skills to improve the experience of care for older people where no two days are the same, we’d love to hear from you!
WHO ARE WE?
The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network wraps all the way around our metropolitan areas, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda. 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
As part of the Rural & Remote Mental Health Service, this outreaching role offers the best of both worlds. Based in Eastwood in Adelaide's leafy inner south, you'll have easy access to local amenities and transport, as well as the opportunity to travel across regional South Australia with overnight and short-notice travel required, adding variety and a unique regional dimension to your role.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Are you a confident mental health clinician with the skills, experience and professional curiosity to support older people experiencing complex mental health and dementia-related presentations?
- Do you bring an evidence-based allied health approach and a commitment to contemporary, recovery-oriented and person-centred practice?
- Are you a natural collaborator and communicator who enjoys building strong relationships with consumers, families, carers, colleagues and external services?
- Are you committed to lifelong learning and professional growth, with the ability to share your knowledge, contribute to clinical supervision and strengthen mental health practice across regional services?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
You will……….
- Deliver specialist, high-quality mental health care — using your allied health expertise to assess, support and advocate for older people with complex mental health needs, including severe mental illness, dementia and BPSD.
- Connect people with the right support — working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, Residential Aged Care and community services to create coordinated care pathways and support consumers throughout their recovery journey.
- Share your expertise and build capability — providing consultation, education and professional support to colleagues, students, external agencies and community partners while contributing to a strong clinical network across regional South Australia.
- Help shape better mental health services — contributing to quality improvement, service development, health promotion, evaluation and contemporary clinical practice to continually improve outcomes for consumers and their families.
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: 955260), or reach out to Bronwyn Anderson, Coordinator OPMHSS RRMHS on Phone: 0410 423 571or via E-mail: bronwyn.anderson@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 Thursday 26th November 2026 at 11.55 PM.
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
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