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Allied Health Assistant - Home Rehabilitation Opportunity!

Join SALHN as an Allied Health Assistant for the Home Rehabilitation service, making a real difference in patients' lives by supporting their recovery journey from hospital to home across Adelaide's southern suburbs. This position at Flinders Medical Centre offers you the opportunity to work alongside experienced allied health professionals whilst gaining valuable experience in South Australia's largest public health system. Be part of our innovative home rehabilitation team where you'll help patients regain their independence through meaningful therapeutic support, all whilst enjoying competitive benefits and comprehensive training in a values-driven organisation committed to excellence in patient care.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Manager Home, Outreach and TeleRehabilitation, some of your duties for the role will include:

• Provide specific therapeutic interventions under direction of AHP staff
• Tasks may include installing prescribed equipment, assistance with self-care tasks and carrying out specified components of rehabilitation programs such as exercise, mobility activities or therapeutic groups
• Monitoring patient response to therapies and reporting to the supervising AHP
• Assisting patients and carers to use telehealth equipment
• Assisting patient preparation for therapy and at the conclusion of therapy
• Apply screening assessments, treatments and use standardised assessment tools to initiate changes to treatments under the direction of AHP staff
• Provide basic education to patients/groups of patients as directed by AHP staff on discreet topics

About you:

• Must possess or be undertaking a Certificate 3 in Allied Health Assistance or equivalent
• Sound communication and interpersonal skills – able to demonstrate the ability to work with people from a variety of cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• Ability to work in a physically demanding environment to assist patient therapy and / or handling of patient related equipment and devices
• Capacity to work flexibly across a range of therapeutic and program related activities

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Lauren Bate, Manager Home, Outreach and TeleRehabilitation, (08) 8404 2290, Lauren.Bate@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Tuesday 2nd September 2025 

Attachments:

• 913073 Allied Health Assistant - Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• 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.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• 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: 913073