Description
- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Salary: $108,347 - $116,216 p.a. (pro rata) plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP3
- Temporary Part-Time – working 18.75 hours per week, up to 3 October 2027
About the Role:
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is seeking a Senior Occupational Therapist – Hand Therapy to join our dynamic, expanding and supportive team. This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering highquality, specialist hand therapy services that make a meaningful difference to patients.
This senior clinical role is responsible for the development, coordination, delivery and evaluation of highquality occupational therapy services, with a specialised focus on hand therapy. You will provide expert clinical care to patients with a wide range of hand, wrist and upper limb conditions, supporting recovery, functional independence and return to meaningful daily activities.
In this role, you will deliver comprehensive hand therapy services including advanced assessment, treatment planning, rehabilitation and splint fabrication. Working closely with occupational therapy colleagues and a broad multidisciplinary team, you will optimise patient outcomes across acute and inpatient settings, while also providing specialist support to other clinical services as required.
As a highly skilled clinician, you will also provide clinical leadership within acute hospital services. You will support service development, contribute to quality improvement initiatives, and provide supervision and mentorship to less experienced staff, fostering clinical excellence and professional growth within the team.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
About You:
To be successful in this role, you will bring advanced clinical expertise and a strong commitment to delivering bestpractice care. You will possess extensive experience managing a broad range of hand therapy presentations, including postsurgical conditions requiring complex assessment, rehabilitation and splint fabrication, supported by comprehensive knowledge of orthopaedic and surgical hand conditions and recovery pathways.
Your success in this role will be underpinned by strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective consultation, negotiation, conflict resolution and the preparation of clear, accurate and timely clinical documentation. You are skilled in building and maintaining collaborative partnerships with patients, families, community services and healthcare providers within culturally diverse and multidisciplinary environments.
You also demonstrate strong leadership capability, including supervising and supporting staff, working autonomously and within interdisciplinary teams, managing competing priorities, adapting to changing service demands and contributing to program evaluation, service development and continuous quality improvement. A commitment to ongoing professional development and reflective practice aligns naturally with your approach to care.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your occupational therapy career and apply your specialist skills in a role that truly makes an impact, we invite you to apply.
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia.
NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 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.
Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways.
Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:
“My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care.”
“I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service.”
“I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support.”
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.
Incremental wage increases in-line with the Allied Health Professionals, Assistants and Psychologists Enterprise Agreement 2025
Access to experienced clinicians across a broad range of expertise, who are supportive of collegial sharing of skills and knowledge in different therapies and client presentations.
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.
In addition to this, other benefits of working as an Occupational Therapist in NALHN include:
- professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and under the current enterprise agreement staff are also eligible for a Professional Development Allowance and entitled to claim reimbursement of eligible professional development expenses to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations
- opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research
- regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals
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 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.
Check(s):
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Check (National Police Certificate) for general employment probity, vulnerable person-related employment and aged care sector screening – apply to any of the accredited bodies approved to offer a service direct to the public. Accreditation is provided by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. See our National Police Certificate accredited bodies page for links to lodge screening requests.
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: 936949
Enquiries:
Sergio Rivas-Dominguez
A/Senior Manager, Occupational Therapy
Phone: 0477 344 481
E-mail: sergio.rivas-dominguez@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
22 May 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
936949 - Senior Occupational Therapist - Hand Therapy - AHP3 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
For further information and to apply visit www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/careers and search for Job Ref: 936949
