Rotating Occupational Therapist

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is expanding its Allied Health team at Lyell McEwin Health Service, and we're looking for skilled Occupational Therapists ready to grow their clinical practice across a genuinely varied acute and community environment.

These AHP2 positions sit within NALHN's rotating OT program, giving you exposure across multiple clinical areas within Lyell McEwin Health Service and the broader northern Adelaide metro region.

• Deliver high-quality occupational therapy assessment, intervention, and discharge planning across rotating clinical areas.
• Collaborate within multidisciplinary teams to support patient-centred care and safe transitions.
• Contribute to service improvement, student supervision, and peer learning within the OT team.
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation in line with SA Health standards and professional guidelines.

What You'll Bring:

• Degree qualification in Occupational Therapy and current AHPRA registration.
• Demonstrated clinical reasoning and assessment skills applicable to an acute or sub-acute hospital setting.
• Ability to manage a complex caseload and prioritise effectively within a busy health service.
• Clear, confident communication with patients, families, and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Familiarity with SA Health clinical frameworks or willingness to quickly build that knowledge.
• Commitment to culturally safe, person-centred practice aligned with NALHN's community.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide. 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.

With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community. 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.

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.

Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:

• “My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care.”
• “I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service.”
• “I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support.”

NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide’s north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.

Benefits of working at NALHN:

• 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.
• Professional development opportunities.
• 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.

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. Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances).