Occupational Therapy - Community Aged Care - Casual Pool

• Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network 

• Casual opportunities exist across the Barossa, Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu 

• Salary: AHP1: $73,710 p.a. - $89,981 pa – paid on hourly rate + 25% Casual Loading 

• Salary: AHP2: $94,997 p.a. - $110,052 p.a. - paid on hourly rate + 25% Casual Loading 

• Casual Pool  

Appointment to this position will be at either AHP1 or AHP2 classification, commensurate with the applicant’s level of professional experience, demonstrated competence, and capacity to perform with increasing independence, clinical judgement, and complexity of practice as outlined in the role requirements. 

As a Casual Occupational Therapist you will provide client-centred, goal-oriented care to older people within the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network as part of a multidisciplinary Community Reablement team. The role focuses on supporting older adults across clinic, home, and residential settings to maintain and improve independence, reduce functional decline, and achieve meaningful goals through evidence-based, outcome-focused interventions aligned with Commonwealth aged care programs. 

You will have the opportunity to work across hospital avoidance, dementia care, and healthy ageing service streams, the Occupational Therapist delivers targeted reablement interventions that address a range of complex conditions including frailty, cognitive impairment, falls risk, and chronic health issues. Operating with increasing clinical autonomy, the role also contributes to supervision, team development, and collaborative care planning to strengthen workforce capability and ensure high-quality, integrated service delivery. 

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. 

We have multiple opportunities across all of our sites, from the Barossa to the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu Regions.  

• Do you have a strong commitment to improving independence, wellbeing, and quality of life for older people through person-centred, strengths-based and reablement-focused care.?  

• Are you genuinely motivated to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and contribute to shared goals, service improvement, and coordinated care across complex systems? 

• Do you have the drive to continually develop clinical expertise, reflect on practice, and actively engage in supervision, learning, and professional growth opportunities? 

• Are you passionate about contributing to better health outcomes through innovation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice in aged care and community health?  

• Do you have a strong sense of accountability, professionalism, and integrity in delivering safe, high-quality care while meeting organisational, funding, and documentation requirements? 

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

• Deliver client-centred, goal-oriented Occupational Therapy services to older people under Commonwealth funded aged care programs, using a wellness and reablement approach across home, clinic, and community settings.  

• Undertake comprehensive assessment, intervention, and care coordination within a multidisciplinary team, supporting complex caseloads including discharge planning, referrals, and ongoing goal-based rehabilitation.  

• Contribute to clinical leadership through supervision of allied health assistants and students, collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, and participation in service planning, education, and professional networks.  

• Ensure accurate documentation, reporting, and compliance with organisational, funding, and clinical governance requirements, including data collection, statistics, and use of relevant systems and policies.  

• Support continuous service improvement through participation in quality improvement, research, program development, and evaluation activities to enhance outcomes for older people and strengthen service delivery. 

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. 

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.  

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/ 

Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (job ref: 931870), or reach out to Adam Caruana, A/Restorative Aged Care Lead on Phone: 0466 585 251 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 on 23 March 2027 at 11:55PM

Eligibility:  Open to Everyone  

 20260312 Role Description - New - AHP1 - Occupational Therapy - Community Aged Care.docx

 20260312 Role Description - New - AHP2 - Occupational Therapy - Community Aged Care.docx

Advertised: 26 May 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 23 Mar 2027 11:55 PM Cen. Australia Daylight Time

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