Refugee Health Service

• Central Adelaide Local Health Network
• Salary: RN/M4 - $132, $137,771.00 p.a. + Superannuation & Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Salary: AHP4 - $118, $129,427.00 p.a. + Superannuation & Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Adelaide SA, 5000
• Full Time, Contracted Role up to 12 months

About the Role

This is a multi-class position, with classification determined based on the successful candidate's profession, qualifications, experience, and clinical expertise.

Join the Refugee Health Service, South Australia's only state-funded specialist health service supporting newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers. As the Team Manager, you will provide inspirational leadership and operational oversight for a dedicated multidisciplinary team delivering compassionate, culturally responsive care. In this pivotal role, you will guide service delivery, support clinical excellence, and ensure safe, efficient and high-quality healthcare for individuals and families as they settle into life in South Australia.

You will lead a dynamic team across a standalone service site, working closely with administrative staff and key government and non-government partners to ensure seamless and integrated care. Your responsibilities include workforce planning, clinical governance, oversight of service demand, performance monitoring, and ensuring continuity of care. You will champion collaboration, data-driven evaluation, and strategic input into statewide refugee health planning, ensuring services remain responsive to complex health needs and community expectations. This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact program and make a meaningful difference in the lives of people seeking safety and new beginnings.

About You

You are an experienced and values-driven health leader who is committed to delivering culturally responsive, person-centred care and strengthening services that support individuals from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds. With strong strategic thinking, excellent communication skills and a collaborative leadership style, you thrive in complex, fast-paced environments and bring a proactive, compassionate and innovative approach to service delivery. You inspire teams, lead change with confidence, and build positive relationships across diverse stakeholders to achieve high-quality outcomes.

In this role, you will bring:

• Educational/Vocational Qualifications
  
  Refer to the relevant role descriptions below for profession-specific qualification and registration requirements.
• Leadership & Service Excellence
  
  Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, drive organisational change and innovation, foster staff development, manage HR and financial resources, and support consumer-centred models of care, engagement and safety.
• Communication, Collaboration & Influence
  
  Highly developed verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to negotiate, build strong relationships across sectors, resolve conflict, coordinate complex activities and represent the service professionally at all levels.
• Strategic, Clinical & Compliance Knowledge
  
  Sound understanding of contemporary healthcare issues, accreditation and safety standards, legislation and professional codes, with demonstrated ability to apply quality and risk management principles and support continuous improvement.

About CALHN

At Central Adelaide (CALHN), we're shaping the future of health through excellence in clinical care, research, and innovation. As South Australia's largest health network, we deliver exceptional, safe and connected healthcare—for our patients, our community, and our people.

With more than 17,000 dedicated employees, every day at CALHN presents an opportunity to make a real impact—not because it's expected, but because our values guide us to be our best.

Join us and be part of a team that's driven by a commitment to a seamless safe and connected experience for all.

Find out more about our stories , our network, and the opportunities to be part of CALHN.

Benefit of Joining CALHN

At CALHN, we're dedicated to your career satisfaction and wellbeing, offering tailored benefits for healthcare professionals, including:

• Salary Benefits: Enjoy flexible salary packaging options, including up to $9,010 each FBT year for living expenses (such as mortgage, rent, utilities and groceries) plus an additional $2,650 for meal and entertainment expenses.
• Professional Development: Opportunity to apply for reimbursement of eligible professional development activities, and access to dedicated leave for ongoing learning.
• Annual Leave: Enjoy paid recreation leave for essential rejuvenation, with leave loading applied.
• Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program for you and your family, plus an annual voluntary flu vaccination to support your wellbeing.
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counselling and support services for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: 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.
• Employee Recognition: Join a workplace where our people are celebrated through awards for innovation, collaboration, and outstanding contributions to health.
• Career Opportunities: Explore career growth within the SA Health system with opportunities for skill development and movement across various metropolitan and regional sites.

Join CALHN for a fulfilling career bolstered by comprehensive benefits and unwavering commitment to your success.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

CALHN is an Equal Opportunities employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community.

Application Information:

• Please refer to the role description for essential educational/vocational qualifications that may be required.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and compliant Immunisation screening as indicated in the role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Please note that unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies or third parties will not be accepted for this position.

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Enquiries to:

Lauren Badenoch

Position: Manager Integrated Care- Executive Services

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Application Closing Date

11:55 pm Monday 25th November 2025

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