Join our Mental Health Services Team

The Senior Exercise Physiologist providing specialist services, leadership and exercise programs to enhance mental health consumer wellbeing within the unit.  

About the role: 

The Senior Exercise Physiologist promotes the value of exercise physiology within an acute mental health setting and supports the development of a broader physical health focus within the unit.
Duties for the role will include:

• Provide specialist clinical exercise physiology services in line with best-practice principles for enhancing physical and mental well-being within an acute mental health setting.
• Assume the lead role in initiating, participating in and supporting the development of research activities relevant to mental health recovery and exercise physiology and disseminating the results of research.
• Represent exercise physiology within and outside the Margaret Tobin Centre at discussions, working parties and committees, as required.
• Integrate contemporary information and evidence with personal experience to support the decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis that is expected at this level, e.g. expert clinical knowledge to provide management activities that contribute to, improve, and optimise clinical care.
• Build positive and sustainable links to community exercise facilities/programs to support long-term maintenance of exercise behaviours.
  

About you:

• Extensive experience in the provision of clinical exercise physiology services to clients with a broad range of illnesses and disabilities.
• High levels of responsibility, initiative and organisational skills including the ability to prioritise work, meet deadlines and delegate appropriately. Includes the ability to supervise students and other Exercise Physiologists.
• Demonstrated competence in the application of a wide range of assessments and therapeutic interventions to clients with complex needs, in particular adult consumers with severe mental illness.
• Demonstrated experience in clinical leadership within a discrete unit, including program evaluation and service development.
  

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: The Talent Acquisition Team, health.salhnrecruitment@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Thursday 20th November 2025

Attachments:

• AHP3 Senior Exercise Physiologist MHS Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• 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: 915626