Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

**Job no**: 811995
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide CBD
**Categories**: Aboriginal Health
- **Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide**:

- **Salary OPS-4 $74,315/$79,682 (pro rata)**:

- **Full-time temporary up to 31/3/23**

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) 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 particular 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 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing Hub provides emotional, social, and cultural support and clinical care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, escorts and families of CALHN. This includes opportunistic screening, chronic disease management and improved discharge planning to improve continuity of care in the primary care sector.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner ( the Practitioner) who are is employed as part of the Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Hub will work within the acute health care setting to embed a stronger and more sustainable approach to support Aboriginal patients who are inpatients, or attending outpatients or other program areas as directed, through providing an ‘Aboriginal lens’ to health care and delivering culturally safe acute and ongoing Health care, and improve discharge planning. In collaboration with the inpatient multidisciplinary teams the Practitioner will assess and provide clinical intervention to Aboriginal patients, including those with complex needs. The service they provide will aim to increase cultural safety and reduce the risk of Aboriginal patients disengaging with treatment and care plans. They will provide culturally supportive acute and sub-acute health responses, support hospital avoidance and advise on length of stay in the acute sector and closer to home services.

Must have AHPRA recognised Certificate IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care (Practice) or equivalent. Must hold registration with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board of Australia (part of AHPRA)

**Benefits of Working at CALHN**
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, and a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Central Adelaide Local Health Network.
- Salary packaging: Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
- Diversity and inclusion: CALHN 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.
- Flexible working arrangements: Voluntary flexible working provisions have been introduced to enable CALHN employees to better balance work, personal life and family commitments.
- Opportunity for movement across the SA Health system: There are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and your career at one of our many metropolitan or regional sites

**About CALHN**

We’re looking for talented staff to join us and help us to shape the future of health through world-class care and world-class research and achieve our vision of being in the top 50 health services in the world and top 5 in Australia.

Each day presents our nearly 15,000 employees with an opportunity to perform at their best, not because they are expected to, but because they want to as they work together to achieve our strategic ambitions. Together we’re committed to delivering the very best in care for the community in line with our organisation’s values.

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network includes South’s Australia’s major quaternary facility, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre and the Repat Health Precinct. We also deliver mental health services at Glenside Health Services and at a range of other locations across the metropolitan area.

Our Statewide clinical services include BreastScreen SA, SA Pathology, SA Medical Imaging and SA Pharmacy. Community health services include SA Dental (including School Dental Services), SA Prison Health and Donate Life SA.

**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