Team Leader

**Job no**: 877352
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Community Services, Aboriginal Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin Hospital - Elizabeth Vale**:

- **Salary**: OPS5 - $82,090 - $87,758 p.a. / OPS6 - $90,604 - $95,143 p.a.**:

- **Ongoing Full-Time**

**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.

**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 dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic 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**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Team Leader within the Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Health Service.

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) has a strong commitment to the provision of accessible, effective and meaningful services to the Aboriginal communities, families and individuals from metropolitan, rural and remote areas. It also acknowledges the cultural determinants and complexities affecting the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people and the need for a holistic and multi-faceted health approach to service design and delivery.

SA Health is leading significant reform designed to improve the health of all South Australians and meet future challenges, in accordance with the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan and Close the Gap initiatives. The Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Health Service of NALHN delivers primary health care to Aboriginal people through contemporary best practice models of health care.

The Team Leader - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners is a leadership role within the primary healthcare setting to implement and embed a stronger and more sustainable approach to support Aboriginal clinical workforce. The incumbent will enable culturally sensitive healthcare to clients across the continuum of health services, through leadership and by providing an ‘Aboriginal lens’ to healthcare and delivering cultural safe care. In collaboration with the multidisciplinary teams will assess and provide clinical intervention to Aboriginal clients/ consumers, including those with complex needs. The Team Leader-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners will support and guide multi-disciplinary team members in developing culturally appropriate interventions. The service they provide will aim to reduce the risk of Aboriginal clients disengaging with treatment and care plans. Support hospit