- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
- Community & Allied Health – Gawler
- Salary: AHP3 $112,139 - $120,284 Per Annum
- Full-Time, Temporary up until 28th May, 2027
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
An exciting short term leadership opportunity for an experienced Allied Health professional to step into a dynamic Team Leader role, driving high-quality, client-centred services across the Local Health Network.
This role offers the opportunity to apply advanced professional expertise within community aged care and disability services across the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network (BHFLHN). Working with a high degree of autonomy, you will deliver complex clinical and consultancy services, provide strategic advice to management, and lead service development to meet evolving community needs. The position plays a key role in shaping innovative, client-centred models of care, ensuring services are accessible, culturally appropriate, and aligned with organisational priorities.
You will lead and support a multidisciplinary team, driving high standards of clinical practice, workforce development, and continuous improvement. The role involves overseeing service delivery, contributing to research and education, managing resources, and engaging closely with stakeholders, including Aboriginal communities, to improve health outcomes. This is a dynamic leadership opportunity for a motivated professional who is passionate about service excellence, collaboration, and making a meaningful impact in regional healthcare.
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.
WHERE AND HOW YOU WILL WORK
From heritage streets to riverside walks, boutique shopping and relaxed café moments, Gawler invites you to slow down, wander a little further, stay a little longer and discover the stories around every corner. Just 43 km north of Adelaide and on the edge of the renowned Barossa Valley, Gawler blends historic charm with vibrant local culture. Planned in 1839 by William Light, the town is rich in character, with grand stone buildings, historic pubs and beautifully preserved streets. Visit Gawler here.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Are you an experienced Allied Health professional with advanced clinical expertise and the ability to deliver complex services while providing strategic advice on service development and redesign?
- Do you have strong leadership skills, with the ability to manage, mentor and inspire multidisciplinary teams to achieve high performance and workforce development outcomes?
- Can you demonstrate strategic thinking and operational acumen, including experience managing programs, analysing performance data, and contributing to planning, budgeting and resource allocation?
- Are you an effective communicator who can build strong partnerships, influence change, and improve service integration and client outcomes across sectors?
- Are you a proactive and innovative professional committed to continuous improvement, cultural safety, and ensuring services are responsive to community needs through evaluation and engagement?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
You will……….
- Provide strong clinical and professional leadership, delivering and overseeing high-quality allied health services while contributing to strategic service planning and redesign.
- Lead and support a multidisciplinary team, fostering a positive culture of collaboration, performance, learning and continuous professional development.
- Drive program performance by managing resources, monitoring activity and budget outcomes, and ensuring services are effective, efficient and aligned with organisational priorities.
- Build and maintain strong partnerships across the health network and wider community to improve service integration, continuity of care, and client outcomes.
- Champion continuous improvement by leading innovation, supporting evaluation and research activities, and ensuring services are responsive to community needs and uphold quality and safety standards.
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, it is important to us that we only employ people with the upmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are 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: 943310), or reach out to Adam Caruana, Restorative Aged Care Lead on Phone: 0435 006 336 or via E-mail: adam.caruana@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 close Monday 20th July at 11.55pm
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
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