Area Clinical Team Leader

**Job no**: 902048
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Southern
**Categories**: Emergency Services and Emergency Management
- **Salary: ACTL 5.3-5.4 / $138,976.00 - $142, 282.00 p.a.**:

- **Full Time / Ongoing**:

- **5168 / Noarlunga Centre**

**About Us**:
SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is South Australia’s provider of emergency ambulance transport, clinical care, and patient transport services.

We are committed to ensuring South Australia has access to the best possible emergency medical care, non-emergency transport, and rescue and retrieval services.
- Our Vision_: An innovative, patient focused, technology enabled, evidence driven, emergency response and health care ambulance service; achieved by exceptional people.
- Our Mission_: Providing emergency response and health care ambulance services within South Australia, designed and development around patient and community needs, enabling timely and equitable access for our patients to the most appropriate point of care.
- Our Purpose_: To ensure South Australia thrives by enabling access to emergency and non-emergency ambulance health care and alternative patient pathways while contributing to our state’s emergency preparedness and health response capability.

**Our Values**:
**_ PATIENT FOCUSED_**: We will put our patients and the safe and quality care we provide them first; in everything we do.

**_TEAMWORK_**_:_ We will work across SAAS, our health system, our partners, stakeholders and the community to achieve our goals.

**_ INTEGRITY AND HONESTY_**_:_ We accept and uphold the standards and expectations of our organisation and communities.

**_RESPECT AND COURTESY:_** We will always be respectful and courteous toward our patients, each other, and all those we work with.

**_COMMUNITY COLLABORATION_**: We value our role in the community, and we value the communities we serve.

**_CHANGE READY_**: We know our communities’ needs will evolve and we must adapt to meet them.

**_AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP:_** We will support leadership development for our people at every level.
- It is the responsibility of the Area Clinical Team Leader to ensure Team members deliver quality patient care through the provision of effective and efficient management of operational, clinical, people and WHS issues. Manage and be responsible for a designated operations team ensuring that the community’s needs and requirements are met by the effective delivery of services. Provide leadership to an operating team of the Emergency Ambulance Service and ensure all clinical standards are achieved in a professional manner and within SAAS clinical governance framework and Patient Care Protocols.

**What We Offer**:

- Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment with a culture of inclusion and diversity.
- Giving back to the people of South Australia Play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
- We take care of you Access to a range of staff and wellness support programs

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Clinical Knowledge/Support and Development:

- Maintain ICP (Intensive Care Paramedic) scope of practice and demonstrate clinical leadership
- Ensure team compliance with clinical policies, procedures, and guidelines
- Improve clinical practice through training, education, and evidence-based learning
- Facilitate clinical feedback and auditing of team members
- Mentor and support team members in developing patient-centric attitudes and practices

Team Leadership:

- Assist in managing human, financial, and capital resources effectively
- Promote strategic focus and align team direction with SAAS strategic plan
- Contribute to the Metropolitan Management Team
- Support staff in achieving personal goals and maximizing their potential
- Resolve conflicts within a supportive framework

Operational Management:

- Monitor team progress in meeting SAAS performance standards
- Maintain a safe working environment and ensure staff competency
- Implement SAAS Performance Management program and staff development plans
- Ensure compliance with legislative requirements and SAAS policies
- Manage portfolios/projects, systems, and processes for continuous improvement

Stakeholder Engagement:

- Assist in encouraging stakeholder input and feedback
- Ensure stakeholder feedback is acknowledged and actioned as required

Occupational Health, Safety, and Welfare:

- Undertake effective WHS supervision and ensure compliance with SAAS WHS management system
- Disseminate OHS&W information and provide relevant training to staff
- Facilitate consultative processes regarding WHS issues between management and staff

Risk Management:

- Identify, evaluate, and recommend corrective actions for hazards
- Investigate hazards and incidents, maintain documentation, and oversee corrective actions
- Assist in developing WHS procedures for risk management specific to the work area
- Ensure the provision and maintenance of safety systems and PPE

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