• Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
• Glenside, Adelaide
• Salary: AHP2 $46.92 - $54.35 per hour + 25% Casual Loading
• Casual role working over a 5-day roster up to 13 December 2026

WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?

Join a flexible, supportive, and values-driven Allied Health Casual Pool, delivering high-quality mental health services across community, acute, and rehabilitation settings. You’ll have the opportunity to work across diverse clinical areas, contribute your professional expertise, and support multidisciplinary teams in providing recovery-focused, person-centred care.

This casual pool role offers the chance to engage with a wide range of clients, participate in service development and quality improvement initiatives, and collaborate with experienced colleagues across the region. It’s an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of consumers and their families while enhancing your professional skills within a dynamic, community-focused environment.

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 (position based in Glenside). 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

Located in Glenside, just minutes from Adelaide’s CBD, this role offers the convenience of inner-eastern living within a well-established health precinct. Enjoy easy access to cafés, parklands, public transport, and a vibrant professional community while working in a supportive metropolitan setting.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Are you a skilled allied health professional with experience in mental health care?
• Do you enjoy working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, mentoring students or junior staff, and supporting recovery-focused practice?
• Are you committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based services that improve outcomes for consumers, their families, and the community?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions – then read on…

HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?

• Deliver evidence-based assessment, intervention, and support services across mental health settings, tailored to consumer, family, and community needs.
• Provide guidance, supervision, and mentorship to less experienced allied health staff, assistants, and students, promoting safe and effective practice.
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and with external service providers to ensure integrated, person-centred care.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and community programs to enhance mental health outcomes across the region.

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 be immunised. Please contact the Enquiries Person for this position if you have any queries. Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy. Further information is in the application for to help guide you. 
• You will need to undergo employment screening, what you require is also on the front page of the Role Description.
• You must hold a recognized qualification within the professions of Occupational Therapy, Psychology or Social Work.
  • For Occupational Therapy, you must hold a recognised Occupational Therapy qualification and as a regulated profession be eligible for registration as an occupational therapist within Australia.
  • For Psychology, you must hold general registration as a Psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia. Clinical endorsement with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) or eligible and willing to participate in AHPRA Clinical Psychology Registrar Program is desirable.
  • For Social Work, you must hold a recognised qualification within the Social Work profession and be eligible for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). Must have participated on ongoing professional development in line with AASW guidelines.

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: 921581), or reach out to Dan Donaghey, Community Operations Manager - Mental Health on Phone: 0459 800 922 or via E-mail: dan.donaghey@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 Sunday 13th December 2026 at 11:55PM

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

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