Activity Supervisor

**Job no**: 877148
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Eastern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health, Mental Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Forensic Mental Health - Glenside**:

- **Salary**: $67,589 - $72,033 p.a.** - AHA3 - Ongoing Full-Time**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical (both elective and emergency), obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, mental health, oncology, geriatric medicine, palliative care and rehabilitation. Increasingly these are provided across a range of hospital, community and home-based settings.

NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

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.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Activity Supervisor 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.

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

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as an Activity Supervisor within Forensic Mental Health.

The Forensic Mental Health Service is a multidisciplinary service that consists of inpatient secure psychiatric beds, Out-patient Service and Psychiatric Clinics, Prison In-Reach Service, Community Team, and Court Assessment Service.

In this role you will work within the forensic inpatients service as a part of the Occupational Therapy team, which is a secure psychiatric hospital providing services primarily to patients who have been declared not guilty by reason of mental impairment or unfit to plead of an offence by the SA court system. Activity Supervisors work across the inpatient service in the acute and rehabilitation units at Oakden (James Nash House/Kenneth O’Brien Rehabilitation Unit) and our intellectual disability / acquired brain injury unit based at Glenside (Tarnanthi). This role is primarily based at Tarnanthi on Glenside Health Services.

Activity Supervisors work with clients with a serious mental illness and/or cognitive impairment (resulting from intellectual disability, acquired brain injury or similar) using a range of appropriate rehabilitation and treatment approaches.

As an Activity Supervisor, you will work alongside occupational therapists, to play a vital role in providing therapeutic activities and rehabilitation programs for forensic mental health patients. Your primary responsibilities will include developing and implementing engaging activities that foster personal growth, skill development, and social interaction. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to ensure a holistic approach to patient care.

To excel in this role, you should possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as a genuine passion for supporting individuals with mental health challenges, intellectual disability and/or brain injury. Experience in mental healt