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• Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network 
  
  
• Location – Victor Harbor 
  
  
• Salary: AHP3 - $112,139 - $120,284 per annum (adjusted to actual hours worked) + Super + Benefits
  
  
• Temporary, Part-time, (0.8 FTE / 30 hours per week) up to 1 October 2027 

WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?  

This temporary senior Occupational Therapy leadership role offers a unique opportunity to step into a high-impact position shaping and delivering complex clinical and consultancy services across the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network. Working with a high degree of professional autonomy, you will apply advanced clinical expertise and strategic insight to support service delivery, guide practice development, and contribute to system-wide improvements. You will play a key role in advising leadership on service redesign, establishing clinical protocols, and ensuring services are responsive to community needs, with a strong focus on culturally safe, person-centred care. 

In this time-limited role, you will drive workforce capability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will lead and support Occupational Therapists through supervision, education, and mentoring, while building strong partnerships across disciplines and services. With involvement in research, service evaluation, and strategic planning, you will make a meaningful contribution to the direction and performance of Occupational Therapy services, delivering lasting impact for patients, teams, and the broader network. 

WHO ARE WE?  

In this role you will work across the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas (position based in Victor Harbor). 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?  

• Are you confident delivering advanced Occupational Therapy services with a high level of autonomy across diverse and complex clinical settings? Can you provide strong clinical leadership, guiding, mentoring and developing other clinicians while shaping best practice?
• Do you have the ability to influence service design and improvement, using evidence, data and strategic insight to drive better outcomes?
• Are you skilled at building meaningful partnerships and communicating effectively with stakeholders, teams and leadership at all levels?
• Do you actively pursue continuous learning, research and innovation to strengthen services and improve patient care?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…  

HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?  

You will……….  

WHERE AND HOW YOU WILL WORK 

Victor Harbor offers a coastal lifestyle like no other, combining ocean views, outdoor living, and a welcoming community. With a strong local services hub and a relaxed pace of life, it’s an ideal location for those seeking meaningful work alongside a change of scenery. For more information Discover Victor Harbor              

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 be immunised. Please contact the Enquiries Person for this position if you have any queries. Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy. Further information is in the application for to help guide you.   

• 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: 944080), or reach out to Alex Longbottom, Allied Health Team Leader on phone: 0421 838 355 or email: alex.longbottom@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 on Tuesday 10th November 2026 at 11.55 PM.   

Eligibility:  Open to Everyone   

Role Description - AHP3 P60605 CHSP Senior Occupational Therapist