General Practice Integration Officer

**Introduction**:
About Us

Adelaide Primary Health Network (Adelaide PHN) is an independent, not for profit, primary health care organisation based in Adelaide.

We aim to improve the health and wellbeing of the Adelaide community by coordinating and integrating health and community services and by working in partnership to identify local needs and create strategies in response to keeping people well and out of hospital; improving their experience AND their health outcomes - to deliver on our vision of A Healthier Adelaide by 2030.

Why you should come work with us

Adelaide PHN offers a great range of benefits to our employees, including:

- Competitive remuneration and work-life balance.
- Access to generous not for profit Salary Sacrifice taxation benefits including up to $15,900 for living expenses and $2,650 for meal and entertainment.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Additional paid leave between Christmas and New Year, in addition to annual leave entitlements.
- Generous allowance toward professional development.
- Family friendly and flexible working arrangements.
- Collaboration with passionate likeminded professionals.
- Free Employment Assistance Program.

**Description**:
About the GPIU

The General Practice Integration Unit (GPIU) is a joint collaboration between Adelaide PHN (APHN), and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) and is located in the Central Adelaide metropolitan region.

The GPIU is tasked with improving the continuity of care of people across settings by facilitating and strengthening collaboration, communication and integration between general practice and the hospital.

About the Role

**The GPIO role will involve**:
Fostering and enabling engagement and relationship building between CALHN clinicians and general practice in the Central Adelaide region to promote seamless patient transition across the health care system.

Working with General Practitioners to improve the quality of clinical handover from primary to acute care in the CALHN region.

Working with the CALHN services to improve the quality and timeliness of clinical handover on discharge back to the person’s usual General Practitioner.

Timely actioning of escalated/complex queries from general practices relating to unclear or missing CALHN correspondence, clinical plans for patients and waitlist management.

Participating in relevant meetings, workshops and system design processes that have significant general practice and hospital interface requirements and align to the GPIU workplan.

Contributing to newsletters and other forms of communication.

This work will be situated in the GPIU and will be based across the Central metropolitan region (initially within the RAH and potentially the Sefton Park location). The GPIU team also includes a service portfolio lead, another GPIO (0.2FTE) and a clinical nurse.

For more information, you can view the position description here (Seek, Indeed and LinkedIn applicants please go to our website).

**Skills and Experiences**:
You must also be passionate about and committed to driving positive change throughout primary care and improving health outcomes.

In return for your innovative thinking and commitment, you will receive a competitive salary, commensurate with your skills and experience, plus generous salary packaging options, which will significantly boost your overall package.

Additionally, you will enjoy great work-life balance working within a flexible work environment and with an energetic, friendly and highly supportive team

How to Apply

Applications will ONLY be considered when received through our careers portal.

We believe that our people’s differences are what make us great. We value diversity in culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability status, neurodiversity or any other aspect which makes our people unique. We are on our journey to continuously work to call out inequality and bias and encourage real workplace inclusion and diversity.