Saas Medstar Retrieval Fellow Aug 25

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 903161
**Location**: 5950 - ADELAIDE AIRPORT
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Salary: MDP2 / $89,253.00 - $144,291.00 p.a.**:

- **Salary: MDP3 / $148,753.00 - $154,702.00 p.a.**:

- **Full Time / Term Contract (Until 1 February 2026)**:

- **5950 / Adelaide Airport**

**About Us**:
SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is South Australia's provider of emergency ambulance transport, clinical care, and patient transport services.

We are committed to ensuring South Australia has access to the best possible emergency medical care, non-emergency transport, and rescue and retrieval services.
- Our Vision_: An innovative, patient focused, technology enabled, evidence driven, emergency response and health care ambulance service; achieved by exceptional people.
- Our Mission_: Providing emergency response and health care ambulance services within South Australia, designed and development around patient and community needs, enabling timely and equitable access for our patients to the most appropriate point of care.
- Our Purpose_: To ensure South Australia thrives by enabling access to emergency and non-emergency ambulance health care and alternative patient pathways while contributing to our state's emergency preparedness and health response capability.

**Our Values**:
**_ PATIENT FOCUSED_**: We will put our patients and the safe and quality care we provide them first; in everything we do.

**_TEAMWORK_**_:_ We will work across SAAS, our health system, our partners, stakeholders and the community to achieve our goals.

**_ INTEGRITY AND HONESTY_**_:_ We accept and uphold the standards and expectations of our organisation and communities.

**_RESPECT AND COURTESY:_** We will always be respectful and courteous toward our patients, each other, and all those we work with.

**_COMMUNITY COLLABORATION_**: We value our role in the community, and we value the communities we serve.

**_CHANGE READY_**: We know our communities' needs will evolve and we must adapt to meet them.

**_AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP:_** We will support leadership development for our people at every level.

**Experience in pre-hospital and retrieval medicine including six months in a Retrieval Registrar role at MedSTAR and Drivers Licence Required.**

The Retrieval Fellow will work with an experienced Retrieval Paramedic or Nurse colleague to deliver high quality, patient focussed care to critically injured adults and children. Responding by helicopter, rapid response road vehicle or turbo prop fixed wing aircraft.

With support, the Retrieval Fellow will also participate in retrieval and transport clinical coordination, take a leading role in service Clinical Governance and quality assurance activities, educate and mentor less experienced medical staff within the service and collaboratively lead service pre-hospital and retrieval research activities.

**What We Offer**:

- Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment with a culture of inclusion and diversity.
- Giving back to the people of South Australia Play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
- We take care of you Access to a range of staff and wellness support programs

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Perform clinical duties for the retrieval service, including providing high-level clinical advice, coordinating logistics, and ensuring appropriate patient prioritization, transport, and destination.**

**Collaborate with various stakeholders, such as SAAS, RFDS, referring facilities, and transport teams, to ensure effective patient movement and alignment of resources.**

**Participate in the Medical Retrieval and Clinical Coordination roster, providing clinical advice and coordination during operations.**

**Function as a medical team member, stabilizing and safely transporting critically injured or ill patients in pre-hospital and retrieval environments.**

**Participate in equipment checking procedures, troubleshooting, and restoration to ensure readiness of MedSTAR clinical equipment.**

**Contribute to MedSTAR's audit and quality assurance processes, including case reviews, policy development, research projects, and incident reporting.**

**Application Information**:

- 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.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

**Job ref: 903161**

**Attachments**

**Retrieval Fellow [MDP2] - Role Description.pdf**

**Retrieval Fellow [MDP3] - Role Description.pdf**

**Australian applicant guidelines**

**International applicant guidelines**

**Flexibility Statement**
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