Allied Health Assistant

**Job no**: 863710
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Northern Mental Health - Oakden**:

- **Salary**: $66,590 - $70,968 p.a.** - AHA3; Permanent Full-Time - 37.50 hours per week**

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit an Allied Health Assistant to work in our dynamic, growing and supportive team, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.

**About Us**:
Located on Kaurna Country, in the North and North-Eastern Suburbs of Adelaide, close to the world-famous Barossa Valley wine region, and within 30 minutes of the CBD, NALHN serves more than 400 000 people at the Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals, along with our state-of-the-art Specialist Ambulatory Rehabilitation Centre and our community and home-based sites. The network boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. 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.

In addition this, other benefits of working as an Allied Health Assistant in NALHN include:

- Professional development opportunities. We have a well established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and staff are also eligible for external, funded professional development via the Allied Health Professionals Plus Professional Development Reimbursement Program, to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations;
- Opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research.
- Regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals;
**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.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

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

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

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