Principal Employee and Industrial Relations Consultant

• Salary: ASO7 / $108, $116,864.00 p.a.
• Full Time / Term Contract (up until 18 Sep 2026)
• EASTWOOD / 5063

About Us:

SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is South Australia's provider of emergency ambulance transport, clinical care, and patient transport services.

We are committed to ensuring South Australia has access to the best possible emergency medical care, non-emergency transport, and rescue and retrieval services.

Our Vision: An innovative, patient focused, technology enabled, evidence driven, emergency response and health care ambulance service; achieved by exceptional people.

Our Mission: Providing emergency response and health care ambulance services within South Australia, designed and development around patient and community needs, enabling timely and equitable access for our patients to the most appropriate point of care.

Our Purpose: To ensure South Australia thrives by enabling access to emergency and non-emergency ambulance health care and alternative patient pathways while contributing to our state's emergency preparedness and health response capability.

Our Values:

PATIENT FOCUSED: We will put our patients and the safe and quality care we provide them first; in everything we do.

TEAMWORK: We will work across SAAS, our health system, our partners, stakeholders and the community to achieve our goals.

INTEGRITY AND HONESTY: We accept and uphold the standards and expectations of our organisation and communities.

RESPECT AND COURTESY: We will always be respectful and courteous toward our patients, each other, and all those we work with.

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION: We value our role in the community, and we value the communities we serve.

CHANGE READY: We know our communities' needs will evolve and we must adapt to meet them.

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: We will support leadership development for our people at every level.

The Principal Employee and Industrial Relations Consultant is accountable to the Employee and Industrial Relations Manager for leading specific industrial relations activities and projects and the delivery of an effective and responsive operational industrial relations advisory and consultancy service to SAAS.

To support this critical objective the Principal Employee and Industrial Relations Consultant will ensure the establishment and maintenance of positive and constructive employee and industrial relations with all relevant stakeholders, including staff and unions for SAAS.

What We Offer:

• Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment with a culture of inclusion and diversity.
• Giving back to the people of South Australia Play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
• We take care of you Access to a range of staff and wellness support programs

Key Responsibilities:

Lead Complex Industrial Relations Consultancy and Negotiations

Manage and deliver high-quality employee and industrial relations consultancy services, including complex industrial relations advice, negotiations, advocacy, and enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations for SA Ambulance Service.

Provide Executive-Level Strategic Advice and Briefings

Deliver expert advice and briefings to the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Directors within SA Ambulance Service, and other Government agencies on sensitive industrial relations issues that may impact organisational operations.

Represent SA Ambulance Service in Legal and Industrial Proceedings

Provide expert representation and prepare submissions on behalf of SA Ambulance Service in proceedings before State and Federal Tribunals, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and industrial forums with union organisations.

Develop and Implement Workforce Planning Strategies

Contribute to workforce planning, policy development, and reform activities that support organisational priorities, critical shortage areas, and the implementation of SA Health-wide workforce plans and attraction and retention strategies.

Lead Stakeholder Relationship Management and Training Development

Establish and maintain professional relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, develop training programmes to enhance organisational change capability, and lead staff coaching to support effective workforce management practices

Application Information:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply for this role.
• 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.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and/or additional relevant history screening that may be applicable and appropriate Immunisation screening.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Job ref: 915187

Enquiries to: Vanessa Hutchinson, Industrial and Employee Relations Manager - 

Application Closing Date - Thursday, 25 September 2025 @ 11:55pm

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