Allied Health Assistant, Tarnanthi Ward

3 weeks ago


Adelaide Region SA, Australia SA Health Full time

**Job no**: 839623
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Eastern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Forensic Hospital - Eastwood**:

- **Salary**: $65,606 - $69,919 p.a. **(pro rata)** **- AHA; Temporary Part-Time - 22.5 hours per week, up until 15 November 2024**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

**About You**:
Are you dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Allied Health Assistant within the Forensic Mental Health Service.

The Forensic Mental Health Service is a multidisciplinary service that consists of inpatient secure psychiatric beds, Out-patient Service and Psychiatric Clinics, Prison In-Reach Service, Community Team; and Court Assessment Service. The Allied Health Assistant works within the secure psychiatric hospital, James Nash House / Kenneth O’Brien Rehabilitation Unit, which provides services primarily to patients who have been declared not guilty by reason of mental impairment or unfit to plead of an offence by the SA court system.

The Allied Health Assistant focuses on meeting the practical needs of patients and their families of the Forensic Mental Health Service.

The Allied Health Assistant is responsible to the Senior Social Worker, for the provision of utilising knowledge of welfare and resources and negotiating and brokering skills to ensure that patients receive benefits and services to which they are entitled, and which are necessary to support their hospitalisation, discharge and future care.

To be eligible for this position, you must have a Certificate 4 in Allied Health Assistance, or Mental Health or Disability or equivalent

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.

**Check(s)**
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)**

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: 839623**

**Enquiries**

Acting Senior Social Worker

Phone: (08) 8366 9600

**Application Closing Date**

18 August 2023 - 11.55PM

**Attachments**

**Advertised**: 04 Aug 2023 Cen. Australia Standard Time



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