SA Health
Job reference:
******
Location:
**** - MODBURY
Job status:
Short Term Contract
Eligibility:
Open to Everyone
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Modbury Hospital – MODBURY SA ****
Salary: $112,139 - $120,284 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP3
Temporary Full-Time up to 2 May ****
About the Role:
The Northern Adelaide Geriatric Service at Modbury Hospital is looking for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join a dedicated multidisciplinary team committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care for older adults across Adelaide's northern metropolitan region. This is a full-time, short-term contract opportunity through to 2 May ****.
Your Role in Geriatric Care
Working within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN), you will provide specialist occupational therapy assessment and intervention for complex geriatric presentations across inpatient and community-based settings. Your core responsibilities will include:
Conducting comprehensive functional, cognitive, and home assessments to support safe discharge planning and community reintegration
Delivering evidence-informed interventions focused on maintaining and restoring independence in older adults
Providing clinical supervision and professional support to junior OT staff and students
Collaborating with the broader multidisciplinary team — including medical, nursing, and allied health colleagues — to coordinate goal-directed care plans
What You'll Bring
Current AHPRA registration as an Occupational Therapist
Demonstrated experience in geriatric, aged care, or acute/subacute hospital settings
Strong skills in functional and cognitive assessment, including standardised tools relevant to older adult populations
Proven ability to lead clinical reasoning discussions and contribute to service-level quality improvement
Familiarity with SA Health clinical frameworks and the NALHN model of care, or the ability to apply them quickly
Effective communication skills across diverse patient groups and interdisciplinary teams
To be eligible for this position, you must have an Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia
About You:
In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.
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.
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 engaging 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."
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
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the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.
Modbury Hospital
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a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.
Mental Health Services
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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
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provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.
Primary Health Care Services
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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.
Incremental wage increases in-line with the Allied Health Professionals, Assistants and Psychologists Enterprise Agreement ****
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 a Senior 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):
Immunisation Risk for this position is
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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: ******
Enquiries:
Office Aged Care, Rehabilitation & Palliative Care
Phone: **************
E-mail: ******
Application Closing Date:
7 August ****
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Role Description and Further Information:
****** - Senior Occupational Therapist - Aged Care Rehabilitation & Palliative Care - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website
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How to apply for further information.
Applications close:
07/08/2026 11:55 PM
Flexibility Statement
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.

📌 Senior Occupational Therapist - Northern Adelaide Geriatric Service
🏢 Sa Health
📍 Adelaide