- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Total Indicative Remuneration: $118,024 - $190,058 p.a. (MDP2)
- Temporary Full-Time, up to 31 January 2028
Are you ready to elevate your Gastroenterology career and immerse yourself in one of the most dynamic and evolving subspecialties in medicine?
We’re offering an exceptional opportunity for a Gastroenterology Registrar (Advanced Trainee – Year 3 equivalent) to join a high-performing, collaborative team delivering cutting-edge care across the Northern suburbs of Adelaide. This role places you at the forefront of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) management—one of the most rapidly advancing areas in modern gastroenterology.
About the Role
Lyell McEwin Hospital is one of South Australia's busiest metropolitan health services, and its Gastroenterology unit offers advanced trainees a genuinely broad clinical experience.
As a Gastroenterology Advanced Trainee Year 3, you will work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) delivering specialist gastroenterology care across inpatient and outpatient settings.
The position will focus specifically on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) – subspecialty clinic attendance, IBD multidisciplinary team meetings and intestinal ultrasound training. The candidate will also have exposure to hepatology – high-volume inpatient and outpatient liver disease management, participation in liver disease clinics as well as exposure to motility disorders including training in and reporting manometry studies. In addition, when the opportunity arises, the candidate will be exposed to interventional endoscopy procedures.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing a complex gastroenterology inpatient caseload under consultant supervision
- Performing and developing competency in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures
- Contributing to outpatient clinics, including inflammatory bowel disease and hepatology services
- Participating in on-call responsibilities, teaching of junior medical staff, and unit quality improvement activities
To be eligible for this position, you must hold a Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent, registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with General Registration.
As per the SA Health Salaried Medical Officers Enterprise Agreement 2025, the total term of employment with SA Health will be 3 years. Rotations following the initial 12 month allocation as Medical Practitioner will be determined in line with your training and SA Health’s requirements. This may include transfer to other SA Health locations to perform work appropriate to classification, skills and capabilities.
The Total Indicative Remuneration figure is calculated taking into account base salary, leave loading and superannuation as well as managerial allowances, professional development or any other allowances where appropriate.
About You:
You’re a motivated and capable advanced trainee who is ready to step confidently into a role that balances clinical excellence, leadership, and subspecialty growth.
You will bring:
- Clinical capability and ambition
- Strong grounding in gastroenterology with a passion for IBD and complex digestive disorders
- Demonstrated competence and experience in endoscopy procedures
- A drive to specialise and innovate
- Genuine interest in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, intestinal ultrasound, or advanced gastroenterology techniques
- Commitment to expanding procedural and diagnostic expertise
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging therapies and models of care
- Leadership and teamwork
- Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams
- Confidence mentoring junior staff and contributing to a positive team culture
- Strong communication skills with patients, families, and colleagues
- Commitment to excellence
- A proactive approach to quality improvement, teaching, and professional development
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic clinical environment
- A passion for delivering patient-centred, high-quality care
- Research or academic interest (desirable)
- An interest in research, audit, or higher degree study would be highly regarded
You will be joining a dynamic and expanding Local Health Network that is committed to delivering contemporary, innovative and high‑quality health services within modern facilities.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.
About Adelaide:
Adelaide is consistently recognised as a city that artfully combines its compact charm and world-class cuisine with picturesque nature escapes. Ranked one of the worlds “Most Liveable Cities” and “Most Beautiful Cities”, Adelaide provides something for everyone combining a wonderful mix of nature with nearby beaches, rolling hills and wildlife and culinary delights with fine dining restaurants, award-winning cafes, bustling food markets and booming boutique bars. Events like the LIV Golf, SANTOS Tour Down Under, Adelaide Fringe and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival add extra appeal to living here.
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.
NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.
With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.
With over 7,000 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:
NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide’s north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.
Lyell McEwin Hospital – the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.
Modbury Hospital – a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.
Mental Health Services – adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.
Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services – provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.
Primary Health Care Services – including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.
SA Health is 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, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence.
We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if you have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.
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.
Checks:
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances
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: 937683
Enquiries:
Surgical Medical Administration
Phone: (08) 8282 1251
E-mail: Health.NALHNDSSAMMF@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
3 July 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
937683 - Gastroenterology Registrar (Advanced Trainee 3) - MDP2 - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
