SAAS MedSTAR Retrieval Registrar General Service 2026

• Salary: MDP2 / $89, $144,291.00
• Full Time / Term Contract (up to 12 Months)
• 5950 - Adelaide Airport

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 Retrieval Registrar will work with an experienced Retrieval Paramedic or Nurse colleague to deliver high quality, patient focused care to critically injured adults and children. Responding by helicopter, rapid response road vehicle or turbo prop fixed wing aircraft. The Retrieval Registrar will bring experience in a critical care medical discipline to patients in both the pre-hospital and inter-facility transport and retrieval environments.

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:

Deliver Critical Clinical Care and Patient Transport

- Function as a medical team member alongside paramedics or nurses to stabilise and safely transport critically injured and ill patients across all age groups in pre-hospital and retrieval environments, utilising road, rotary wing, and fixed wing transport throughout South Australia and occasionally interstate or overseas.

Participate in Operational Retrieval Services

- Maintain active participation in the operational retrieval shift roster, working 10 or 12-hour shifts across day, evening, and night duties, including on-call periods, while providing high-level clinical advice and logistical coordination under Medical Retrieval Consultant supervision.

Maintain Clinical Equipment Readiness and Safety Standards

- Ensure all SAAS MedSTAR clinical equipment remains in optimal working condition through regular checking procedures, maintaining comprehensive knowledge of medical equipment functions and emergency pack contents, troubleshooting issues, and participating in equipment restoration processes.

Support Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement Initiatives

- Actively participate in SAAS MedSTAR's audit and quality assurance processes by conducting ongoing work practice reviews, entering clinical and operational data, participating in daily case review meetings, and contributing to evidence-based policy and procedure development.

Ensure Compliance and Professional Documentation Standards

- Complete comprehensive patient care documentation and computerised retrieval records, while adhering to all relevant procedures, policies, regulations, and standards including workplace health and safety, equal employment opportunity, and contemporary human resource management requirements.

Promote Service Excellence and Emergency Preparedness

- Foster professionalism, integrity, innovation, and collaboration while maintaining a positive image of SA Ambulance Service's emergency retrieval portfolio, and contribute to South Australia's disaster preparedness through participation in counter-disaster activities, training programmes, and emergency response exercises.

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: 912996

Enquiries to: Angela Amato, Operational Support Coordinator / 

Application Closing Date - Friday 10 October 2025 @ 11:55pm

Attachments

Retrieval Registrar P10875 [MDP2].pdf

Australian applicant guidelines

International applicant guidelines