Exercise Physiologist

**Job no**: 910838
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health, Mental Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Modbury Hospital - Modbury**:

- **Salary/Total Indicative Remuneration**: $104,180 - $111,746 p.a.**plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits**:

- **AHP 3 - Ongoing - Part-time (18.75 hours per week)**

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) are eager to recruit a Senior Exercise Physiologist to join our dedicated team at our brand-new Modbury Mental Health Rehab Unit, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.

**About the Role**:
The Modbury Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (MMHRU) offers contemporary, evidence based, and high-quality rehabilitation services. As a part of the multidisciplinary team you will play a key role in delivering person
- centred, trauma-informed care within a collaborative environment. You will deliver rehabilitation services that are compassionate, solution focused, promoting skill development, social inclusion, and supporting consumers to achieve their recovery goals. You will work in close connection with both Wondakka (Community Rehabilitation Center) and The Gully services, supporting mental health rehabilitation service innovation and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and co-design.

You will be responsible for the development, implementation, coordination and evaluation of quality Exercise Physiology services for consumers of the Modbury Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit and participate as a member of the rehabilitation team within the broader Mental Health Rehabilitation Services. Optimal care and outcomes are ensured by providing a comprehensive range of exercise physiology services to consumers receiving inpatient rehabilitation.

You will work in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team, to effectively plan and provide therapeutic interventions based on consumer goals. This may involve consultation and liaison with the team, other professional disciplines and external organisations. You will be accountable for your practice standards, activities delegated to others and the guidance and development of less experienced staff. You will assists in the provision and management of a service particularly in the areas of:

- Supporting exercise physiology staff, students and relevant Allied Health Assistants.
- Improving exercise physiology, policy, procedures, guidelines and practices

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.

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.”

**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.

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. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

In addition to this, other benefits of working as an Occupational Therapist in NALHN include:

- professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-q