Allied Health Assistant

**Job no**: 891289
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Modbury Hospital - Modbury**:

- **Salary**: $58,709 - $63,154 p.a.**(pro rata)** **plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits** **- AHA2**:

- **Ongoing Part-Time - working 30 hours per week**

**About the Role**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking a dedicated Allied Health Assistant to join our team within the Northern Adelaide Geriatric Service.

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a skilled team of healthcare professionals, providing essential support to our geriatric patients. Your responsibilities will include assisting with patient transfers, meal service and ensuring a safe and comfortable environment for our elderly community.

As an Allied Health Assistant, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the overall patient experience and supporting their journey towards improved well-being. Your exceptional interpersonal skills, coupled with your ability to demonstrate empathy and patience, will be invaluable in building trusting relationships with our patients and their families.

To be eligible for this position, you must possess or be currently undertaking Certificate 3 in Allied Health Assistance or equivalent.

**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.

**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.

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.

**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: 891289**

**Enquiries**:
Office of Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care

Phone: (08) 7321 4232

**Application Closing Date**:
31 January 2025 **-** 11.55PM

**Role Description and Further Information**:
**Advertised**: 17 Jan 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 31 Jan 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time