Allied Health Assistant

**Job no**: 913887
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin Hospital - Elizabeth Vale**:

- **Salary: $61,057 - $65,680 p.a.**(pro rata)**plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits - AHA2**:

- **Temporary Part-Time - working 7.5 hours per week, up to 30 June 2026**

Are you passionate about making a real difference in people's lives through nutrition and health? The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit an Allied Health Assistant to work in our dynamic, growing and supportive team, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.

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

In this role, you'll support our dietetics team in delivering high-quality nutritional care to patients across various clinical settings. This role offers excellent exposure to diverse patient populations and the opportunity to develop your skills within a supportive, multidisciplinary environment.

You'll work alongside experienced dietitians and healthcare professionals, contributing to patient assessments, implementing nutrition care plans and supporting community health initiatives. This position provides valuable hands-on experience in clinical dietetics whilst making a tangible impact on patient wellbeing.

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

**About You**:
To be successful in this role, you should possess genuine enthusiasm for nutrition and patient care, strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within our multidisciplinary 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.

Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways.

Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:
“My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care.”

“I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service.”

“I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support.”

**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.

In addition to this, other benefits of working as an Allied Health Assistant in NALHN include:

- professional development opportunities. We have a well established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and staff are also eligible for external, funded professional development via the Allied Health Professionals Plus Professional Development Reimbursement Program, to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations
- opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research
- regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicant