At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead complex Occupational Therapy services and mentor fellow clinicians.
- Company: Join a supportive health network dedicated to exceptional patient care.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, generous leave, professional development, and health benefits.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with opportunities for career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the community while enjoying a coastal lifestyle.
- Qualifications: Advanced Occupational Therapy skills and strong leadership abilities.
The predicted salary is between 120284 - 120284 $ per year.
This temporary senior Occupational Therapy leadership role offers a unique opportunity to step into a high-impact position shaping and delivering complex clinical and consultancy services across the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network. Working with a high degree of professional autonomy, you will apply advanced clinical expertise and strategic insight to support service delivery, guide practice development, and contribute to system-wide improvements. You will play a key role in advising leadership on service redesign, establishing clinical protocols, and ensuring services are responsive to community needs, with a strong focus on culturally safe, person-centred care.
In this time-limited role, you will drive workforce capability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will lead and support Occupational Therapists through supervision, education, and mentoring, while building strong partnerships across disciplines and services. With involvement in research, service evaluation, and strategic planning, you will make a meaningful contribution to the direction and performance of Occupational Therapy services, delivering lasting impact for patients, teams, and the broader network.
In this role you will work across the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas (position based in Victor Harbor). 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.
Are you confident delivering advanced Occupational Therapy services with a high level of autonomy across diverse and complex clinical settings? Can you provide strong clinical leadership, guiding, mentoring and developing other clinicians while shaping best practice? Do you have the ability to influence service design and improvement, using evidence, data and strategic insight to drive better outcomes? Are you skilled at building meaningful partnerships and communicating effectively with stakeholders, teams and leadership at all levels? Do you actively pursue continuous learning, research and innovation to strengthen services and improve patient care?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on...
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
- Lead the delivery of complex Occupational Therapy services and provide high-level clinical expertise across the network.
- Guide and support clinicians through supervision, mentoring, education and workforce development initiatives.
- Influence service planning, redesign and improvement to ensure services are effective, equitable and aligned to community needs.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, stakeholders and external partners to strengthen integrated, patient-centred care.
- Drive continuous improvement through research, evaluation, risk monitoring and the development of clinical protocols and resources.
Victor Harbor offers a coastal lifestyle like no other, combining ocean views, outdoor living, and a welcoming community. With a strong local services hub and a relaxed pace of life, it's an ideal location for those seeking meaningful work alongside a change of scenery.
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.
- 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.
Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the utmost 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.
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.
DON'T HESITATE! Applications Close on Tuesday 10th November 2026 at 11.55 PM.
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