Play Coordinator

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 884334
**Location**: 5112 - ELIZABETH VALE
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin Hospital - Elizabeth Vale**:

- **Salary**: $1128.60 - $1140.30 per week **(pro rata)** **plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits** **- WHA4**:

- **Temporary Part-Time - working 24 hours per week, up to 27 June 2025**

**About the Role**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking a passionate and experienced Play Coordinator to join our dedicated team within the Children's Ward. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of children and their families during their hospital stay.

As the Play Coordinator, you will be responsible for creating and implementing engaging play activities that cater to the diverse needs and developmental stages of hospitalised children. Your role will involve designing and facilitating age-appropriate play programs, ensuring a safe and stimulating environment that fosters emotional well-being, cognitive development, and social interaction.

As the Play Coordinator, you will play a vital role in enhancing the hospital experience for children, helping them cope with the challenges of hospitalisation through the power of play.

To be eligible for this position, you must hold AQF Certificate III relevant to employee’s position.

**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.

Strong communication skills, creativity, and the ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams are essential.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.

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.

**Check(s)**:

- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (e.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is **-** Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)**

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job Ref: 884334**

**Enquiries**:
Jo Lawlor

Nurse Manager

Phone: (08) 8182 9415

**Application Closing Date**:
22 November 2024 **-** 11.55PM

**Role Description**:
884334 - Play Coordinator - Children's Ward - WHA4 - role description.pdf

**Flexibility Statement**
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 this role.