Allied Health Assistant

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 878015
**Location**: 5092 - MODBURY
**Job status**: Casual
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Modbury Hospital - Modbury**:

- **Salary**: $30.01 - $32.28 per hour + 25% loading** - AHA2** - Casual Pool, up to 30 June 2025**

**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 (both elective and emergency), obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, mental health, oncology, geriatric medicine, palliative care and rehabilitation. Increasingly these are provided across a range of hospital, community and home-based settings.

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.

**Our Local Health Network Sites and Services**:
Lyell McEwin Hospital **-** The major hospital in the north and north-east for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital **-** A general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.

**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.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Allied Health Assistant 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.

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

**About the Role**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking Allied Health Assistants to join the Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care Division.

As an Allied Health Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting our dedicated team of healthcare professionals in delivering exceptional care to our patients. Your responsibilities will include assisting with patient transfers, personal care, and maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for those in need.

Working in the Aged Care, Rehabilitation & Palliative Care Division, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients during their most vulnerable moments. Your empathy, patience, and commitment to providing quality care will be invaluable assets in this role.

To be eligible for this position, you must possess or be currently undertaking Certificate 3 in Allied Health Assistance.

**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 A (direct 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: 878015**

**Enquiries**:
Megan Dundon

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