- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
- Various Locations – Region wide incl. Gawler, Mount Barker and Victor Harbor
- Salary: AHP3 - $112,139 p.a. - $120,284 p.a. pro rata + benefits
- Multiple Positions, Full & Part Time, Ongoing & Temporary
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
Ready to take the next step in your OT career? BHFLHN is seeking experienced clinicians to deliver advanced, person-centred care and lead impactful service innovation across the region. Read on to find out more about the exciting opportunities available.
Senior Occupational Therapist Geriatric Outreach: As a valued member of the Complex Transitional Care team, this role offers an exciting opportunity to lead the implementation and expansion of the Geriatric Outreach Service across the network.
You will play a key role in advancing dementia care, building workforce capability, and developing innovative, person-centred models. Responsibilities include delivering individualised, non-pharmacological interventions and providing specialist dementia education and guidance to staff. You will support best practice, optimise care environments, and facilitate safe transitions between acute and residential care settings.
The role also involves contributing to service improvement through KPI monitoring, data collection, and outcome analysis, with opportunities to influence statewide service development, workforce planning, and new models of care
This role services locations region wide including Gawler, Mount Barker and Victor Harbor and is being offered on a Temporary basis, full-time until 30 June 2027.
Clinical Senior Occupational Therapist Gawler Health Service: Deliver high-level OT care in a fast-paced ED (Gawler Hospital), supporting safe discharge, mentoring staff, and leading quality improvement and practice innovation. The role also provides leadership through mentoring and supervising staff and students, while driving innovation, quality improvement, and research initiatives to strengthen and advance occupational therapy practice. This role is being offered ongoing, Part-time (0.5FTE).
WHO ARE WE?
The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network offers opportunities across our sites, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Do you have a strong commitment to delivering high-quality, evidence-based Occupational Therapy practice?
- Do you hold a genuine passion for clinical leadership, mentoring, and supporting multidisciplinary teams to build capability and deliver consistent, person-centred care across diverse settings?
- Are you keen to drive and lead service development and innovation, including designing, implementing, and evaluating new models of care that improve system efficiency and patient outcomes?
- Are you motivated to work collaboratively across acute, sub-acute, community, and aged care sectors, building strong partnerships with clinicians, services, and external stakeholders?
- Are you committed to continuous improvement, research, and reflective practice, with a focus on strengthening clinical standards, workforce development, and service quality?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
You will……….
- Apply specialist expertise with a high level of professional independence to deliver complex clinical and consultancy services, using in-depth knowledge of organisational priorities to guide service development, innovation, and practice improvement.
- Deliver complex services with autonomy, providing expert advice, leading teams, and driving development and improvement across the network.
- Promote respectful, client-centred and culturally safe care by partnering with stakeholders and communities, including Aboriginal consumers, to enhance service quality, improve health outcomes, and embed meaningful consumer engagement across service planning, delivery, and evaluation.
- Support effective service delivery through accurate documentation, informed decision-making, and efficient use of resources, systems, and projects.
- Provide strategic leadership to support workforce planning, collaboration, and high-quality, integrated care aligned with BHFLHN priorities.
- Lead continuous improvement and service evaluation through innovation, risk management, research, and ethical practice to enhance quality, safety, and system-level outcomes.
WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN?
At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year Click here more information
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities.
- Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program.
- Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS?
Working in this environment requires the highest levels of integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community. To support this, all applicants will be required to complete pre-employment checks, as outlined in the Role Description
and also likely to include the following:
- You will need to undergo employment screening, what you require is also on the front page of the Role Description.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees and therefore we encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community. We continually look for ways to support and promote diversity and flexible ways of working so please let us know what interests you.
NEED TO RELOCATE?
Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health. Find out more about working in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, and see what it looks like to work and live in regional Australia at: https://movetomore.com.au/
HELP IS HERE!
Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (job ref: 937545), or reach out to Shaveta Gupta on Phone: 8521 2080 or via email: shaveta.gupta@sa.gov.au
To find out what you need to apply, and what is required to be offered a role, please refer to the Applicant Checklist BHFLHN Applicant Checklist.pdf. Please also click here for our Australian applicant guidelines
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DON’T HESITATE! Applications will close on 17 June 2026 at 11.55 PM.
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
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