Rehabilitation Consultant

**Job no**: 892811
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Southern
**Categories**: Medical, Public Health
- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - Flinders Medical Centre - Rehabilitation, Aged and Palliative Care
- Total Indicative Remuneration Package: $365,798 - $619,164 MD02 (pro rata) | Part Time 26.25 hours p.w. - 12 month contract

**Join our Rehabilitation team as a Consultant and help support our commitment to quality patient care.**

The Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN) provides several inpatient rehabilitation services in dedicated spaces across Flinders Medical Centre, Noarlunga Hospital, and Repat Health Precinct.

These services aim to provide a bridge between hospital stay and return to the community, bringing together skilled staff from a variety of areas to support every area of the patient’s care.

**About the role**:
Reporting to the Head of Unit - Rehabilitation Medicine, this role is will be working on Rehabilitation services (wards, ambulatory programs, triage and inreach), rehabilitation outpatient clinics, and outreach services to country SA rehabilitation units.

Duties for the role will include:

- Providing treatments and assessment for outpatients referred to the Rehabilitation service in an area agreed with the Director,
- Provide a high quality clinical service and clinical leadership by providing appropriate specialist level care to patients,
- Participating in the training program provided to rehabilitation trainees in Southern Adelaide (expectation is one hour per week is spent with each trainee supervised and in addition attendance at group teaching sessions,
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuous service improvement by participating in departmental peer review and audit activities.

**About you**:

- Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent.
- Appropriate Specialist Qualifications and registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with Specialist registration (Rehabilitation Medicine); or another qualification as defined in the SA Medical Officers Award,
- Demonstrated high standard of clinical practice in Rehabilitation Medicine,
- Experience with the supervision and teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff,
- Demonstrated participation in approved continuing medical education since attaining specialist qualification,
- Experience with the supervision and teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff,
- Extensive clinical experience relevant to work in Rehabilitation Medicine.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

**Application Closing Date**:**11.55 pm Monday 10th February 2024

**Attachments**:

- Rehabilitation Consultant - Role Description
- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines

**Applicant Information**:

- Note: The Indicative Total Remuneration is inclusive of Award salary, Superannuation, and other monetary benefits. We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
- 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.
- 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**:892811**

**Advertised**: 24 Jan 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 10 Feb 2025 11:55 PM Cen. Australia Daylight Time